1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[northernsky]

alice joyce who had quite an unusual face i think. she looks like an intelligent mature woman but not too earnest. i love the last picture of her..

[from www.thepcfixer.co.uk]

 

[northernsky]

corinne griffith, "the orchid lady" of silent screen. she was incredibly beautiful and a good actress, too, but she had no outstanding film roles, nevertheless, she was a star in her days.

[from www.thepcfixer.co.uk]

 

[DosViolines]

Beautiful pics northernsky

And your book is wonderfull

Joan Crawford (at least that's what the website said, I can't recognize her )



somnambule, I found a similar pic of the one where martha mansfield holds a glass sphere, only this one is with mabel normand




source: doctormacro.com

 

[DosViolines]

Caja Eric (of the Ziegfeld Follies)



Helen Hayes (I this picture!)



Jean Ackerman (also of the Ziegfeld Follies)



Dolores Costello



source: doctormacro.com

 

[lady stardust]

northernsky and dosviolines those pics are SO GREAT!!! thanx for sharing!!!

 

[northernsky]

Joan Crawford (at least that's what the website said, I can't recognize her )

i have the same 'problem' with her in very old pictures. she really has changed a lot.

very beautiful pictures as usual. thank you.

i love how they had that milk-like skin, before tanning became a must.


one of the most adorable trios in film history, don't you think?
[from www.printsandphotos.com]

 

[northernsky]

corinne griffith, eleanor boardman, and bebe daniels.

[from www.vernacularphotography.com]​

 

[DosViolines]

Betty Browne


Elsie Ferguson


Dorothy Mackaill


Ruby Keeler


Annette Bade




source: doctormacro.com

 

[DosViolines]

Ruth Etting, Susan Fleming, Adrienne Ames, Billie Burke and Constance Binney


source: doctormacro.com

 

[DosViolines]

Dorothy Dalton, Evelyn Laye, Bonnie Murray, Billie Dove and Geraldine Farrar.



Katherine Burke and Jeanne Eagels.



source: doctormacro.com

 

[northernsky]

wonderful!

the only one i think i have ever heard of is jeanne eagels.

"Never deny. Never explain. Say nothing and become a legend." ​

(Quote attributed to Jeanne Eagels.)


[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Jeanne Eagels (1890-1929) was one of the greatest actresses of the early 20th Century. Open any comprehensive book on the Broadway stage or film of the 1920s and you will almost certainly see references to the "legendary Jeanne Eagels" and her death at age 39 from a drug overdose. What makes her legendary as an actress, however, is rarely described in depth. She is justifiably remembered for creating the character of Sadie Thompson, the floozy stranded in Pago Pago in the John Colton/Clemence Randolph play "Rain." This play ran on Broadway for over 648 performances, still one of the record holders for longevity 80 years later. During its Broadway run, Eagels missed only an estimated 18-28 performances, which testifies to her stamina, if not her commitment to acting. Nationwide, Eagels was seen in "Rain" by over 1 million theater-goers. [from www.jeanneeagels.com] [/FONT]

 

[northernsky]

"With her strong chin and slightly upturned nose, Eagels' profile was admired and highly recognized during her heyday in the 1920s. Her profile may even have been as famous as John Barrymore's. There are several photo-portraits of Eagles in profile. In her existing films, there are frequently rather long takes of her in profile." [from www.jeanneeagels.com]

 

[northernsky]

i'm liking broken blossoms better and better.
lillian gish is just so --- there are no words for what she is..

i just found this picture of her on ebay, and thought it was noteworthy because she looks so different but fascinating all the same. i can't help but staring at that face all the time.

 

[somnambule]

dosviolines and northernsky,your pics are so beautiful that i become immodest in my wish for more .
dosviolines,i have never seen a picture of helen hayes en pointe.that´s really a rare gem.thanks !i also love the picture of geraldine ferrar you posted.i searched for pictures of her a while ago (i think i´ve posted them earlier in this thread)but couldn´t come up with a picture as beautiful as the one you posted.

