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
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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2286103313_52aae9e42b.jpg
Miriam Hopkins, again.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:16 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Those glamor shots don't convey how funny she was.
― collardio gelatinous, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:23 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Best thread ever. Thanks everybody.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 August 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― James Morrison, Sunday, 10 August 2008 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that Anna May Wong photo is jaw-dropping
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
It's great, isn't it?
― James Morrison, Sunday, 10 August 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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/
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Fanny Brice
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album5/steichenfannybrice1924.jpg
(found at http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/ )
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 August 2008 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I got more. Jean Harlow:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3518/3779473772_50ee57cb10_o.jpg
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Noel Francis:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3779476054_079655f057.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3778670611_17b9d5fa52.jpg
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Claudette Colbert:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/3779475488_9fa1160368.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/3778669547_3e27ef477f_o.jpg
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Evalyn Knapp:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3779475636_c2bedf2e0e.jpg
Alma Rubens:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3779475808_32bd973b71.jpg
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Bette Davis:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/3779475288_a33623b34b.jpg
― sciolism, Saturday, 1 August 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link