1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[northernsky]

i am afraid my granny was way cooler than i am today.

i agree with you, there is something sad about those pictures. the last one shows mrs nielsen in the role of hamlet, so there has to be some tragedy in it.
but she surely played funny roles, too, i believe.

i just found this lovely pic of her and joachim ringelnatz. i think he is reading some of his funny rimes to her.

(from www.goest.de)

 

[lady stardust]

I love Pola Negris face and expression of pure DRAMA!!! The silent ladies was such queens of face expressions that´s why I LOVE them so much!!! some pics of the "sad eyed" Pola Negri.

source:ebay

 

[bleuFunk]

One of my favorites is Georgia Hale. She's in Charlie Chaplin's "Gold Rush", which is such a good movie. Plus, i think she looks a little like Shalom.

from www.silentsaregolden.com

 

[northernsky]

a few pictures of brigitte helm who played in fritz langs metropolis.

(from www.deutsches-filminstitut.com) (from dvdtoile.com)

(from www.vintagepostcards.com)

 

[northernsky]

greta schröder from friedrich murnaus nosferatu.

(from www.phantasmagoria.nl)

(from www.filmportal.de)

 

[northernsky]

an actress who is actually from the 1910s but i post her anway if you don't mind: theda bara. she seemed to be quite a vamp in her days.

(from www.asahi-net.or.jp)

(from www.halloweddings.com) (from www.hero.ac.uk)

(from www.filmkultura.hu)

 

[cheiby11]

the last one is really morbid LOL

Thank you

 

[northernsky]

clara bow

(from mysite.verizon.net)

i just watched roman holiday on DVD which had this special about edith head, and there was this guy (i have asolutely no idea who he is) who told how glad paramount was to have mrs head who got along with mrs bow because nobody of the other costume designers did (at least not like edith head did) the problem with clara bow was (the guy said) that she had absolutely no sense of style and didn't know how to dress herself. for example she liked to wear high heel pumps with ankle socks (and he gave the camera this look.. "with ankle socks") that was too funny.

(and i don't think that would have been too cruel a sight on clara bow.)

 

[travis_nw8]

^clara bow in that pic kinda reminds me of helen hunt...

 

[northernsky]

oh, you are right. but i think it's just the pic, she normally has a round face, it's not square(?) like helen hunt's.

 

[northernsky]

gloria swanson.

she frightened me so much in "sunset boulevard" but she was really beautiful when she was younger. i love that famous bob-picture. here are some other pics of her:

(from www.theatrehistory.com)

(all from home.hiwaay.net)

(from allposters.com)

i love her facial expression here but i'm a bit confused.. are that towels she has her hands on? is it a movie scene? maybe someone could tell me which movie it is and what she is doing. i can't figure it out.

 

[cheiby11]

I really love this old, black and white pics... thank you

 

[northernsky]

more gloria swanson.

(from www.alohacriticon.com)

(from home.hiwaay.net)

(from www.cyranos.ch) . . . (from freeweb.supereva.com)

(from silentgents.com)

 

[northernsky]

gloria swanson.

cheiby, still more.

gloria swanson by edward steichen:

(http://www.fp1.com/sept98/features/staleywise2000/fullshow/img/27.jpg)

some blue-tinted picture postcard which i liked (it's a film still.)

(from www.sunrisesilents.com)

 

[northernsky]

gloria swanson.

(from www.shortsupport.com)

(from www.authentichistory.com)

reading, listening to records, smoking..

(from www.moviecard.com)

(from www.robmacdougall.org)

(from cinema.concordia.ca)

 

[northernsky]

bebe daniels.

something for cheiby

bebe daniels driving her car.

she's one of those actresses i never heard of..

Bebe Daniels [1901-1971] toured already at the age of four in a stage production of Richard III the US, she had her first leading role at the age of seven and started her film career shortly after this in movies for Imperial, Pathe and others. With 13 she was Harold Lloyds leading lady in the "Lonesome Luke" comedies. She stared in movies of DeMille and later for Paramount. After the arriavl of sound, she had no problems with this fact because she had a beautiful singing voice and so she became a major musical star, with such hits like "Rio Rita" and "42nd Street". In 1930 she married Ben Lyon, with whom she went to England in the mid 30s, where she became a successful Westend star and with her husband a famous radio team. Her movie career drifted away after the mid 30s. [www.imdb.com]

..but i found some really pretty pictures on silentladies.

(from silentladies.com)

 

[northernsky]

i just read this story about her, that al capone himself was one of her biggest fans in the 20s. when her jewellery was stolen from her hotel room one day, he took care of that.. he announced that mrs daniel's jewellery should be given back to her, otherwise: and it was returned within the next day.

wow.

 

[northernsky]

bebe daniels playing table tennis with charlie chaplin?

(from: www.larrytt.com)

some other pics from this side (i didn't know table tennis used to be such a stylish sport game.)

joan crawford against dorothy sebastian.

 

[cheiby11]

DON'T STOP!!! GO ON

I love it!

 

[cheiby11]

These are pictures of the Czech actress Adina Mandlova. She was really great and beautiful. ANd her life was so diffucult