Valeska Suratt, 1911

Apeda Studio :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist’s model who falls in love with an American student. Original caption: “Valeska Suratt in The Red Rose, a new musical comedy by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith, music by Robert Hood Bowers, direction of Lee Harrison. Garrick Theater, May 1.” | src Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research 

Karl Andreyevich Fischer**

:: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production

of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: cerca de la cerca and The New York Public Library

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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Tilla Durieux as Circe, ca. 1912

Franz von Stuck :: Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, ca. 1912. | source adski-kafeteri
Franz or Mary von Stuck ~ Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, cf. 1912. © Belvedere, Vienna | src Sin and SecessionAlain.R.Truong
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Franz or Mary von Stuck :: Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, cf. 1912. © Belvedere, Vienna | Cropped view as it appears in the painting
Franz or Mary von Stuck ~ Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, cf. 1912. © Belvedere, Vienna | Cropped view as it appears in the painting
Franz or Mary von Stuck :: Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, cf. 1912. © Belvedere, Vienna | DETAIL
Franz or Mary von Stuck ~ Study of Tilla Durieux as Circe, cf. 1912. © Belvedere, Vienna | DETAIL (close-up)
Fotografie von Franz oder Mary von Stuck, die Tilla Durieux in der Rolle der Circe zeigt. Das Foto diente als Vorlage für das Gemälde “Tilla Durieux als Circe”, ca. 1912. © Sammlung Museum Villa Stuck via wikimedia

Sylvie par Henri Manuel · 1909

Henri Manuel (1874–1947) ~ Sylvie, aka Louise Sylvie. French postcard by Photo N.D., dated 1-11-1909 | src flickr

 Sylvie (1883–1970) was a French actress, who played supporting parts in French and Italian films from 1912 till 1965. In her last film, she finally played the leading role.