Mary Kid painted as a skeleton for her role in “Die Tochter des Kunstreiters”
Marcelle Chantal : Extase, 1927 © Albert Rudomine [more here]
from Îles et archipels, photographies 1850-2010
Until July 13
Galerie Michèle Chomette
24, rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris
thanks to exquisite La Lettre
[they really deserved that LIFE photo blog award;]
Mack Sennett Girls, 1915
from ‘Pin-up,certaines l’aiment show’ - pin-ups through the ages exhibition at Cannes
From La Folie Du Docteur Tube,1915
thanks again to bent for this discovery
Lila Lee, late 1920s by Irving Chidnoff
[His first sale to the New York Times was a full-body portrait of Dorothy Brown in the operetta ‘Polly’ published on October 25, 1925. Four months later, Edward Steichen accepted Chidnoff’s first submission to Vanity Fair]
from AliceJapan
Jetta Goudal wearing a satin gown by Lanvin, 1923 by Edward Steichen *
from Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937
“To be good is to be forgotten. I’m going to be so bad I’ll always be remembered.”
-Theda Bara, quoted in “The Confessions of Theda Bara”, Photoplay Magazine (1920)
from oldhollywood
Olive Thomas by Maurice Goldberg *
from Theatre Magazine, March 1919.
publicity still for 1916 film A Daughter of the Gods