^^^Frances Farmer btw
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of fucked-up ladies on display here.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
In life or in the pics?
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
luise rainer http://www.goatview.com/ranier1.jpg
― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
In life. The pics are gorgeous.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Some of em do look pretty fucked up (I imagine some of them were heh.)
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Luise Rainer looks like a beautiful actress from the future.
― Alba, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Karen Morley
http://data-allocine.blogomaniac.fr/mdata/5/4/3/Z20060810095113163248345/img/photo_1225.jpg
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/Life/lifebooks/hepburn/images/cover_big.jpg
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
That one's maybe early '40s, I'm thinking, 'cause of the hairstyle.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Tallulah Bankhead
http://www.altfg.com/Stars/actorsb/bankhead-tallulah.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Marlene Dietrich
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1248/1241944035_dfdc2fc685.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
A good Tallulah Bankhead one is on this cover: http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/covers/all/5/1/9780141187815H.jpg
― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Ann Dvorak: http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3265073.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DViewImages%26k%3D2%26d%3D10276273D480F6D89C3BEBDFAD8F46FAA55A1E4F32AD3138
Dorothy Mackaill: http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3267494.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=10276273D480F6D86B7623D58BF1C447A55A1E4F32AD3138
― Melissa W, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Ann Dvorak (trying again): http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3265073.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=10276273D480F6D89C3BEBDFAD8F46FAA55A1E4F32AD3138
― Melissa W, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
we got this far without a picture of Joan????
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/177393_large.jpg
― zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/90731_large.jpg
― zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
-- zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:02 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
OUTSIDE, COUNTESS.
AS LONG AS THEY HAVE SIDEWALKS, YOU'VE GOT A JOB!!
(SLAM)
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnH_XnUIyxs&feature=related
Joan + Glenda = <3<3<3 squared.
How did they learn to talk so fast?
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
As an aside, I wonder if anyone has ever seen the (reportedly dreadful) "God's Gift to Women" (1931) in which Louise Brooks stars alongside Joan Blondell, and they even get into a scrap with each other in one scene?
http://www.silentstar.com/web/sites/www.silentstar.com.web/files/images/1931%20Gods%20Gift%20To%20Women.jpg
Pffff.
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Beautiful 1925 vintage 8"x10" promo glossy of Corinne Griffith that I just bought off ebay for seven ninety-nine:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3098/2742535726_ebcaba55fd_o.jpg
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice one!
― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
mary astor http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/1332443951_b287694094.jpg?v=0
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Winifred Lenihan is the most stunning of all of these - the rest seem very obviously tied to their time, whereas she could have stepped out of any decade.
― emil.y, Friday, 8 August 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, here she is again!
http://www.condenaststore.com/VanityFair/ProdImages/VanityFair/CN00033141_LARGE.JPG
― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
that's less overtly stylized, less glam, but it fairly screams 1920s to me
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Pola Negri:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3296358.jpg
― Melissa W, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny, Norma Shearer always looks very modern to me, even if the acting sometimes betrays that.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
theda bara http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1096/bara3.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wfu.edu/~woodaljn/ant260/theda.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
joan bennett http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir_image/scarlet.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
marguerite churchill http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/cheesecake/margueritechurchill1.jpg
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:32 (fifteen years ago) link
joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:33 (fifteen years ago) link
hedy lamarr http://venus.provocateuse.com/images/photos/hedy_lamarr_01.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
well, until 1938 http://www.classichollywoodbios.com/Images/Joan%20&%20Constance%20Bennett%20Images/Joan%20Bennett.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Hedy Lamarr: http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3207288.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=C037F202D99E3099FF3672C9DC4E5F38A55A1E4F32AD3138
― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
proto-goth Catherine Hessling
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/renoir1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/renoir5.jpg
― zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Huge in her day, but now forgotten movie star Dolores Costello, weirdly contemporary looking image, could have been taken yesterday, I think. it's from the late '20's:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/9.jpg
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
v v difficult to find a pic of Pola that gives an impression of what she looked like in motion. in stills she can look very masculine, absolutely not the case in her films:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/7.jpg
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
there's this picture of hepburn by Horst back when she was just starting out and she's all curled up in a chair all legs and arms and looking very modern and sophisticated -- i only saw it once at a gallery in chelsea that was selling vintage prints for god-knows how many thousands of dollars and I haven't seen it since.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Toby Wing, one of my favourites!
