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

Lillian Gish

http://www.afi.com/Images/tvevents/laa/archive/gal_gish_lillian_9.jpg

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

Brigitte Helm

http://www.leninimports.com/brigittehelm2.jpg

Maureen O'Sullivan

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj261/LadySylvia_1932/The%20Thirties/MaureenOSullivanbg.jpg

Norma Shearer

http://static.flickr.com/108/260271993_94c994c555.jpg

That Maureen O'Sullivan one is ace!

Clara Bow:
http://cinema.concordia.ca/wscreen/images/clarabow.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2398/1989630769_ca3c40aa9b_o.jpg

Nancy Carroll
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2147/1876826170_1a89e27b33_o.jpg

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

Myrna Loy
http://bp0.blogger.com/_FR87g-YIx2s/R2clTB6P0lI/AAAAAAAADEg/fZFM1dGdQ-U/s1600-h/myrna+loy+1.jpg
http://majorlycool.com/media/1/20071124-MyrnaLoy.jpg

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

Winifred Lenihan
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/2315348225_1d145c15ed_o.jpg

sally eilers
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3306574.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=BAA3E61C514E7EC68629D8D39FBF6609A55A1E4F32AD3138

loretta young
http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/345/652/76/o_loretta_young_01.jpg

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:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2551000458_0f4be78075.jpg

Or maybe that shd be Corinne Griffith pwns all:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2432691802_4df1f86db4.jpg

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/discus/messages/5672/97159.jpg

Gloria Stuart

someone find a good picture of fay wray

http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/images/a-prices-realized/movies/watkins/0422%20sylvia%20sidney.jpg

http://www.annabellasite.com/annabella_0048.jpg

annabella

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/349/160/46/o_Annex_-_Francis,_Kay_(Man_Who_Lost_Himself,_The)_01.jpg

kay francis

http://static.flickr.com/116/255867760_b5c35ecc6f.jpg

barbara stanwyck of course

http://www.movietreasures.com/SigPix/gayn.jpg

janet gaynor

ruby keeler

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3352507.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=0629904139C22E589F5BED48428FB739A55A1E4F32AD3138

young joan crawford
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2576114500_7406d45c71.jpg?v=0

http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/images/MASTOSprofiles/crawford/1920s-fan-photo.jpg

ruby keeler

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

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2271/2169937041_189df44625.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2165/2169935297_2c83b141af.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/2181536585_05a749300b.jpg

"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.

Olga Baclanova:

http://www.olgabaclanova.com/picture_gallery/movies/dove_cs_3s_sos/three_sinners_693-96_6.jpg

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.

Another Gloria Stuart:

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3306374.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=BAA3E61C514E7EC6DC9B402133B44DD9A55A1E4F32AD3138

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

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2366656471_4b4519bc39_o.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2358/2366657559_5a78448b79.jpg
Virginia Lee Corbin, proto Shirley Temple-style child star in the teens, yer actual genuine flapper girl film star in the late '20's.

Lupe Velez

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/VelezLupe_02.jpg

Sylvia Sidney

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/citystreets.jpg

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/Annex-AckermanJean_01.jpg

http://www.cineyestrellas.com/Elenco/Actrices/H/Hopkins_Miriam_1.jpg

Miriam Hopkins

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTefaIAptIABABB4CjzbkF/SIG=1291e2ugn/EXP=1218204680/**http%3A//www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/Constance.JPG

Constance Bennett

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/LOMBARD.JPG

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/Constance.JPG

Connie Bennett, second try

http://www.divasthesite.com/Greta_Garbo/images/Greta_Garbo_06.jpg

Garbo

http://www.nndb.com/people/341/000108017/michele-morgan-1-sized.jpg

Michèle Morgan

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

simone simon
http://www.hurrellphotography.com/Hurrell/simonesimonbig.GIF

dolores del rio
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2189519969_8b1483a6a2_o.jpg

someone find a good picture of fay wray

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/247/453820221_9c15584fec.jpg

A little later maybe, but still hot hot hot.

http://www.wumingfoundation.com/images/frances.jpg

^^^Frances Farmer btw

A lot of fucked-up ladies on display here.

In life or in the pics?

luise rainer
http://www.goatview.com/ranier1.jpg

In life or in the pics?

In life. The pics are gorgeous.

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

Luise Rainer looks like a beautiful actress from the future.

