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Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891

Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library
Napoleon Sarony :: French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, New York, 1891. Cabinet card. | src Harvard Library

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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

Lina Cavalieri vintage card

Léopold-Émile Reutlinger :: Italian Opera Singer Lina Cavalieri, aka Lina Prokofiev, 1900s. Reutlinger card nº 1188. | src retro-vintage-photography | originally posted on tumblr

Lucy Doraine by Binder

Lucy Doraine by Atelier Binder. Ross Verlag postcard / src virtual-history / postcards

Hungarian film actress of the silent era Lucy Doraine, born as Ilona Kovács, aka Mrs Mihaly Kertesz as she married Hungarian director, Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz). Ross Verlag vintage photo postcard, 1920s / src virtual-history / postcards

Sylvie par Henri Manuel · 1909

Henri Manuel (1874–1947) ~ Sylvie, aka Louise Sylvie. French postcard by Photo N.D., dated 1-11-1909 | src flickr

 Sylvie (1883–1970) was a French actress, who played supporting parts in French and Italian films from 1912 till 1965. In her last film, she finally played the leading role.

La Sylphe · dancer suffrage

La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL

G. Hoffmann by Frank C. Bangs

Frank C. Bangs :: Gertrude Hoffmann, Salomé dance, nº 7, 1908. Vintage postcards. Publisher Theatre Magazine Co. | src NYPL
Frank C. Bangs :: Gertrude Hoffmann, Salomé dance, nº 1 & 2, 1908. Vintage postcards. Publisher Theatre Magazine Co. | src NYPL
Frank C. Bangs :: Gertrude Hoffmann, Salomé dance, nº 5, 1908. Vintage postcards. Publisher Theatre Magazine Co. | src NYPL

Valeska Gert, 1918

Atelier Leopold :: Valeska Gert, 1918. German card (Munich). Collection: Didier Hanson. | src Flickr
“Jewish cabaret artist Waleska Gert (1892-1978) and her dark, aquiline features became famous in Berlin with her radical modern dances. She was also active as an artists’ model and appeared in several classics of the Weimar cinema. After a comeback in Fellini’s Giulietta degli spiriti / Juliet of the Spirits (1965), she worked with the film makers of the New German Cinema of the 1970s.” (quoted from source)

Cats typewriting ca. 1910

I’m Too Tired to Write, 1911 [vintage postcard © B.J. (511)] / src fine art america
Mentor typewriter and cat, ca. 1910 (’Tippfräulein’ written on top of the photograph) | src retro-vintage-photo
Mentor typewriter and furry cat, ca. 1910 (’Tippfräulein’) | src VanScribed
I’m Too Tired to Write, 1911 [vintage postcard © B.J. (511)] / src blogspot
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