1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)
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thanks for the beautiful pictures, everyone! i could spend hours just looking at this thread. orchide, thanks for tempting somnambule to visit us more often
that picture of baby peggy is incredible
and the mary pickford pictures, cheiby! there's something so crazy about her...
that picture of baby peggy is incredibleand the mary pickford pictures, cheiby! there's something so crazy about her...
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anna,good to see you here .i hope i can tempt YOU to post in this thread more often 
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love the pictures of mary!!!
have the talmadge sisters been posted before??my memory fails me...probably i´m as senile as my computer .however,here is norma talmadge.some considered her to be one of the best dramatic actresses of the silent film era,whereas her sister constance was mainly a comedienne (marilyn monroe received her real first name because her mother was a huge norma talmadge-fan and therefore wanted to name her daughter after her).the paperdolls are from an old photoplay-edition (unfortunately not mine 
).i´ll post some pictures of constance the next time.
.i hope i can tempt YOU to post in this thread more often . love the pictures of mary
!!!have the talmadge sisters been posted before??my memory fails me...probably i´m as senile as my computer
.however,here is norma talmadge.some considered her to be one of the best dramatic actresses of the silent film era,whereas her sister constance was mainly a comedienne (marilyn monroe received her real first name because her mother was a huge norma talmadge-fan and therefore wanted to name her daughter after her).the paperdolls are from an old photoplay-edition (unfortunately not mine ).i´ll post some pictures of constance the next time.
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I just love those old b/w pics from the 20´s!!! Thanx so much for sharing!!! Another great lady from this era was Gloria Swanson, a very special kind of beauty and a terrific actress.
pics from ebay:
pics from ebay:
^lovely swanson pictures!
hello, somnambule, meine liebe, you just gave me an idea
mary pickford paperdoll from www.paperdollparade.com
(by the way, always add the source of the pictures, please)
hello, somnambule, meine liebe, you just gave me an idea
mary pickford paperdoll from www.paperdollparade.com
(by the way, always add the source of the pictures, please)
Oh so lovely Anna K love the paper dollies!
Cheiby, you are wonderful and welcome Bagsnthings! Joan Crawford in the late 20's very early 30's is my favorite dresser
Somnambule, glad you liked seeing Diana aka Baby Peggy- she told great stories about 'Uncle Carl"- who created Universal Studios...as I mentioned before, I met Carl's real niece Carla who danced and is amazing...both Diana and Carla, I have their contact info to keep up with them as I had such a great time talking and looking at their pictures.
When Baby Peggy was only 3 and 4, she had her own limo and driver at her disposal
she was such a cutie and she is precious still.
At the screening of "The Spoilers" which was from 1913- or 14- I sat by her and she was very into watching the film and laughing, very alert and peppy for her age...she must be around 80...'The Spoilers" btw was shot in my very neighborhood too
Patricia Neal was from the era of the 50's- on but when asked about Gary Cooper, who she did several films with- including "The Fountainhead" which won her the Oscar- and had a long affair with, she told us he was "the love of her life"
it made me tear up to hear her talk on him.
I got to meet her grandaughters as well, gorgeous girls- should be though- their grandmother is Patricia, their grandfather is Roald Dahl and their sis is model Sophie Dahl
Thanks for the Talmadge sister pics- I love them...also Norma was married to Buster Keaton.
I have pictures of their house together in a book.
Re. the Olive Thomas collection, I need to get that...there are ads for it in the Cinecon booklet I got...love her and love docus!
Another sister act from the silent era I had never heard of but got interested after seeing "Danger Signal" at Cinecon which was considered a lost title but was recently recovered with a few missing scenes are the Novaks.
Jane Novak is the star of this film and she is gorgeous with huge eyes of blue and lovely features...
these are all from silentladies.com
love the paper dollies!Cheiby, you are wonderful and welcome Bagsnthings! Joan Crawford in the late 20's very early 30's is my favorite dresser
Somnambule, glad you liked seeing Diana aka Baby Peggy- she told great stories about 'Uncle Carl"- who created Universal Studios...as I mentioned before, I met Carl's real niece Carla who danced and is amazing...both Diana and Carla, I have their contact info to keep up with them as I had such a great time talking and looking at their pictures.
When Baby Peggy was only 3 and 4, she had her own limo and driver at her disposal
she was such a cutie and she is precious still.At the screening of "The Spoilers" which was from 1913- or 14- I sat by her and she was very into watching the film and laughing, very alert and peppy for her age...she must be around 80...'The Spoilers" btw was shot in my very neighborhood too
Patricia Neal was from the era of the 50's- on but when asked about Gary Cooper, who she did several films with- including "The Fountainhead" which won her the Oscar- and had a long affair with, she told us he was "the love of her life"
it made me tear up to hear her talk on him.I got to meet her grandaughters as well, gorgeous girls- should be though- their grandmother is Patricia, their grandfather is Roald Dahl and their sis is model Sophie Dahl
Thanks for the Talmadge sister pics- I love them...also Norma was married to Buster Keaton.
I have pictures of their house together in a book.