northernsky,haha,sometimes i feel as if i had a 100 years or more...but for different reasons.your book seems like a rare treasure.thanks for sharing the pictures .i agree with your impressions regarding alice joyce.i wish i could see dancing mothers in which she plays clara bow´s mother.she was apparently one of the first silent film stars,at a time when the film industry was still in new york.she then came out of fashion,becuase her un-flapper like elegance and dignity made her seem old-fashioned.the third picture you posted is also my favourite.as far as i remember i´ve posted some pictures of her earlier in this thread.
thanks so much for the pics of the gish-sisters and richard barthelmess.he´s my favourite silent film-actor.you can tell how small he was on the second pic you posted!!
yes,broken blossoms is a masterpiece.the poetry of silence.the use of spoken words would ruin the emotional intensity.there´s another griffith-gish-barthelmess film you might enjoy :"way down east" from 1920.it´s a very old-fashioned film,very victorian in its depiction of morals,yet lillian gish and richard barthelmess make it worthwhile.
i agree that the picture of lillian gish that you posted above is very unusual....and very interesting .

dosviolines inspired me to post 2 pictures of ruth etting which i found a while ago.i´m only familiar with her as a singer though.
sources:i really can´t remember.i will try to search for them later .

 

[somnambule]

sylvia sidney....(source:corbis.com)

 

[northernsky]

your book seems like a rare treasure. [...] she was apparently one of the first silent film stars,at a time when the film industry was still in new york.she then came out of fashion,becuase her un-flapper like elegance and dignity made her seem old-fashioned.the third picture you posted is also my favourite.as far as i remember i´ve posted some pictures of her earlier in this thread.

haa, the book is from the fifties and it's very amusing to see how perceptions have changed. e.g. "the flapper" is sometimes described as some kind of evil. the author took great pains to distinct the actresses he adored from "the flapper". maybe i will put some excerpts online later, so you can see what i mean.

thanks so much for the pics of the gish-sisters and richard barthelmess.he´s my favourite silent film-actor.you can tell how small he was on the second pic you posted!!

aww, yes he was somewhat small. but it always suited his roles, i think. (and he wisely never starred next to george o'brien or someone like that, didn't he? )

yes,broken blossoms is a masterpiece.the poetry of silence.the use of spoken words would ruin the emotional intensity.there´s another griffith-gish-barthelmess film you might enjoy :"way down east" from 1920.it´s a very old-fashioned film,very victorian in its depiction of morals,yet lillian gish and richard barthelmess make it worthwhile.

i just found out broken blossoms was tinted in the original version, but i have only a black and white copy. let's see if the video store has the tinted one. and i will definitely be looking for way down east, too. i won't let the morals get in my way.

 

[northernsky]

^i meant to write "distinguish", of course, not "distinct".

alma rubens, lili damita, brigitte helm and kitten. [from www.imvamp.com/photoshare]

 

[northernsky]

Marguerite Clark

(1883-1940)


Born in Avondale (now part of Cincinnati), Ohio, on February 22, 1883, Helen Marguerite Clark was under the guardianship of an elder sister from the age of 13. With her sister's encouragement, she sought a career on the stage. She made her New York debut in 1900 and had a number of minor roles before winning the ingenue role of Polly in Mr. Pickwick in 1903; this was the role that brought her her first popularity. Over the next decade her fame grew. She appeared in Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland (1903), The Pied Piper (1908), and the very popular Baby Mine (1910), among many other plays.

In 1914 Clark accepted a lavish offer from Adolph Zukor and signed on with his Famous Players film company (soon to become Famous Players-Lasky and eventually Paramount). Her first film, Wildflower, was a great success and was followed over the next five years by such films as The Crucible, Gretna Green, Seven Sisters, The Prince and the Pauper (in which she played both roles), Topsy and Eva (another double role, in a screenplay based on Uncle Tom's Cabin), Rich Man Poor Man, Snow White, and others. Her tiny figure and air of sweet youthful innocence made her enormously popular and a major rival of Mary Pickford. Clark's portrayal of Snow White was said to have shaped the much later Walt Disney animated version. Clark married in 1918, and on the expiration of her contract she retired from the movies in 1919. She returned only to appear in Scrambled Wives in 1921. Clark died in New York, New York, on September 25, 1940.

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[northernsky]

from www.things-and-other-stuff.com

 

[northernsky]

*swoooosh!*

have you seen it?!
way down east on its way on top of my favourite films-list.

we already agreed lillian gish is divine, didn't we? she looked so out-of-this-world, i can't even put it in words. her performance was just perfect, and the scene in which she runs out into the storm was mere beauty. i want that cape! i loved the cape-thingies she wore, although they were quite old-fashioned for the 20ies. but so lovely. i wanted to have a similar one last year. but helas.. i couldn't find one.