1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[Orchide]

me too

 

[cheiby11]

Gloria Swanson





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[lady stardust]

thx for the gloria pics cheiby11
some pics of coool pola negri
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[lady stardust]

2 small pics of the gothic theda bara
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[lady stardust]

sweeeet madge bellamy
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[lady stardust]

2 pics of lilian gish
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[cheiby11]

oh so cute! Thank you!

Medge looks like an angel at the first pic

 

[lady stardust]

oh so cute! Thank you!

Medge looks like an angel at the first pic

your welcome

 

[northernsky]

i really recommend abel gance's "napoléon". i thought all the male roles were so much stronger than josephine de beauharnais, played by gina manès, but i'll post her anyway. here is a picture from someone's photobucket.

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[cheiby11]

Have you seen many silent movies? what ar your favourites?

pics are great like usual

 

[northernsky]

i meet a friend at her place every tuesday to watch a silent movie as she is a film student and can get lots of tapes from her department.

it's hard to name favourites as there were very few that i did not like that much. but..

i think one of my favourites ever is "the wind" (1928) by victor sjöström, with lilian gish and lars hanson. it tells the story of a young woman who comes from some green village on the east coast to a inhospitable desert town, because she is going to live with a cousin of hers and his wife and children. there is a wind constantly blowing and a man she meets on the train says that this wind makes people go crazy especially women. lilian gish plays this fragile woman, letty, so well, you always think the desert is too rough for her, that she will be a victim of the living conditions sooner or later. i wrote about her clothes earlier in this thread. her counterpart is her cousin's wife, you see her butchering animals all the time and things like that, living in the desert has made her hard. of course, everyone falls for letty who seems so strange in this environment, two cowboys pay attentions to her all the time. finally her cousin's wife gets too jealous of her and can't take it anymore, so letty has to marry one of the cowboys and move in with him. ohhh, and now my favourite scenes ever! after the marriage she arrives at her new husband's place who is more than happy to finally have her and wants to kiss her passionately but she rejects him, and now you learn how seriously in love he is. he agrees to leave her in peace. and i looove how lars hanson insightfully smiles when he realizes that she didn't drink the coffee he made for her earlier that evening but poured it -unseen by him- into a vase. it's great how the story is interwoven with the forces of nature. the director used this metaphorical language in a very intelligent way, i think.

i know my english sucks but at least it should be clear i highly recommend this film.

 

[northernsky]

a better review: http://www.nicksflickpicks.com/thewind.html

 

[cheiby11]

your review is great, so is your English
One of my friends is also film student, I'll try to ask her... thank you very much for recommandation

 

[DosViolines]

Haven't been here in a while, I should start posting again

Ok, to start out slowly, here's another Louise Brooks pic:


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She somewhat resembles Isabella Rossellini in this picture.

 

[cheiby11]

welcome back

 

[DosViolines]

^ Thank you

Gloria Swanson

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[DosViolines]

Gilda Gray

From wikipedia.org

Gilda Gray (October 24, 1901 - December 22, 1959) was a Polish-American actress and dancer who became famous in the US for popularizing a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.
Gilda Gray was born Marianna Winchalaska (or Michalska) in Cracow, Poland on 24 October 1901. Her parents immigrated to the United States in 1909 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When Marianna was fourteen or fifteen, a marriage was arranged for her with a saloonkeeper's son, John Gorecki. To increase their income, Marianna began singing in saloons owned by her father-in-law. Although the shimmy is said to have been introduced to white audiences by Gray in New York, other sources say that her shimmy was born one night when she was singing the Star Spangled Banner and forgot some of the lyrics. She covered up her embarrassment by shaking her shoulders and hips. Although the shimmy was already a well-known dance move, Marianna appropriated it as her own when she was asked about her dancing style, she replied in a heavy Polish accent; "I'm shaking my chemise," which sounded to the English-speaking audience like shimmy.
Her desire for to continue her burgeoning career and the faltering relationship with her husband prompted Gray to move to Chicago where she was noticed by a talent Frank Westphal who took her to New York and introduced her to his wife, singer Sophie Tucker. It was Tucker who prompted her to change her name to Gilda Gray. By 1919, she was appearing in a J. J. Shubert show, The Gaieties of 1919. By 1920, Gilda had found a new manager, Gallaird T. 'Gil' Boag. After being seen by Florenz Ziegfeld, she appeared in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies where she was enormously popular with the public.
After her divorce from her first husband, in 1923 she married her new manager, Gil Boagand took her successful vaudeville to Hollywood, California. She quickly abandoned vaudeville to become a film star, and between 1919 and 1936 Gray made several movies, in all of which she performed her famous shimmy. Her second role was a small part in Girl with the Jazz Heart. Jesse Lasky signed her to a contract with Famous Players. With him she made Aloma of the South Seas, which grossed $3,000,000 in its first three months. The success of this film was enhanced by Gilda's personal appearances doing the shimmy as a promotion. In 1927, she made two more films, The Devil Dancer and Cabaret.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Gilda Gray lost most of her financial assets, but she managed to get a job dancing at the Palace Theater in New York. By now, her second marriage had failed. In 1931 she suffered a heart attack. That same year she married a Venezuelan diplomat several years her junior, named Hector B. Riceno de Saa. This marriage also failed.
In 1936 she was signed to play herself in the movie, The Great Ziegfeld, but unfortunately her scenes were cut from the picture. In 1946, she again became newsworthy when she sued Columbia Pictures for using her name in their movie, Gilda. Although the title role, played by Rita Hayworth, had no resemblance to the real Gilda's life, Gilda reportedly received an out of court settlement which enabled her to establish a ranch in Colorado.
By the time of her death from a second heart attack on December 22, 1959, Gilda Gray was in again in financial trouble. The Motion Picture Relief Fund paid for her funeral.

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[DosViolines]

One more


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[northernsky]

Haven't been here in a while, I should start posting again

definitely.

Ok, to start out slowly, here's another Louise Brooks pic.
She somewhat resembles Isabella Rossellini in this picture.

i think i know what you mean, i sometimes see isabella rossellini in her, too. maybe it's that they have both kind of strong bodies and are both darkhaired.

the silent actresses gallery on thepcfixer.co.uk is apparently down. oh, i will miss it if it's really gone.
and my computer does not allow me to save pictures anymore. i'm trying imageshack.

here is more of lya de putti who played in varieté with emil jannings. i find, she always had a very extreme look. she had a womanly body with broad hips, soft arms and so on, very fineswung bow lips and lots of eye makeup but at the same time she often sported very boyish haircuts which looked interesting.



pictures from www.filmkultuura.hu (the first one), corbis (the sixth one) and silentladies (the rest).

 

[northernsky]

one of the most stylish silent actresses in my opinion was evelyn brent. i adore her. she played in "underworld" and in "the last command" with emil jannings.



and it looks like she loved shoes.



i think she made everything look good.



pictures from getty and corbis (the third one)