Re. the Olive Thomas collection, I need to get that...there are ads for it in the Cinecon booklet I got...love her and love docus!
Another sister act from the silent era I had never heard of but got interested after seeing "Danger Signal" at Cinecon which was considered a lost title but was recently recovered with a few missing scenes are the Novaks.
Jane Novak is the star of this film and she is gorgeous with huge eyes of blue and lovely features...
these are all from silentladies.com
I found this about her and her sis Eva---
from IMDB
Height
5' 6¾" (1.70 m)
soulful, fragile-looking blonde, Jane Novak's career supposedly began when a director saw her teenage photo on the makeup table of her aunt, film star Anne Schafer. From 1913, Jane started to appear in short films, eventually co-starring with the best Hollywood had to offer -- William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Buck Jones and Richard Dix, among many others. At one point she was Hart's fiancée after divorcing actor Frank Newburg, but it ended. Younger sister Eva Novak would quickly follow in Jane's acting footsteps, both of their careers playing out until the advent of sound. Jane made a fortune in the late 20s in real estate and film production, but lost it all after the 1929 stock market crash. She returned occasionally to tiny acting roles in the late 30s and could be glimpsed from time to time for the next couple of decades. Died in her 90s of a stroke.
This montage of pics from geaneologyofsofthistory.com has Baby Peggy in the very center with Jane Novak just below her!
This is from the NYTimes- which talks about her aunt being an actress and how she was resembled Alice Joyce
The older and more successful of the two Novak sisters (Eva Novak also appeared in films), Jane Novak became known as the strong outdoorsy type and was often cast in Northwest melodramas. A niece, by marriage, of actress Anne Seymour, Novak was awarded a contract by the Kalem company in 1913, mainly because she resembled "a blonde Alice Joyce." Earning ten dollars a week for her services, Novak appeared in a couple of rough-and-tumble one-reelers before switching to the more prominent Vitagraph company, where she was awarded a well-deserved raise and starring roles opposite the likes of Jack Mower, William Duncan, and Western favorite Myrtle Gonzales.
Here is a portrait of sister Eva from silentladies-
she also was a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty and got into acting upon urging from her sis Jane. She appeared in 'Sunset Blvd."
from IMDB
Height
5' 6¾" (1.70 m)
soulful, fragile-looking blonde, Jane Novak's career supposedly began when a director saw her teenage photo on the makeup table of her aunt, film star Anne Schafer. From 1913, Jane started to appear in short films, eventually co-starring with the best Hollywood had to offer -- William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Buck Jones and Richard Dix, among many others. At one point she was Hart's fiancée after divorcing actor Frank Newburg, but it ended. Younger sister Eva Novak would quickly follow in Jane's acting footsteps, both of their careers playing out until the advent of sound. Jane made a fortune in the late 20s in real estate and film production, but lost it all after the 1929 stock market crash. She returned occasionally to tiny acting roles in the late 30s and could be glimpsed from time to time for the next couple of decades. Died in her 90s of a stroke.
This montage of pics from geaneologyofsofthistory.com has Baby Peggy in the very center with Jane Novak just below her!
This is from the NYTimes- which talks about her aunt being an actress and how she was resembled Alice Joyce
The older and more successful of the two Novak sisters (Eva Novak also appeared in films), Jane Novak became known as the strong outdoorsy type and was often cast in Northwest melodramas. A niece, by marriage, of actress Anne Seymour, Novak was awarded a contract by the Kalem company in 1913, mainly because she resembled "a blonde Alice Joyce." Earning ten dollars a week for her services, Novak appeared in a couple of rough-and-tumble one-reelers before switching to the more prominent Vitagraph company, where she was awarded a well-deserved raise and starring roles opposite the likes of Jack Mower, William Duncan, and Western favorite Myrtle Gonzales.
Here is a portrait of sister Eva from silentladies-
she also was a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty and got into acting upon urging from her sis Jane. She appeared in 'Sunset Blvd."
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First I have to say that this thread is superb!!! Thanx Orchide for all the info and lovely pictures, you deserve karma!!!
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Cheiby11 those Mary Pickford pics are GREAT, Thanx a lot!!!
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anna,loved the paperdolls !!
still around....of course.i did some baby peggy- "research" during the last days.i knew that i had seen her before but i couldn´t remember where.at last i found 3 pictures of her in a picture show annual from 1927 which i won at ebay once.i was so happy when i found them.i had to think of your picture and your experiences with her and suddenly it felt as if i had a personal connection to her .are my eyes betraying me or do you also think that one can still see the baby peggy that she was once in the woman that she is now? i wish i had a scanner so that i could share the pictures with you 
.2 pics are featured in an article called "how they grow up".in one pic she looks like a 5 perhaps 6 year old and it says:" baby peggy in one of her early films,a century comedy entitled "sweetie".the other pic is entitled "baby peggy´s latest portrait" and shows her wearing a babydoll dress and holding flowers in her hand.do you know how old she was when she started her movie carreer?
thanks for posting pictures and information about the novak-sisters.i´ve never heard of them before.
meanwhile i´ve searched for pictures of constance talmadge and remembered an article in a motion picture classic from september 1922.i found the interview quite hilarious (took it with a huge grain of salt ),so i´m going to write down some excerpts (there´s another article in the magazine in which marion davies claims that mary tudor was "just a medieval flapper" ...perhaps i´m going to type some exceprts of this later.)
