Tag: film

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

Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920)

Paul Wegener and Pola Negri (as Yannaia, a dancer) in Sumurun (aka One Arabian Night, Ernst Lubitsch, 1920). German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin. Photo: Union Film. Publicity still for the film. | src Truus, Bob & Jan too

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

G. Holder and Jane Seymour

British-born American actress Jane Seymour, (b. Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg), and Trinidadian actor Geoffrey Holder in a scene from the movie Live and Let Die, by British director Guy Hamilton, in which they play the roles of Solitaire and Baron Samedi respectively; in a dance step, he immobilizes her clasping her wrists on the sea shore. 1973. (Photo by Mondadori) | src and hi-res Getty Images

Nini Theilade in costume, 1935

I 1935 var Nini Theilade som 20-årig med i Hollywood-filmen ’En Skærsommernatsdrøm’. Hun lavede koreografien, iscenesatte og dansede hovedpartiet som den levende alf. Arkivfoto: Scanpix. | In 1935, at the age of 20, Nini Theilade starred in the Hollywood film ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. She did the choreography, staged and danced the main part as the living elf. Stock Photo: Scanpix. | src and hi-res BT Danmark