
Melbourne Spurr :: Russian American actress Alla Nazimova (1879 – 1945) stars in the First National film ‘My Son’, 1925. General Photographic Agency / src: Getty Images
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Melbourne Spurr :: Russian American actress Alla Nazimova (1879 – 1945) stars in the First National film ‘My Son’, 1925. General Photographic Agency / src: Getty Images
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Alla
Nazimova in The Red Lantern (Albert Capellani, 1919) / src: Nazimova Society
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Alla
Nazimova in The Red Lantern (Albert Capellani, 1919) / src: Nazimova Society
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Herman Mishkin :: Stage and screen actress Lenore Ulric as Lien Wha in “The Son-Daughter”, 1919 / src Museum of the city of New York
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A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the South Sea island of Kolpee in a scene still from the Fox production A Woman There Was (directed by J. Gordon Edwards, 1919) /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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“Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp.” Quoted from source.
Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film
The New York Peacock (Fox Films). /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Underwood & Underwood :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: “William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corporation”. /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Stage, silent era actress and vamp Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek, 1917 (Fox Film publicity photograph) /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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