Karen Morley

http://data-allocine.blogomaniac.fr/mdata/5/4/3/Z20060810095113163248345/img/photo_1225.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/Life/lifebooks/hepburn/images/cover_big.jpg

That one's maybe early '40s, I'm thinking, 'cause of the hairstyle.

Tallulah Bankhead

http://www.altfg.com/Stars/actorsb/bankhead-tallulah.jpg

Marlene Dietrich

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1248/1241944035_dfdc2fc685.jpg

A good Tallulah Bankhead one is on this cover:
http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/covers/all/5/1/9780141187815H.jpg

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

Ann Dvorak (trying again):
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3265073.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=10276273D480F6D89C3BEBDFAD8F46FAA55A1E4F32AD3138

we got this far without a picture of Joan????

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/177393_large.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/90731_large.jpg

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 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

OUTSIDE, COUNTESS.

AS LONG AS THEY HAVE SIDEWALKS, YOU'VE GOT A JOB!!

(SLAM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnH_XnUIyxs&feature=related

Joan + Glenda = <3<3<3 squared.

How did they learn to talk so fast?

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.

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

Nice one!

mary astor
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/1332443951_b287694094.jpg?v=0

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.

Well, here she is again!

http://www.condenaststore.com/VanityFair/ProdImages/VanityFair/CN00033141_LARGE.JPG

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

Pola Negri:

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3296358.jpg

Funny, Norma Shearer always looks very modern to me, even if the acting sometimes betrays that.

theda bara
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1096/bara3.jpg

http://www.wfu.edu/~woodaljn/ant260/theda.jpg

joan bennett
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir_image/scarlet.jpg

marguerite churchill
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/cheesecake/margueritechurchill1.jpg

joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s

hedy lamarr
http://venus.provocateuse.com/images/photos/hedy_lamarr_01.jpg

joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s

well, until 1938
http://www.classichollywoodbios.com/Images/Joan%20&%20Constance%20Bennett%20Images/Joan%20Bennett.jpg

Hedy Lamarr:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3207288.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=C037F202D99E3099FF3672C9DC4E5F38A55A1E4F32AD3138

proto-goth Catherine Hessling

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/renoir1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/renoir5.jpg

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

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

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.

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.

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'."

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.

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

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2286103313_52aae9e42b.jpg

Miriam Hopkins, again.

the rest seem very obviously tied to their time

you make it sound like that's a bad thing

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.

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

Ooh, Alice White, good call. She was funny, too.

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.)

Best thread ever. Thanks everybody.

Unsure of the actress's name, but she's from 1933's absolutely beuatiful silent Japanese gangster flick 'Hijosen no onna' or 'Dragnet Girl'
http://img.verycd.com/posts/0612/post-493702-1165306396.jpg
http://img147.echo.cx/img147/1548/vlcsnap6123439pf.png

Wow, that Anna May Wong photo is jaw-dropping

It's great, isn't it?

Here she is again...
http://www.rudehouse.com/desktops/1024/AnnaMayWong-1024.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/143708056_7483ec30b9.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/143708050_df90318ffc.jpg

Mostly pinched from http://flickr.com/photos/gatochy/sets/72157600116018073/

Fanny Brice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album5/steichenfannybrice1924.jpg

(found at http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/ )

the Garbo's disappeared, let me fix that:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3779473916_8aca733eb7_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3778668719_238dcf5969_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2463/3779474204_fb0afe63fb.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2650/3778669055_14b19439f3.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2456/3779474432_908449260c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3779474498_a922cdef4c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3779474558_f1e5ba078c.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3779474128_b0e842e4de.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/3778668759_dcdfe74b56_o.jpg

I got more. Jean Harlow:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3518/3779473772_50ee57cb10_o.jpg

Joan Crawford:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2663/3778669425_99b9b98886_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3778670833_408575c837.jpg

Clara Bow:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/3779480006_e38c1b9df7.jpg

Noel Francis:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3779476054_079655f057.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3778670611_17b9d5fa52.jpg

Claudette Colbert:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/3779475488_9fa1160368.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3778669547_3e27ef477f_o.jpg

Evalyn Knapp:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3779475636_c2bedf2e0e.jpg

Alma Rubens:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3779475808_32bd973b71.jpg

Bette Davis:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/3779475288_a33623b34b.jpg

Louise Brooks:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3556/3778669643_365f3758e6_o.jpg

The Allure blog has beautiful pictures, I think I got at least a few of these there.

best-looking thread of the week ever

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