Tag: film still, publicity still

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

Nazimova interview, 1926

Nazimova interviewed by Adela Rogers St. Johns for Photoplay magazine, October 1926. | src internet archive

“I did ‘Salome’ as a purgative”, declares Nazimova. “The trash I had played made me sick with myself. I wanted something so different, so fanciful, so artistic, that it would take the taste out of my mouth”. Costume designs for Salome were Natacha Rambova’s (including the iconic wig).

Menschen vom Varieté, 1939

La Jana in a dancing pose. Scene from the movie ‘Menschen vom Varieté‘ directed by Hungarian director Josef von Báky, Germany – Hungary, 1939. Film Production: Hunnia Filmgyár and Pictura Film. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress

Polish actress Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress (Rowland V. Lee, 1928). German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, nº 3814/1, 1928-1929. Photo © Paramount.  | src Truus, Bob & Jan on Flickr

Dance of Freedom, 1914

A still from the archival video of Florence Noyes’s Dance of Freedom. Photo courtesy Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, Library and Archives Canada. “Movement was more than a metaphor for the fight for women’s suffrage—dancers played a real role, most notably Florence Fleming Noyes, who performed her riveting solo Dance of Freedom in 1914 to embody the struggle for women’s rights.” quoted from source. | src Dance magazine