1930s Actresses

[Luxury's Lap]

Some photos from the 1934 movie Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert....

I need to see this movie!

(all from ebay)

 

[lady stardust]

Luxurys Lap those pics are GREAT!!! Thanxs for sharing!!!

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Although she does have her own thread, here's a few of Marlene Dietrich (all from eBay)

 

[Luxury's Lap]

And another 1930's actress from Mexico, Lupe Velez (all pics from eBay)

Some sad trivia from imdb.com:

Lupe wanted to be remembered; that was her one wish. Since she was not being remembered by her films, she decided to be remembered by her suicide. She had everything planned; the pretty silk night gown, and make-up, the position. She knew that picture would make front cover news the next day. Unfortunatly, her over-dose of pills didn't settle well with her last meal, so they found her with her head in the toilet. Amazingly enough, she got what she wanted, she is remembered, just not the way she thought she would be.
She was pregnant at the time of her death, and in her suicide note named French actor Harald Maresch as the father. She was 36 when she died.

 

[DosViolines]

Peggy Shannon

From IMDb
Drank herself to death. On May 11, 1941, her last husband, Albert G. Roberts (born 11 October 1902), and his friend found her slumped over the kitchen table dead with her head down on her arms, a cigarette in her mouth, and an empty glass in her hand. 19 days after Shannon's death, Roberts fatally shot himself to death right on the spot where she died.
Became stage actress in New York in 1926.
In 1931, Paramount's Bud Schulberg signed her up to replace the "It" girl, Clara Bow in the movie "Secret Call" after Bow suffered a nervous breakdown.
Was a Ziegfield Girl for a while in the twenties.
Appeared in a Broadway play "Page Miss Glory" which opened November 27th, 1934 as the girlfriend of a then-unknown Jimmy Stewart.

source: doctormacro.com

source: http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/246/Peggy++Shannon/

 

[DosViolines]

Myrna Loy


source: http://216.150.78.130/headshop/Archive/10/index5.htm

 

[DosViolines]

Carole Lombard


source: http://216.150.78.130/headshop/Archive/C/carlom.htm

 

[DosViolines]

...one more (same source)

 

[thehepburn]

Thank DosViolines I love carole Lombard. She was a muse for my favorite Hollywood costume designer -- Travis Banton. Do you have any pics of her in some Banton gowns?

 

[cheiby11]

Travis Banton dressed Marlene Dietrich as well

 

[cheiby11]

1935 in the Devil is a Woman

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[cheiby11]

1936 in Desire

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[cheiby11]

1937 in the romantic drama Angel

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[cheiby11]

two more

 

[cheiby11]

Marlene worn his clothes also in private life!

1938 walking in Paris with her husband Rudolf Sieber

She is wearing a tailored suit designed by Travis Banton with a fox fur and a peak hat tilted over one eye. Her husband sports a fleck tweed overcoat over a chalk stripe suit.

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[cheiby11]

1932 in the film Shanghai Express

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[thehepburn]

thanks cheiby. I love the gold and jewel encrusted gown in post #171, by all accounts, it was one of Paramount's most expensive gowns ever but Banton's collaboration with Marlene is really over the top.
I think that's why I prefer his wardrobe for Lombard. it was slinky and sometimes romantic, certainly more approachable

 

[Luxury's Lap]

I found this picture and the following description on jetsetmodern.com:

For 1932's Shanghai Express, Travis Banton and Marlene Dietrich worked together to find exactly the right coq feathers and veiling for this shot (1 and at top of article). The feathers had to have a certain iridescence, and the veiling had to repeat the shadows from the Venetian blinds of the train window. In the 1937 comedy Nothing Sacred, Banton knew that Carole Lombard would look her best in blue, but the Technicolor process tended to exaggerate the color. This beaded dress and its matching fox furs were a much lighter blue than they appear here (2). In 1935, Dietrich made her last Josef von Sternberg movie, The Devil Is a Woman. Banton's most phantasmagorical mode is seen in (3); Dietrich is supposedly a factory worker, circa 1900. Dispensing with historical accuracy, the designer gave her a leg slit, sequined flounces, and pailletted stockings. In the same movie, Dietrich's first appearance (4) is in a strapless dress- completely inaccurate for the period- worn with a domino mask and a mantilla made of pom-pom fringe. The round pom-poms deliberately echo the shape of the balloons.

 

[Luxury's Lap]

A few more shots of Lombard (from meredy.com)

 

[Luxury's Lap]

Banton did Lombard's clothes in My Man Godfrey, so here are some shots from that (classicmoviefavorites.com)