Tag: silent era actress

Vera Kholodnaya postcards

Vera Kholodnaya. Portrait, profile to the left, in a light kerchief tied around the head like a turban, with long earrings consisting of three large circles. Between 1914 and 1919. Postcard from the collection of Natalia Balachenkova. | src Presidential Library
Vera Kholodnaya. Portrait, profile to the left, in a light kerchief tied around the head like a turban, with long earrings consisting of three large circles. Between 1914 and 1919. Postcard from the collection of Natalia Balachenkova. | src Presidential Library
Russian silent cinema actress Vera Kholodnaya (aka ‘Queen of Screen’). Russian postcard, nº 47. Collection Didier Hanson. | src Flickr
Russian silent cinema actress Vera Kholodnaya (aka ‘Queen of Screen’). Russian postcard, nº 47. Collection Didier Hanson. | src Flickr
Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya (1893-1919), 1917 (card nº131). Portrait, profile to the right. Postcard from the collection of Natalia Balachenkova. | src Presidential Library
Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya (1893-1919), 1917 (card nº131). Portrait, profile to the right. Postcard from the collection of Natalia Balachenkova. | src Presidential Library

Alla Nazimova by Hoover

Hoover Art Co. :: Alla Nazimova, published in Picture Play Magazine, March 1920

Caption reads : “Nazimova is seen as a waif of the streets in one picture and a foreign dancer in the next; obviously, neither custom or anything else can stale her infinite variety”.

Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of Alla Nazimova, 1920s. | src Flickr

Barbara La Marr, 1923

Hoover Art Co. :: Barbara La Marr, 1923. Published in Photoplay Magazine, May 1923. Caption reads: “Once again we present the orchidiarious Barbara La Marr, highly promising femminine possibility for screen stardom. Barbara has been dazzling filmdom since she played Milady in Douglas Fairbank’s ‘The Three Musketeers’.” | src  The Museum of Modern Art Library at Internet Archives