Category: 1920s

Lynn Fontanne, Strange Interlude

Edward J. Steichen :: British-born American-based actress Lynn Fontanne (born Lillie Louise Fontanne) as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O'Neill’s controversial nine-act drama Strange Interlude, 1928. Gelatin silver print. | src Curiator
Edward J. Steichen :: British-born American-based actress Lynn Fontanne (born Lillie Louise Fontanne) as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O'Neill’s controversial nine-act drama Strange Interlude, 1928. Gelatin silver print. | src Curiator
Edward J. Steichen :: British-born American-based actress Lynn Fontanne (born Lillie Louise Fontanne) as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O’Neill’s controversial nine-act drama Strange Interlude, 1928. Gelatin silver print. | src Curiator

Karsavina in Scheherazade

Emil Otto Hoppé :: Tamara Karsavina as Zobeide in ‘Schéhérazade’, London, England, 1920 | src  e.o.hoppe/photoshelter/ballets.russes

Blythe in Chu-Chin-Chow · 1923

James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. Motion Picture Classic, January 1924 | src internet archive
Betty Blythe in Chu-Chin-Chow (Herbert Wilcox, 1923). Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, nº 345. Photo: James Abbe. | src Flickr

The film was based on the musical Chu Chin Chow (a reinterpretation of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) by Oscar Asche that ran in London from 1916 to 1921 and was shot at a studio lot in Steglitz in Southwestern Berlin.

James Abbe ~ The Slave Girl. Betty Blythe poses in the role of Dugget Flower in ‘Chu Chin Chow’. MPC, January 1924 (full page) | src internet archive

Rose Dolores, 1921

Baron Adolf de Meyer :: Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose Wilkinson) with a crystal ball wearing a wedding dress, 1921. Shot for Vogue Magazine. | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco