1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

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Clara Bow

Date of birth (location)
29 July 1905
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of death (details)
27 September 1965
West Los Angeles, California, USA. (heart attack)
Birth name
Clara Gordon Bow
Nickname
The "It" Girl
Height: 5' 3½" (1.61 m)


[font=&quot]THE flapper of the 1920's, was born and raised in poverty in Brooklyn, New York.[/font]

[font=&quot][/font][font=&quot]Her mother tried to slit Clara's throat when she attempted to enter the film industry. She won a photo beauty contest which launched her movie career that would eventually number 58 films, from 1922 to 1933.
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[font=&quot]It was the movie It (1927), which was to define her career. The film starred Clara as a shop girl who was asked out by the store's owner. As you watch the silent film you can see the excitement as she prepared for her date with the boss, her girlfriend trying hard to assist her. She was trying to use a pair of scissors to modify her dress in order to look more "sexy".
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[font=&quot]At the height of her popularity she received over 45,000 fan letters a month.
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[font=&quot]She married cowboy star, Rex Bell and retired from the film world at the age of 26. She was a doting mother of her two sons.
[/font][font=&quot]Sons, Rex Anthony (b. 1934) and George Robert (b. 1938)[/font]

[font=&quot]She was America's first sex symbol.
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pictures of her from 1925

Shiny Hollywood star a and cute sportive flapper in one person

She is modelling a bridal gown, it is not her own.

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1926 launches a canoe outside her Malibu home (getty)

 

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1928 pics from her movie called The Fleet's In

and at the second one she poses

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I this one!

She poses dressed in Arabian costume in 1929.

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1930 with actor Richard Dix (getty)

 

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1930 with a group of Native Americans (getty)

 

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in wonderful dress in her movie Love Among the Millionaires (1930)

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1930 on board the schooner 'Diable' at Malibu

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two pics from The It movie (1927), which gave her name

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Aaaw Orchide you look so pretty

 

[Orchide]

Oh, and a random quiz for people...

http://quizilla.com/users/louisebrooks/qui...u%3F%20(female)

I got what I expected to get.

just re-reading the thread...what result did you get purple, now I am curious?
I got Vamp which does suit me I think!

You are a Vamp. Included in this category are Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, and Anna May Wong. You like to be adventurous and completely unorthodox. You cannot stand to go with the crowd. You like to flirt with trouble more than anything and you always intrigue the men. People may see you as dark and dangerous, though that is only your exterior. You are deep and most intelligent. You end up being a loner because your thoughts often evade others capabilities to understand what you think. Your colour is black.

I fell in love with Louise when I was about 15 and I read her bio written by Barry Paris- highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the era and loves Louise...so well-written and researched.
For a few years, I dyed my hair black and had her cut...when I would go to the Silent Movie Theatre, the elderly man who ran it would let me in for free, he called me "the Louise girl"

Re. Josephine Baker, I don't think she did silents but I know she did do films- her era was more 30- 40's- when I was in high school, I had my dad drive me into New Orleans where they were screening a double bill of "Zou Zou" and "Princess Tam-Tam" I have loved her ever since.

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edited to add- just saw your comment above Dulee *big smooch* and welcome to the 20's thread hun

 

[Orchide]

Love Louise as the canary...she refused to come back and dub her voice in when they completed that film as a sound picture- you will notice if you see it, the voice is def. not Louise
And here is Florence Vidor---

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I don't have any pics/stills from the film I just saw of her's this past week on the big screen "Chinatown Nights" with Wallace Beery and Warner Oland but they made it a silent with added sound track just like with Louise's "Canary Murder" film and they dubbed in for Florence, a sharp british voice
Other than that, I really enjoyed this movie plus it was her final film ever- it was directed by William Welland who did "Wings" which won an Oscar the following year and produced by David O Selznick...some who saw it sitting near to me, didn't...but I like arch old school asian gangster melodramas B)
The plot is different too- Florence plays an uptown dame going down to Chinatown late at night with her drunk boytoy and they take a midnight tour of "the seamy side of Chinatown"- thats what the tour car reads...somehow, she gets left in Chinatown and has an affair with one of the gang leaders--- she wears fabulous clothes too...lots of drapey loungey looks and then later Chinese pajamas and there's lots of great scenery and quippy dialogue.

