Mae Busch, 1920s
Tag: early hollywood
Albert Witzel :: Vintage and original photograph of silent film actress May Allison. A fashionable pictorialist offering. Allison stuns in an lavish fur coat that reveal just a hint of her embroidered silk stockings. This is a beautifully composed antique portrait from Hollywood’s early years,
ca. late 1910′s – early 1920′s (Metro Pictures ink stamp on verso) / src: eBay
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Vintage sexy pin-up photograph of silent film vamp Dorothy Revier being served up to viewers on a platter. A tantalizing portrait of the actress for her film Sinner’s Parade (1928)
On dorso: Culver Pictures Inc., NY. The press snipe reads: “A DISH FIT FOR A KING … Dorothy Revier is the star attraction of the night club in Columbia’s SINNERS’ PARADE.” source
Alfred Eisenstaedt :: Marlene Dietrich wearing tuxedo, top hat and holding a cigarette at a ball for the foreign press in 1929. Evoking her role as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, a cabaret singer, in ‘Morocco’, directed by
Josef von Sternberg, 1930 / via The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Publicity photo of American actress Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, 1906 – 1987). She is best remembered for her role as Brigid O’Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941).
Arthur F. Rice
:: Alla Nazimova as Marguerite Gautier in
Camille (1921), directed by
Ray C. Smallwood / src: LGBT History project
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Alla Nazimova in Salomé, 1922.
The film’s sets and costumes, including the iconic wig, were designed by Natacha Rambova, who was married to film star Rudolph Valentino.
/ src: Alla Nazimova
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