Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod (née Zelle) better known by her stage name: Mata Hari. Dutch exotic belly dancer and spy during World War I. Press photo. Probably early 1910′s / src: eBay
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Tag: exotism
Exotic Flapper Dancers, 1924. / src: eBay
Clarence Sinclair Bull :: Portrait of Greta Garbo for Mata Hari,
directed by George Fitzmaurice, 1931
/ source: the red list
Paul Popper :: Portrait of Czech soprano singer Maria Jeritza
(1887-1982) wearing an ornate costume as she appears in a production of
Puccini’s ‘Turandot’, circa 1926. (Popperfoto / Getty Images) / related post, here
Franz Xaver Setzer :: Maria Jeritza as Turandot, 1926.
The last of Puccini’s operas, Turandot is set in long-ago China. It is
the story of Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the forbidding
Princess Turandot. / src: Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Clarence Sinclair Bull :: Swedish born actress Greta Garbo in costume for Mata Hari, directed by George Fitzmaurice, 1931 (Getty Images) / source: vumag.pl and GettyImages
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Anna May Wong in Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932). Unknown photographer, probably
Richard Walling, still photographer (uncredited)
/ src: IMDb
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