images that haunt us
Albert Witzel :: Vintage and original photograph of silent film actress May Allison. A fashionable pictorialist offering. Allison stuns in an lavish fur coat that reveal just a hint of her embroidered silk stockings. This is a beautifully composed antique portrait from Hollywood’s early years,
ca. late 1910′s – early 1920′s (Metro Pictures ink stamp on verso) / src: eBay
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Thelma Todd Original Vintage 1930′s photograph signed with personal note on verso: “With pleasant memories of a delightful afternoon. Most sincerely, ThelmaTodd” / src: eBay
Jack Freulich :: Vintage photograph of lovely blonde stage and screen actress Doris Nolan. Art deco portrait of Nolan in a wide brimmed canopy hat and a swimsuit, shot for Universal Pictures, California, 1930′s (stamp of photographer and Universal Studios on verso) / src: eBay
Myrna Loy getting did by her hairdresser, 1930′s / via silver-screen-nostalgia
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Vintage photograph of Hollywood’s first scream queen Fay Wray. A dramatically composed portrait shows a distressed Wray clutching the sides of her head for the pre-code drama “Behind the Make-Up” (1930).
Handwritten notation on verso. / source: eBay
Evelyn Laye autographed photograph, 1930′s /src: eBay
A very young Loretta Young (1913-2000) with doll head, 1920′s / via mudwerks
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Loretta Young in The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929) / source: IMDb
Florence Vidor and Hedda Hopper, in stylish flapper fashions – from their ornate gowns with jewels to their bobbed hairstyles. A wonderful old jazz age still from silent Hollywood for promotional use for silent comedy One Woman to Another (Paramount Pictures, 1927) / source
This delightful Golden Age of Hollywood art-deco portrait captures Marion Davies in a carefree and casual style, riding a bicycle best described on press snipe: “A bicycle built for two, Marion Davies and Lawrence Gray pedal an old tandem in ‘The Gay ‘90′s’ in which she is starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under Harry Beaumont’s direction.” The film would be re-titled “The Floradora Girl” (1930) before its release. / source: Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay
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