Information:  - Pauline Frederick (August 12, 1883  September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.  - The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized sound, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline of the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the film, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson, is based on a play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, adapted from one of his short stories "The Day of Atonement".  - May McAvoy (September 8, 1899  April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era. Some of her major roles include Laura Pennington in "The Enchanted Cottage", Esther in "", and Mary Dale in "The Jazz Singer".  - Marie Prevost (November 8, 1896  January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.  - Hollywood (, informally Tinseltown ) is an ethnically diverse, densely populated, relatively low-income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U.S. film industry, including several of its historic studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it.  - Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".  - Three Women , also known as Die Frau , die Freundin und die Dirne ( 1924 ) is an American silent drama film starring May McAvoy , Pauline Frederick , and Marie Prevost , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , and based on the novel by Yolande Maree ( Iolanthe Mares ) .    Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'instance of' with 'silent film'.
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three women