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Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939

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[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:02 UTC

Olga Baclanova and Paul Lukas in The Wolf of Wall Street (1929). Photo by Eugene Robert Richee.

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Louise in a soft-focus portrait by the G. L. Manuel Frères studio in Paris, 1929.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

Portuguese actress Beatriz Costa, 1929.

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Loretta Young by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1928.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:12 UTC

We get you two confused sometimes. 😄

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

As brothel party attendees vie for her attention, Louise as Thymian spots her father across the room in a climactic scene from Diary of a Lost Girl (1929).

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:53 UTC

Lili Damita by Ernest Bachrach for Friends and Lovers (1931). #botd

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:51 UTC

Nancy Carroll by Eugene Robert Richee for The Devil’s Holiday (1930).

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:50 UTC

I spent way too much time trying to figure that out. It certainly looks like her in profile — perhaps a pic from Now We’re In the Air (1927) — but the photo remains a mystery to me.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

When Biden goes down to defeat in November I’m anxiously awaiting the finger-pointing at those of us who expressed doubts in early July about his ability to aggressively take down Trump — the worst, weakest and most disliked major party candidate in a century.

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:39 UTC

“The Biden team demands your loyalty” feels kinda MAGA to me.

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Carmel Myers by Clarence Sinclair Bull, mid-1920’s.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

The full image:

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:35 UTC

Louise from a fashion portrait by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

L'Oreal hair dye ad, 1927. Artwork by Claude Lepape.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Susan Hayward, 1939.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

Louise and Georges Charlia in a publicity still for Prix de Beauté (1930).

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Myrna Loy in a publicity portrait for Renegades (1930)

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 08:16 UTC

Another take by Schafer for Columbia Pictures’ Roaming Lady (1936). Fay models the same outfit minus the wrapped slit skirt but fortunately the same shoe/sock combo. 👌

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 08:15 UTC

Fay Wray by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer, 1936.

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

The full image:

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

Another take of Gene from a still for The Shanghai Gesture (1941).

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[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

Gene Tierney takes a seat at the bar in The Shanghai Gesture (1941).

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

Lita Chevret for Fox Movietone Follies (1929).

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[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

Louise by G.Y. Nishiyama in one of her earliest Paramount publicity photos taken around the time of her screen debut in The Street of Forgotten Men (1925).

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Frances Dee, 1943.

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Ann Harding by Ernest A. Bachrach, 1934.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

Model turned actress Ruth Ford in a portrait by George Platt Lynes, 1936. Her friend Orson Welles would be instrumental in helping launch her brief Hollywood film career in 1941. #botd

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

And there I was thinking Ferd was a typo.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

Just guessing here but that looks like a book of wallpaper samples. 🤔

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:48 UTC

The Richee image of Louise reworked as an illustration for the cover of Cinearte magazine, 1927:

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

Louise in fur and cloche hat. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 08:23 UTC

British actress Francis Cuyler by E.O. Hoppé, 1925.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:59 UTC

What’s with the boots? 🤔

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:50 UTC

Flashback.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:47 UTC

That’s a keeper.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

Segue into Costello’s “Clowntime Is Over.”

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

It’s a rare gift.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:21 UTC

Another take of Clara from The Fleet’s in (1928). Perhaps the “before” pic.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 07:19 UTC

Clara Bow for The Fleet’s In (1928). Also, mood.

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[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:42 UTC

Here’s a classic shot of Theda by Jack Freulich, 1915:

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Wanda Hawley by Hoover Art Company, 1919.

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

Another take of Irene by Bull as featured in Motion Picture, September 1931. RKO loaned her to MGM for The Great Lover (1931).

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:43 UTC

Irene Dunne by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931.

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

Choose your Saturday mood. Myrna Loy, Conrad Nagel, William Russell, and George E. Stone in State Street Sadie (1928).

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

The full image. The following year Mary would cut her long locks and begin preparation for her first sound film: Coquette (1929). Trivia: She married “Buddy” in 1937, a year after her divorce from Douglas Fairbanks.

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

Mary Pickford gets a lift from Charles “Buddy” Rogers in a still from her last silent film My Best Girl (1927).

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

Louise in costume for Now We’re in the Air (1927). Photo by Eugene Robert Richee.

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

Janet and her “white linen sunsuit with 14k embossed polka dots” in stills with John Wayne for Jet Pilot (1957). Hughes was hoping for an aerial epic but ended up with a dud that the N.Y. Times critic called “silly and sorry.”

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[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

Two more of Janet by Kahle for Jet Pilot (1957), a troubled Howard Hughes production that began shooting in 1949 but wasn’t completed until 1953. Further extensive re-editing and studio reshuffling kept it on the shelf until 1957.

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