Tag: 1930s

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

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