"connie becomes a *****" by constance talmadge,as told to harry carr.
constance talmadge has studied the chinese at first hand in order to lend verisimilitude to her characterization in "east is west".
"trying to be a bernhardt in pajamas has complications.but it´s fun,nevertheless.i adore being a *****:you know i play a chinese girl in "east and west".
you know how it isicture fans have learned to be very particular.you can´t get away with it so easy as they can on the speaking stage.i had fairly to live chinese before i dared undertake this part.i have wallowed in chinese-ness until i flicker with emotion every time i pass a wash house."
"i had a dreadful time trying to eat with chopsticks.if i lived down in chinatown,they would have to put glue in the food to make it stick to those two slippery eating tools.when it comes to soup,why i pass:that´s all."
"when we began to make the picture,the director was afraid that the audience would see by my lips that i was speaking english,so i had to get another chinese tutor and learn to speak the right words in chinese.i am terribly conceited about this accomplishment.i spring my vocabulary on my adoring family until they cry for help.
for instance,i always adress my mother now as "tong low mow"-which means "sweet mama".
i call norma "lang nu si" - which means "pretty girl".you see they can´t very well object to that.i have a special phrase that iu reserve for extreme occasions:it means "chop his head off":it is more satisfactory than "damn" and a great more lady-like.you just have to bite the words off with a growl like a bulldog.
the first time you miss a drive at golf,just snap your teeth togehter and say "sut tow".it was worth all the trouble of acting the part to accumulate such a soul satisfier as that."
and here some pictures.sources:goldensilents.com,silentsaregolden.com,silentgents.com.
the first pic shows her together with her sister norma.
!! still around....of course
.i did some baby peggy- "research" during the last days.i knew that i had seen her before but i couldn´t remember where.at last i found 3 pictures of her in a picture show annual from 1927 which i won at ebay once.i was so happy when i found them.i had to think of your picture and your experiences with her and suddenly it felt as if i had a personal connection to her .are my eyes betraying me or do you also think that one can still see the baby peggy that she was once in the woman that she is now? i wish i had a scanner so that i could share the pictures with you .2 pics are featured in an article called "how they grow up".in one pic she looks like a 5 perhaps 6 year old and it says:" baby peggy in one of her early films,a century comedy entitled "sweetie".the other pic is entitled "baby peggy´s latest portrait" and shows her wearing a babydoll dress and holding flowers in her hand.do you know how old she was when she started her movie carreer?thanks for posting pictures and information about the novak-sisters.i´ve never heard of them before
.meanwhile i´ve searched for pictures of constance talmadge and remembered an article in a motion picture classic from september 1922.i found the interview quite hilarious (took it with a huge grain of salt
),so i´m going to write down some excerpts (there´s another article in the magazine in which marion davies claims that mary tudor was "just a medieval flapper" ...perhaps i´m going to type some exceprts of this later.)"connie becomes a *****" by constance talmadge,as told to harry carr.
constance talmadge has studied the chinese at first hand in order to lend verisimilitude to her characterization in "east is west".
"trying to be a bernhardt in pajamas has complications.but it´s fun,nevertheless.i adore being a *****:you know i play a chinese girl in "east and west".
you know how it is
icture fans have learned to be very particular.you can´t get away with it so easy as they can on the speaking stage.i had fairly to live chinese before i dared undertake this part.i have wallowed in chinese-ness until i flicker with emotion every time i pass a wash house.""i had a dreadful time trying to eat with chopsticks.if i lived down in chinatown,they would have to put glue in the food to make it stick to those two slippery eating tools.when it comes to soup,why i pass:that´s all."
"when we began to make the picture,the director was afraid that the audience would see by my lips that i was speaking english,so i had to get another chinese tutor and learn to speak the right words in chinese.i am terribly conceited about this accomplishment.i spring my vocabulary on my adoring family until they cry for help.
for instance,i always adress my mother now as "tong low mow"-which means "sweet mama".
i call norma "lang nu si" - which means "pretty girl".you see they can´t very well object to that.i have a special phrase that iu reserve for extreme occasions:it means "chop his head off":it is more satisfactory than "damn" and a great more lady-like.you just have to bite the words off with a growl like a bulldog.
the first time you miss a drive at golf,just snap your teeth togehter and say "sut tow".it was worth all the trouble of acting the part to accumulate such a soul satisfier as that."
and here some pictures.sources:goldensilents.com,silentsaregolden.com,silentgents.com.
the first pic shows her together with her sister norma.
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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.
Thanks for sharing that.
Re. Baby Peggy, she was 3 years old when she started I think I remember her saying
It shows how much perceptions have changed...*tsk, tsk, tsk* Oh Connie, if you talked like that nowadays, it would be racist.
Thanks for sharing that.
Re. Baby Peggy, she was 3 years old when she started I think I remember her saying
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