Tag: film

Betty Compson is Tillie de Vamp

Betty Compson as Tillie de Vamp in an Al Christie’s comedy: Hist! At Six O’clock (1916)
“The Vamp Primes Herself with Poison Gas”. Betty Compson as the vampire in Hist! At Six O’clock”. Motion Picture News, December 1916. | src internet archive
Eddie Barry and Betty Compson in a Christie Comedy of the 1913 vintage.
Betty Compson in in a Christy diversion entitled “Hist at Six o’clock”. December, 1919 issue of Photoplay magazine

Leni Riefenstahl in Das blaue Licht

Leni Riefenstahl in Das blaue Licht – Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten (La lumière bleue, The Blue Light), 1932. Regie: Leni Riefenstahl und Béla Balázs. Uncredited set photographer. | src Ader

Napierkowska in Les Vampires

Stacia Napierkowska in «Les vampires» Episode 2: The Ring that Kills (dir. Louis Feuillade, 1915-1916). Pathé Frères. | src IMdB
if this link in some time in the future happens to be broken, an alternative version of this wonderful sequence is hosted here

Ballgown for “Forbidden Fruit”

Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: [Actress in ballgown, “Forbidden Fruit”], 1920. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Bebe Daniels in Affairs of Anatol

1920s
Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: Bebe Daniels in elaborate robe, 1921 [production still from “Affairs of Anatol”], 1921. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss :: [Bebe Daniels sitting on floor by telephone, "Affairs of Anatol"], 1921. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss :: [Bebe Daniels sitting on floor by telephone in “Affairs of Anatol”], 1921. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum
Karl Struss :: Bebe Daniels [production stills from the movie “Affairs of Anatol”], 1921. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum

Dorothy Dalton in hat, 1920

Karl Struss (1886-1981) :: [Dorothy Dalton in hat, “Fool’s Paradise”]; 1920. Gelatin silver print. | src Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Karl Struss Collection