Jane Cowl as Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1924 / src: Museum of the city of New York
Tag: characterization
Mae West as Catherine II in “Catherine Was Great”, 1944 / src: Museum of the city of New York
James Wallace Pondelicek :: The Sword. “Mlle. Theo Hewes, assisted by M. Symanski, in a picturesque Oriental dance developed from an old Japanese legend”. Published in Shadowland. January 1923 issue.
/ src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section
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“Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.” Quoted from source.
Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film
The New York Peacock (Fox Films). /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Vandamm Studio :: Tallulah Bankhead in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1937 / src: Museum of the city of New York
Jane Cowl as Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1924 / src: Museum of the city of New York
Max Munn Autrey :: Fifi D’Orsay, aka Mademoiselle Fifi
(born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier), 1920′s
/ src:
Witzel Studios at HZG
:: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production
of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: cerca de la cerca and The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”
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