1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[cheiby11]

Virginia Valli

another heroine of silent movies Virginia Valli

Date of birth (location)
10 June 1898
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of death (details)
24 September 1968
Palm Springs, California, USA. (stroke)
Birth name Virginia McSweeney

Virginia got her start with a Milwaukee stock company and also did some film work with Essanay Studios in 1917 Chicago. Back in the theater, it would be 3 more years before she was brought out to Hollywood to act as leading lady to Bert Lytell. Virginia would continue to appear in films throughout the decade and she would be an established star at Universal by the mid 20's. The bulk of her films would be between 1924 and 1927.

While she had no trouble adjusting to sound in The Isle of Lost Ships (1929), which she made at First National, her big salary and declining appeal both conspired to end her film career. Unable to find a suitable studio, she would make her last film The Last Zeppelin (1930) at Tiffany Studios. In 1931, she married Charles Farrell and retired from the screen to live in Beverly Hills before moving to Palm Springs.

Buried in Welwood Murray Cemetery, Palm Springs, CA


some pix from getty

 

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1925 in a seductive pose

 

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and some pics from her visit to London in 1925

(getty)

 

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actress Nancy Carroll Circa 1925

 

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She shot movies in 20's and 30's

I think she is sweet

in 1928 Nancy Carrroll poses with her Cadillac outside the Paramount studios

 

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1929 appearing on the opening broadcast of KNX Radio station (getty)

 

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1929 in a scene from the Paramount film 'The Dance of Life', adapted from the stage play 'Burlesque'

lovely costume

 

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1930 with Richard Arlen star in the crime drama 'Dangerous Paradise'

 

[Orchide]

Oooh thanks Cheiby- I love Nancy Carroll especially- such a doll

 

[somnambule]

Wow- that's a funny read!
It shows how much perceptions have changed...*tsk, tsk, tsk* Oh Connie, if you talked like that nowadays, it would be racist.

totally agree with you,orchide.i just wanted to add that i hope that the article didn´t offend anybody.i would feel ashamed if it were so .i didn´t take her words too seriously (half of it isn´t true anyway) that´s why i found it rather entertaining .

cheiby,nancy carroll is a cutie !!!

mae murray,"the girl with the bee-stung lips"
some considered her to be a model for the norma desmond character in "sunset boulevard" (mae commented on norma desmond:"none of us floozies was that crazy.").her movie carreer went downhill after her most famous film "the merry widow" (1925).there´s a short biography about her in a german movie-book,which contains a quote from her biography "Mae Murray: the Self Enchanted; Image of an Era".i´ll try to translate it,knowing that the english original certainly sounded different than my translation :
"we were all like dragon-flies.we seemed to soar effortlessly,yet we had to beat our wings violently."

image-sources:silentsaregolden.com,silentladies.com

 

[lady stardust]

Thanx for your pics and information somnabule & cheiby11 I have some great pics of Mae Murray, hope you like them!!!(one of Mary Astor also.)

As usual pics from ebay:

 

[cheiby11]

somnambule and lady star dust thank you for wonderful pictures!!!

I really this thread!

 

[somnambule]

me too,cheiby.it´s rather addictive !

dolores costello,
a very beautiful actress,third wife of john barrymore and grandmother of drew barrymore.

a quote taken from her homepage (URL cited below

"She was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments"-John Barrymore


pics stem mainly from these sources:
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/4988/ and imdb.com....i´m sorry but i can´t recall the others .

 

[somnambule]

i´m sorry.it didn´t work.i´ll try it once more...
one picture shows her (if it shows) together with her sister helene,who was an actress too.

 

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Fredi Washington

I respect her a lot because she was many times pressured to pass for white, but she refused to deny her Black heritage.

 

[somnambule]

and 2 more ...

 

[Estella*]

dolores costello was so beautiful
and i love the barrymore quote, somnambule

sepia, i wasn't familiar with fredi washington, that's very impressive.

 

[cheiby11]

some more pictures of Florence Vidor

(from getty as usual)

 

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Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice was first star who underwent a plastic surgery - a nose-job...

Barbra Streisand played her in the 1968 musical Funny Girl.


(getty)

 

[travis_nw8]

great thread!- now we need a 1930's one...