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/eal/davidsshields/personal/offner-toby.wing.jpg
being serenaded by Dick Powell in "42nd Street":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOerxVCr1Ys
as a cactus flower in this unbelievable number from "Murder at the Vanities" in 1934.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnySJxE_XQA
I sort of remember reading some comment that she made in which she said she'd had a better time in the depression than most because she'd been paid to pout and look pretty and basically do nothing.
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm very surprised by the lack of the original Platinum Blonde, Jean Harlow
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/arts/gallery/2008/feb/01/photography1/Jean-Harlow-28.jpg
As lady Astor is alleged to have said "You spell it with a silent 't'."
― Stone Monkey, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Jessie Matthews:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_03/JessieMatthewsDM_468x444.jpg
Very, very hot, but so so fucked up. Poor bloody woman.
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Alice White, briefly a big star in the early sound era:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bdtuKKCTCf4/R2WZ7mNgbSI/AAAAAAAAEFM/PYGX49FRRXY/s1600/Alice%2BWhite%2B-%2BP2.jpg
Tune to listen to whilst perusing thread:
http://www.box.net/shared/static/k2vu1l10ve.mp3
― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2286103313_52aae9e42b.jpg
Miriam Hopkins, again.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
the rest seem very obviously tied to their time
you make it sound like that's a bad thing
― Edward III, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3142959.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=34F6DC9BDA297B9EC8B2C56A0C2A78C3A55A1E4F32AD3138
MH with Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall in Trouble in Paradise.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Those glamor shots don't convey how funny she was.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh, Alice White, good call. She was funny, too.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Ruan Lingyu
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/mkerpan/china/goddess/shen03.png
(If you want to order "The Goddess" off amazon, search for the book, which comes with a DVD. Searching under movies only yields a DVD-r bootleg copy.)
― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 9 August 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I just missed the mention, but it's legitimately insane that Paulette Goddard wouldn't have shown up here yet.
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Goddard,%20Paulette/Annex/Annex%20-%20Goddard,%20Paulette%20(North%20West%20Mounted%20Police)_02.jpg
― Gewgaws for Meemaw (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 September 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
Caroll Borland was pretty much only in Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire but every photo/still of her is amazing.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AeJ9OBYNZ4s/VCpxyH5WAJI/AAAAAAAAWko/OChY0lxPIZc/s1600/cb5.png
― Gewgaws for Meemaw (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 September 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Lilian Bond was a freakin' knockout (she and Gloria Stewart were very crushworthy in The Old Dark House).
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CLu8_jFPNZ4/SJo10fM2veI/AAAAAAAABug/QtiTVCUJh0E/s1600-h/Picture+Play+September+31+-+Lillian+Roth.jpg
― Gewgaws for Meemaw (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 September 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
In tribute to my most recently watched films: Billie Dove
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/looking-for-mabel/NEW/LFM%20007%20Billie%20Dove.jpg
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
Marie Prevost
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Marie_Prevost_The_Blue_Book_of_the_Screen.jpg/220px-Marie_Prevost_The_Blue_Book_of_the_Screen.jpg
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Mae Clarke
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM3Mzk0NzUyM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzYxNjU2._V1_UY317_CR14,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Mary Brian
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/biographies/b/brian_mary/brian_mary.jpg
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Maude Adams wasn't strictly a '20s/'30s actress (she was the first actress to play Peter Pan on Broadway in the '00s; she retired in the '10s to work for General Electric, teach drama, and generally have her shit together, but she briefly returned to stage acting in the early '30s), but this is too great a portrait not to share:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2mdpjeh.jpg
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:30 (seven years ago)
man, I spent like a week trying to remember who this was before I realized I'd posted about her. she's still probably the most beautiful person of the past ≈ 200 years
https://i.imgur.com/9d5fCuL.jpg
― shaped like cats and postmen (unregistered), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
Damn, the second and third photos especially.
Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX (1929) pic.twitter.com/YRTR9lxdwo— Anne Billson (@AnneBillson) January 3, 2019
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 4 January 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link