Groovy photos of beautiful 1920s/30s actresses...

Betty Compson:

http://film.virtual-history.com/cigcard/177/large/0030.jpg

Betty again...she has the most beautiful face...

http://www.eskimospitbath.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/esb-Compson.22872653_std.jpg

And Nita Naldi. Check out this profile...amazing:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/187071429_a5411c7c66_o.jpg

Nita looking fabulous...

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Palace/2152/images/nita-candid-6.jpg

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

http://i52.tinypic.com/2rpagbc.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/x1k6s8.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/3096ek1.jpg

god kay francis was a beauty

i just saw "trouble in paradise" last night and she is just irresistable. her wikipedia entry is very sad -

In 1966 Francis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy, but the cancer had spread and proved fatal. Having no living immediate family members, Francis left over $1,000,000 to a company, Seeing Eye, Inc., which trained guide dogs for the blind.

<3 this thread, makes me wish I had a time machine.

http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos/colleenmoore.jpg
http://www.seraphicpress.com/images/colleen%20moore.jpg

Colleen Moore, the actress who popularised the Dutch-bob hairstyle.

http://www.gishfilm.com/images/Gish%20Main%204.jpg

Lilian Gish.

Carmel Myers as Iras in the '25 "Ben Hur". Great costume!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/carmel_myers.jpg

Glenda Farrell - talked about upthread, but no pictures. First saw her in Hollywood Hotel as the wisecracking secretary and fell in love.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/6562_123973065168.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/GlendaFarrellsm.jpg

hanging out with Joan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/blondell-farrell-havana_opt.jpg

Was just talking about Toby Wing on the Busby Berkeley thread, so:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2510474197_09ae6ff09f.jpg

This pic of Colleen Moore is in the new Sight and Sound, so had to post it.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=colleen+moore&num=50&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKuquJz7jRAhXEnRoKHQlgAJ0Q_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672#imgrc=JzKAeMPdXQQ4kM%3A

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d3/b2/47/d3b2470cdf27c9ba3b1eb019b10bc2dd.jpg

super duper into Myrna Loy recently

http://https%3A//images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjAwMzU0NjY4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDE3NjQ2._V1_UY317_CR6%2C0%2C214%2C317_AL_.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/d54a6af44a9fbba7e9226792a8b0db72/tumblr_inline_muiel963sH1qe6nze.jpg

Margaret Dumont circa early 1900s, not quite yet the dowdy dowager of Marx Brothers fame.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ueJ8XT060M/UEaNGl0dEgI/AAAAAAAAFBM/nLew3bQeDwc/s1600/margaret-dumont.png

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

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

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

In tribute to my most recently watched films: Billie Dove

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/looking-for-mabel/NEW/LFM%20007%20Billie%20Dove.jpg

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

Mae Clarke

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM3Mzk0NzUyM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzYxNjU2._V1_UY317_CR14,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

Mary Brian

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/biographies/b/brian_mary/brian_mary.jpg

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

Damn, the second and third photos especially.

Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX (1929) pic.twitter.com/YRTR9lxdwo

— Anne Billson (@AnneBillson) January 3, 2019