images that haunt us
“Mack Sennett Girl,” circa 1919. Actress Marvel Rea, one of film producer Mack Sennett’s well-rounded “bathing girls”, in somewhat mouldy National Photo glass negative. From a series of pictures using cars and tires as props. 1 src and hi-res Shorpy
Probably edited from this photograph. [zoom in detail of hands’ retouching]
“Mack Sennett girls in costume”, circa 1919. Sennett, an early producer of silent films, was known as the King of Comedy for his slapstick reels. National Photo Company Collection. | src and hi-res Shorpy
Nelson Evans :: Myrtle Reeves, Lillian Langston and Edith Roberts posed on rock in water for Mack Sennett Productions, LA, ca. 1918
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Elinor Field, Phyllis Haver, Marvel Rea, Vera Steadman, Mack Swain, and Gloria Swanson in The Pullman Bride (Paramount Pictures, 1917) src IMDb
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