Fern Andra in Des Lebens ungemischte Freude,1917
Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld (Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Der Stümme Film; 28
from Performing Arts [also here]
Workmen steadying a delicately balanced prop on which an actress is perched. She is portraying the Whore Of Babylon sitting astride a seven-headed serpent, in the Fritz Lang German classic Metropolis,1926
Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images and AwaxNews
Witches gather at the Walpurgisnacht celebration on Bald Mountain in Faust (1926, dir. F. W. Murnau). The scene later inspired the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from Fantasia (1940)
Mary Kid painted as a skeleton for her role in “Die Tochter des Kunstreiters”
Betty Amann in Asphalt, 1929 [see also]
from frenchtwist
Brigitte Helm by Horst von Harbou in MetropoliS,1927
from postalesporinternet
Surimpression, 1929
[Two portraits of Brigitte Helm from L’Argent,1928, reproduced on the cover of the magazine “Berliner Zeitung Illustrirte” January 13, 1929]
by Studio Lorelle / Lucien Lorelle
via Yann Le Mouel
Leni Riefenstahl in The Holy Mountain (1926, dir. Arnold Fanck)
from oldhollywood [also as postcard here]
Brigitte Helm and Fritz Lang on the set of Metropolis,1925-26
by Horst von Harbou [brother of screenwriter Thea von Harbou]
Betty Amann * and Gustav Fröhlich in Asphalt,1929
Lil Dagover as Jane and Conrad Veidt as Cesare, somnambulist
in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,1920 *
from carbonated
frenchtwist:via tapwaterjackson:Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)
Via P-E Fronning [another one here]
fabtastic find,thanks to theloudestvoice:] Valerie Boothby
“German actress Valerie Boothby (1906-1982) was a popular star of the Weimar cinema in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. She entered the film business in 1925 during the heydays of the German silent cinema.”