Marlene Dietrich. Morocco, 1930
Tag: portraying
Marilyn Stafford Edith Piaf, Paris 1950
“I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.” Edith Piaf
Miriam Marmein, donning a “ship” costume and headdress,
posing for a portrait by the artist Edith Bry in January 1927. Miriam was one of the three Marmein Sisters, noted dancers and mimes who started performing in 1924. / source: NY Times
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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Albert Witzel :: Carole Lombard, ca 1925 / via thecarolelomabardarchive
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:: Actress Monica Vitti holding up a magnifying glass in front of one eye as she poses for her role as a spy in the movie thriller
Modesty Blaise, directed by Joseph Losey, 1966. | src The Life Images Collection-Getty Images | via
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Virginia Woolf, 1926
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