Category: film still, publicity still

Mary Carlisle in Madam Satan

Mary Carlisle as ‘Little Bo Peep’ (uncredited), one of a group of dancers dressed as turbines or generators (costume probably designed by Adrian), for the ballet sequence entitled Ballet Mécanique, in a pseudo pagan ceremony dedicated to electricity starring Theodore Kosloff as ‘Electricity’ in Madam Satan (Cecil B. DeMille, 1930) | src irenebrination

Nazimova interview, 1926

Nazimova interviewed by Adela Rogers St. Johns for Photoplay magazine, October 1926. | src internet archive

“I did ‘Salome’ as a purgative”, declares Nazimova. “The trash I had played made me sick with myself. I wanted something so different, so fanciful, so artistic, that it would take the taste out of my mouth”. Costume designs for Salome were Natacha Rambova’s (including the iconic wig).

Margit Symo, 1942

Margit Symo in Die Sache mit Styx / The Affairs of Styx (Karl Anton, 1942. German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, nº A 3583/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Tobis. | src Truus, Bob & Jan on flickr

La Jana in Stern von Rio, 1940

La Jana as Concha in Stern von Rio / Star of Rio (Karl Anton, 1940). German postcard by Ross Verlag, nº A 2504/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Tobis. | src Truus, Bob & Jan on Flickr

Menschen vom Varieté (card)

La Jana in ‘Menschen vom Varieté‘ directed by Josef von Báky, 1939. German postcard by Ross Verlag, nº A 2248/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Märkische / Panorama / Schneider, Südost. | src Truus, Bob & Jan too

Menschen vom Varieté, 1939

La Jana in a dancing pose. Scene from the movie ‘Menschen vom Varieté‘ directed by Hungarian director Josef von Báky, Germany – Hungary, 1939. Film Production: Hunnia Filmgyár and Pictura Film. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920)

Paul Wegener and Pola Negri (as Yannaia, a dancer) in Sumurun (aka One Arabian Night, Ernst Lubitsch, 1920). German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin. Photo: Union Film. Publicity still for the film. | src Truus, Bob & Jan too