Category: role portrait, Rollenporträt, characterization

Kay Johnson as Madam Satan

Kay Johnson photographed by Manatt in Madam Satan as Angela / Madam Satan. Ball gown designed by Adrian. Lost Hollywood Collection (MGM, Cecil B. DeMille, 1930). Still. Reverse displays photo credit ink stamp and descriptive typed label. Printed on double weight paper. | src and hi-res Heritage Auctions

Madam Satan: film still (1930)

Still from Cecil B. DeMille’s extravagant 1930 musical Madam Satan. Kay Johnson as Angela Brooks (Madam Satan) at the ball for a party of socialites aboard a dirigible anchored over Central Park (in a thunderstorm). | src MoMA

Kay Johnson as Madam Satan, 1930

Kay Johnson (Angela Brooks) wearing a ball gown designed by Adrien in Madam Satan (Cecil B. DeMille, 1930). Photographed by George Hurrell. | src twitter

Roshanara by Genthe, 1917

Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Olive Craddock (1894-1926), aka Roshanara, 23 March 1917. Glass negative (detail)
Arnold Genthe ~ Olive Craddock (1894-1926), aka Roshanara, 23 March 1917. Glass negative | src Library of Congress