
Musidora (Affiche)

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In this cigarette card […] she is dressed in her famous costume from Les vampires. It’s a typical outfit worn by the thieves operating in hotels. […] In French, those thieves are called ‘souris d’hôtel’. ‘Souricette’ being a kind of diminutive form of ‘souris’, maybe that’s where the publishers got their idea.” Quoted from Flickr



Fantaisiste aux Folies Bergère, portrait dédicacé et signé « Pour Milon, Musidora, dans ce coffré [sic] précieux, il y a un maillot de milon », vers 1912. Photographie par Waléry, tirage argentique d’époque (ovale), monté sur un carton du studio, signature de l’auteur sur l’image. | src Artprecium : 370 photographies de cinema pour tous 7e. edition / lot 11: Mlle. Musidora

The image above is also hosted in wikimedia, there the image is dated 1912 and credited to Lucien Waléry.



