Tag: silent era

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

Bug-eyed Fortune Teller

André-Wladimir Reybas (cinematographer, uncredited) :: Portrait of Andrée Rolane in ‘L’Occident’ (An Eye for an Eye) directed by Henri Fescourt (1928). Andrée Rolane is Fathima, Hassina’s little sister, ca. 1927. Silver gelatin bromide. | image src eBay
Bug-eyed Gypsy Fortune Teller (Seer), 1920s [eBay]