Evelyn Brent in The Last Command, directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1928 / via mudwerks
Tag: old hollywood
Marlene Dietrich at a premiere in Hollywood, 1932. Uncredited photographer. / via wehadfacesthen
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Clara Bow by Ira L. Hill
Max Munn Autrey :: Pre-code actress Fifi D’Orsay. Fifi is an exciting jazz age cavewoman in this costumed flapper keybook still. Late 1920’s
The press snipe reads: “THE STONE AGE WOMAN may have been a sweet mamma but there can be no doubt about her being a wild one. Here she is, loaded for bear – or should it read ‘bare.’ So far as fashion goes, she’s dressed in skins – we’re not referring to her own! The skirt isn’t much shorter than the skirts one saw until recently, and while the necklace is made of shell it was probably the smartest thing ever shown on Neanderthal City’s ‘Rue de la Paix’ – or Pay, as the stone age husband more likely spelled it. – Posed by Fifi Dorsay, Fox star.”
source: Grapefruit Moon Gallery at eBay
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Vintage photograph of silent film superstar and woman who helped shape Hollywood and movies, Mary Pickford. The eternally youthful actress is a childish ragamuffin in this publicity photograph for Pickford’s own production company’s silent drama, “Sparrows” (1926) via
/ original source: eBay
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John Springer :: Actresses Lillian Roth and Frances Dee
(right)
dressed as lovely mermaids of the sea, 1930′s (Photo by John Springer Collection / Corbis via Getty Images) / via silver-screen-nostalgia
Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish in the silent motion picture Orphans of the Storm
directed by
D.W. Griffith, 1921
un regard oblique 