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 (sixteen years ago) link
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. :\
― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― zappi, Thursday, 7 August 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cineyestrellas.com/Elenco/Actrices/H/Hopkins_Miriam_1.jpg
Miriam Hopkins
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTefaIAptIABABB4CjzbkF/SIG=1291e2ugn/EXP=1218204680/**http%3A//www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/Constance.JPG
Constance Bennett
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/LOMBARD.JPG
http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/Constance.JPG
Connie Bennett, second try
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.divasthesite.com/Greta_Garbo/images/Greta_Garbo_06.jpg
Garbo
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nndb.com/people/341/000108017/michele-morgan-1-sized.jpg
Michèle Morgan
― Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
love this thread (makes me want to get my hair cut tho...)
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 7 August 2008 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
simone simon http://www.hurrellphotography.com/Hurrell/simonesimonbig.GIF
― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
dolores del rio http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2189519969_8b1483a6a2_o.jpg
― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
someone find a good picture of fay wray
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/247/453820221_9c15584fec.jpg
― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
A little later maybe, but still hot hot hot.
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/images/frances.jpg
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^Frances Farmer btw
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
A lot of fucked-up ladies on display here.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
In life or in the pics?
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
luise rainer http://www.goatview.com/ranier1.jpg
― velko, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
In life. The pics are gorgeous.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:25 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Luise Rainer looks like a beautiful actress from the future.
― Alba, Thursday, 7 August 2008 23:34 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Tallulah Bankhead
http://www.altfg.com/Stars/actorsb/bankhead-tallulah.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Marlene Dietrich
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1248/1241944035_dfdc2fc685.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 August 2008 00:28 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/90731_large.jpg
― zappi, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:04 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice one!
― James Morrison, Friday, 8 August 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
mary astor http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/1332443951_b287694094.jpg?v=0
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 02:24 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
that's less overtly stylized, less glam, but it fairly screams 1920s to me
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Pola Negri:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3296358.jpg
― Melissa W, Friday, 8 August 2008 03:29 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
theda bara http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1096/bara3.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wfu.edu/~woodaljn/ant260/theda.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
joan bennett http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir_image/scarlet.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
marguerite churchill http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/cheesecake/margueritechurchill1.jpg
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
joan bennett was a blonde in the 30s
― velko, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
hedy lamarr http://venus.provocateuse.com/images/photos/hedy_lamarr_01.jpg
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:39 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/2rpagbc.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/x1k6s8.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/3096ek1.jpg
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
god kay francis was a beauty
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 this thread, makes me wish I had a time machine.
― Obese Pony-hating Liberal (Billy Dods), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos/colleenmoore.jpghttp://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.
― Danzig, with tears in my eyes (DavidM), Monday, 28 February 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Carmel Myers as Iras in the '25 "Ben Hur". Great costume!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/carmel_myers.jpg
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Monday, 28 February 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― zappi, Monday, 28 February 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hanging out with Joan
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/blondell-farrell-havana_opt.jpg
― zappi, Monday, 28 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Was just talking about Toby Wing on the Busby Berkeley thread, so:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2510474197_09ae6ff09f.jpg
― Hodge Podge Bodge, Peo-PLE! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 28 February 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d3/b2/47/d3b2470cdf27c9ba3b1eb019b10bc2dd.jpg
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/d54a6af44a9fbba7e9226792a8b0db72/tumblr_inline_muiel963sH1qe6nze.jpg
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
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
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 24 September 2017 17:16 (six 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
― 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 (six 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