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

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..like so:

Anna May Wong

Louise Brooks

Josephine Baker

Who else should be here?

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lillian Gish

(did Stevie Nicks get part of her look from Gish in Broken Blossoms?)

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Brigitte Helm

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Maureen O'Sullivan

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

Norma Shearer

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

That Maureen O'Sullivan one is ace!

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Clara Bow:

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nancy Carroll

And hell I wish I'd spelled this thread title properly.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Myrna Loy

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://bp0.blogger.com/_FR87g-YIx2s/R2clTB6P0lI/AAAAAAAADEg/fZFM1dGdQ-U/s1600-h/myrna+loy+1.jpg

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Winifred Lenihan

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

sally eilers

― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 05:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

loretta young

― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

L Brooks v v hott, but god, try reading anything biographical about her, gaze into the abyss (see also Jessie Matthews who was just about exactly as hott as "brooksie" and just about exactly as fucked up)

Anyway, Norma Talmadge pwns all:

Or maybe that shd be Corinne Griffith pwns all:

― Pashmina, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Gloria Stuart

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

someone find a good picture of fay wray

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

annabella

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

kay francis

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

barbara stanwyck of course

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

janet gaynor

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

ruby keeler

― amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

young joan crawford

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

ruby keeler

I was going to mention Ruby as well, she is absolutely radiant in those Busby Berkeley numbers <3<3<3:

"yoo-hoo-hoo-hoo":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=707VxB-ek4Q

When she starts singing in that quavery, little-old-lady voice, it really gets to me.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Olga Baclanova:

― Pashmina, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Winifred Lenihan is lovely. Also, a rare example of a famous person without a wikipedia entry, leaving her life story unsullied by actual facts. I imagine her as a star of 20s Soviet propaganda posters, before disappearing in the South Pacific flying missions during WWII.

As for the rest, there was some crazy eyebrow plucking going on in those days.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Another Gloria Stuart:

Which is to say, the same one but a different picture. :\

― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Virginia Lee Corbin, proto Shirley Temple-style child star in the teens, yer actual genuine flapper girl film star in the late '20's.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lupe Velez

Sylvia Sidney

Jean Ackerman (although she didn't really do any films)

― zappi, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Miriam Hopkins

― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Constance Bennett

― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Connie Bennett, second try

― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

Garbo

― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Michèle Morgan

― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

love this thread
(makes me want to get my hair cut tho...)

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

simone simon

― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

dolores del rio

― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

someone find a good picture of fay wray

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

A little later maybe, but still hot hot hot.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^Frances Farmer btw

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

A lot of fucked-up ladies on display here.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

In life or in the pics?

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

luise rainer

― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

In life or in the pics?

In life. The pics are gorgeous.

― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Some of em do look pretty fucked up (I imagine some of them were heh.)

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

Luise Rainer looks like a beautiful actress from the future.

― Alba, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Karen Morley

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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mary astor

― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well, here she is again!

― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's less overtly stylized, less glam, but it fairly screams 1920s to me

― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

Pola Negri:

― Melissa W, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

theda bara

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

joan bennett

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

marguerite churchill

― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s

― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

hedy lamarr

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s

well, until 1938

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hedy Lamarr:

― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 08:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

proto-goth Catherine Hessling

― zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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:

― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

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:

― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Toby Wing, one of my favourites!

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm very surprised by the lack of the original Platinum Blonde, Jean Harlow

As lady Astor is alleged to have said "You spell it with a silent 't'."

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Jessie Matthews:

Very, very hot, but so so fucked up. Poor bloody woman.

― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Alice White, briefly a big star in the early sound era:

Tune to listen to whilst perusing thread:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/k2vu1l10ve.mp3

― Pashmina, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Miriam Hopkins, again.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

MH with Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall in Trouble in Paradise.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Those glamor shots don't convey how funny she was.

― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Ruan Lingyu

(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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Best thread ever. Thanks everybody.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 August 2008 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Unsure of the actress's name, but she's from 1933's absolutely beuatiful silent Japanese gangster flick 'Hijosen no onna' or 'Dragnet Girl'