1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[Orchide]

ps- i just opened up the autographs of Colleen and when I touched where she wrote, it made me tear up...so weird to think I own this
i will scan all the stuff when I can to show how beautiful it all is

 

[somnambule]

oh yes,please post them.i wolud love to see them .

have you already had the chance to watch mantrap ?how´s the quality of the dvd?i have mantrap on video in a very,very poor quality .i guess it´s a copy from a copy from a copy.....i didn´t know that when i bought it,since the seller didn´t even mention it in his description .that´s the annoying thing about ebay.so many sellers make a fortune there by selling poor quality copies.i´ve made several bad experiences.meanwhile i prefer to shop at amazon.com.so far i´ve never been disappointed with what i got.unfortunately thier catalogue of silent films is rather limited.
i haven´t seen a lois wilson film either.i think i saw pictures of her in an old cinema- book,but i´m not sure because i always mix her up with lois moran .let me know how you liked the film.

 

[Orchide]

you can see her for a bit in "bright eyes"- early 30's as Sherley Temple's mom

this movie was terrific by the way...directed by William de Mille Cecil's brother. Her acting was sooooo good in this.
they showed some great shorts b/f the feature...a Harry Langdon and a Koko the Clown and a Buster Keaton one too
I am going to a screening tonight of a collector's reels- some shorts and a Mario Lanza feature. very nice...was so facinating going to see "miss Lulu Betts" b/c we ran into so many silent fans and collectors...this man I have met b/f was there and he knew MMM he was telling me stories about having dinner with her...wild!
all my new Colleen and Louise stuff I will have to scan somewhere to show you- I don't have a scanner- I will though b/c I wanna show somebody
ps- my "Mantrap" is okay- certainly not the best...I really wanted it though. I wonder if you got your's from the same guy.
Where did yours come from that was so fuzzy?

 

[somnambule]

thanks for these beautiful pics!

i´m leading a scannerless existence too...i feel a bit underprivileged sometimes .

your experiences sound like silent film heaven to me !!!!!i live here in what i would call a silent film lover´s limbo .

it´s interesting that de mille had a brother who was a director too.i didn´t know that.

unfortunately i can´t even remember the seller´s name (from whom i bought "mantrap)....i bought the video about 3 years ago.stupid as í am it could happen that i stumble across one of his offer again and end up buying it not knowing that......

here are 4 postcards that i bought recently (scanned by the seller

 

[Orchide]

oh my! those are beautiful- especially the ones of vilma and brigitte loving the drama.
gorgeous...

 

[somnambule]

i´m glad you liked them !i hope you´ll find a friendly scanner-owning person,because i would love to see your treasures .

here´s another beautiful brigitte helm-postcard,offered by the same seller.i would have loved to buy it,but since it was autographed the price was too high for me.
picture nr.2 is a postcard of elisabeth bergner,an austrian-german silent film actress (she became even more famous after the silent film era).

 

[Estella*]

(*interrupting the insiders*) that elisabeth bergner picture is wonderful somnambule, she had such a great, cool elegance

 

[stilista]

so beautiful and inspirational!

I love how Ellen Von Unwerth is so obviously attracted to this period too...

 

[Orchide]

(*interrupting the insiders*) that elisabeth bergner picture is wonderful somnambule, she had such a great, cool elegance

very funny
please do interupt and join us we insist!

 

[somnambule]

anna carina,it´s great to see you here !!i agree with orchide,you should "interrupt" us more often .
i have to join you´re elisabeth bergner thread.this postcard of EB reminded of one of your lotte lenya-pics.do you remember which one i mean?

 

[somnambule]

more alice terry....i just saw her in "the four horsemen of the apocalypse" with valentino.she seems so fragile and graceful !

 

[Orchide]

oooh thank you for those!
sorry i slacked on getting pics scanned- if not, i will use the seller pics like you did

 

[somnambule]

don´t worry orchide,i can wait.....well,i can´t wait,but....

martha mansfield

from:"tragic and untimely ends" by tim lussier

Martha Mansfield

(1899-1923)

Martha Mansfield was one of a group of musical comedy stars who were labeled by photographers after World War I as "the most beautiful girl in New York City." She worked in some of the Max Linder Essanays in 1916 and 1917 which led to feature roles. Her most famous role was as Millicent Carew in John Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920).

She was signed by Fox in 1923 and began work on "The Warrens of Virginia" on location in San Antonio, Texas. She had just finished filming a scene and was returning to her automobile when her dress caught fire from a match someone had dropped. She jumped from the automobile in flames, and co-star Wilfred Lytell threw his coat around her to smother the fire. She was rushed to a local hospital, but died less than 24 hours later at 24 years of age.

 

[somnambule]

edna purviance

 

[Orchide]

gorgeous just gorgeous!
and the details of martha's sad end, i didn't know...i am such a sap for tragic stories!
whoa...

 

[somnambule]

...i am such a sap for tragic stories!

me too .from all the tragic stories and deaths in early hollywood martha´s seems to be one of the oddest to me .

more nita naldi:

and some quotes in which she refers to the stereotype vamp-roles she always had to play.it seems like she had a great sense of humour and didn´t take herself too seriously ...

"They used to put me in boudoir scenes wearing ermine tails and paradises in my hair and a couple of snakes coiled around my shoulders. A man would run 20 miles if he ever stumbled on a woman really looking like that."


"Girls like Marilyn Monroe are tremendously more sexy than I ever could be. They look like human beings. I looked like something buried for 2,000 years and just dug up!"

quotes and pics from:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Palace/2152/contents.html

 

[somnambule]

orchide,i see you had a face lift !!i like it.i´m thinking of a face lift too,but i´m not sure yet which kind of surgery i should undergo....
and i fear i could cause anna karina grief (*winks to anna karina*).
anyway,i stumbled across some early marlene dietrich pictures by chance and i had to think of you (you wrote that you love her),so i thought i´d post them.they´re from one of her last silent films "die frau,nach der man sich sehnt" ("the woman men yearn for").i haven´t seen it,but the critics wrote that it was her best.i hope you haven´t seen these pics yet....

 

[somnambule]

and a postcard of alice terry i bought 2 days ago...

 

[Orchide]

and a postcard of alice terry i bought 2 days ago...

heehee yes i had a little facelift! went from gemma ward to elise crombez

great postcard...
i will post the postcard scans from the seller scans too later tonight for you

 

[Estella*]

and i fear i could cause anna karina grief (*winks to anna karina*).

with a sigh of relief i can go to bed now


beautiful pictures! i especially like the first of martha mansfield and the last edna purviance (so bashful)