Here is the blurb on her from NYTimes- note here it says her voice was recorded badly and it ended her career but people in the know I met at Cinecon said it wasn't her voice at all...plus she was from Texas and I swear the voice in the movie sounded British to me

For the first 20 years of her life, Houston-born Florence Vidor was Florence Cobb. In 1915 she married freelance photographer King Vidor, a fellow Texan with aspirations for a movie career. The Vidors traveled to Hollywood in their second-hand Model T (which also served as their "home"), financing their trip by filming travelogue footage on behalf of the Ford Motor company. Both secured jobs at the Vitagraph studio, Florence as a bit player and King as a scriptwriter and extra. The first of Florence's film roles to attract attention was the tragic seamstress in Fox's 1917 production of A Tale of Two Cities. She was next cast as leading lady opposite Sessue Hayakawa in Hashimura Togo (1917). Within a year she was starring for Cecil B. DeMille, but didn't like the director all that much and went to work for her husband, who opened his own studio in 1919. By the time the Vidors were divorced in 1923, King had risen to the top of the directorial ladder, while Florence Vidor had become a major star in films like Alice Adams (1923). Her best-known silent films include Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924) and the highly romanticized Revolutionary War melodrama Barbara Frietchie (1924). Florence's first talkie, Chinatown Nights (1929), was also her last film; it wasn't that she had a poor voice, but simply that the recording equipment available at the time failed to do her voice justice. Florence Vidor retired to devote her time to her second husband, violinist Jascha Heifetz, and her three children

 

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cheiby,thanks for posting all these beautiful pictures of clara and louise .

OMG !!!orchide,thanks so much for your picture and the background stories .i came across pictures and stories of baby peggy several times but i had no idea that she was still alive.do you know how old she is?she still looks hale and hearty.which stars/people did she mention?
btw,you look wonderful.i can imagine that louise´s dutchbob suits you perfectly.it´s my favourite haircut but i couldn´t wear it.
i love the thought that there are still several silent film stars around.it makes this era palpable even nowadays.it must be such a pleasure to talk to them.books can give you a lot of information but it´s not comparable to your experiences.i´m lookinf forward to reading and seeing more !!!

it´s a bit embarrassing to admit it ,but the film clip didn´t work for me.my old ,senile computer needed more than half an hour to download the whole thing and when i wanted to open it, it told me that something went wrong and that i should try to download it again ...argh!!

i saw florence vidor in lubitsch´s marriage circle.it´s one of my favourite silent films.i think i´ve watched it a thousand times and it still makes me laugh.florence vidor is a refreshing contrast to marie prevost´s bitchy character.adolphe menjou plays prevost´s bitter husband who tries desperately to get rid of his wife.it´s hilarious .

btw,2 or 3 months ago i was able to win the new olive thomas -dvd "the olive thomas collection" at ebay.i was incredibly happy when i received it.i´ve waited for it so long.the film "the flapper" is a nice ,little comedy.it was funny to see norma and ethel shearer as bit players.as far as i know it was norma´s first film.norma and her sister looked so much alike that it was hard to distinguish between them.
the documetnary about olive was even more interesting than the film.they featured several rare scenes from semi-lost films.there´s also a scene from jack pickford´s huckleberrry finn.all in all highly recommendable.

oh yes,please scan the photoplay magazine if you get the chance to do so .i love old movie magazines.my collection is rather small though.the magazines that interest me the most are often the most expensive and some sellers claim insanely high shipping-costs to europe .

alice white,who had a rather short carreer at the end of the silent film era.when she dyed her hair blond first national tried to sell her as the blond counterpart to clara bow.she played "dorothy" in the the 1928 version of gentlemen prefer blondes.

 

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Mary Pickford

Date of birth (location)
8 April 1892
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death (details)
29 May 1979
Santa Monica, California, USA. (cerebral hemorrhage)
Birth name
Gladys Marie Smith
Nickname: [font=&quot]America's Sweetheart (abroad, The World's Sweetheart)
[/font]Height: [font=&quot]5' 0½" (1.54 m)

[/font][font=&quot]Her parents were actors and it was only natural that she would follow in their footsteps. Her mother wasted no time in introducing her to the stage, and she appeared in one production at the age of six. After numerous stage plays, Mary entered the film world and immortality.

[/font][font=&quot]In 1909, Mary appeared in 51 films--almost one a week!

[/font][font=&quot]Mary was more than an actress; she was a tough, savvy businesswoman with, and was proud of the fact that she knew what worked for her and what didn't.

[/font][font=&quot]Mary Pickford was the most popular star in the silent era, if not of all time.

[/font][font=&quot]She was awarded an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1976.[/font]


Her mansion Pickfair was sold ten months after her death for $5,362,000; later sold to Pia Zadora in January 1988 for just under $7 million.

Measurements: 33 1/4-25-36 (from her dress designer), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

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Mary Pickford in her fabulous wedding dress

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1920 with Douglas Fairbanks - before setting off on their belated European honeymoon on board the Lapland

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some more from 1920

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1921 Mary Pickford is wearing a Japanese kimono and reading a copy of Little Lord Fauntleroy

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1924 Mary plays the historical heroine of the film Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

wonderful costume

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