Category: role portrait, Rollenporträt, characterization

Musidora as Irma Vep

Publicity shot of Musidora wearing her iconic maillot from the 1915 film Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade (ca. 1915) | src IMdB
Henri Manuel :: Photographie de Musidora (Irma Vep) allongée. (ca. 1915) | src La Cinémathèque Française | related post

Dietrich on film set, 1939

German-American actress Marlene Dietrich (in costume as Frenchy) bathes her feet in a pail on the set of ‘Destry Rides Again’ (directed by George Marshall), California, 1939. | src Getty Images

Dietrich by Hurrell, 1937

George Hurrell :: German-born actress Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) wearing an exotic headdress designed by Travis Banton for the film ‘Angel’, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, circa 1937. | src Getty Images

Blonde Venus, 1932

Marlene Dietrich. French postcard by EDUG, nº 1073. Photo by Paramount. Publicity still for Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) | src Truus, Bob and Jan

Musidora as Allegria, 1920

Musidora as Allegria (Pour don Carlos). Lectures pour tous (Paris). November 1920
Musidora dans le rôle d’Allegria (Pour don Carlos). Lectures pour tous: revue universelle et populaire illustrée. Hachette (Paris). Edi-Monde (Paris). nov. 1920. | src BnF

Arabesque, 1925

White Studio :: Bela Lugosi and Hortense Alden in Arabesque, 1925. Reverse displays photo credit ink stamp and a descriptive caption label: Hortense Alden (the Bedouin) and Bela Lugosi (the Sheik), whom she lures to his destruction in “Arabesque”, a modern comedy of manners at the National Theatre. | src Heritage Auctions

Madam Satan publicity, 1930s

Kay Johnson in press material for “Madam Satan” (MGM, Cecil B. DeMille, 1930). Illustrierter Film-Kurier, nº 1647, 1930s. | src twitter