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silentdivasblog · 3 days

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Jobyna Ralston ❤️

#silent film #silent era #silent actress #jobyna ralston #silent comediennes #silent comedy #1920s cinema #silent film actresses #vintage beauty

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jeanharlowshair · 7 months

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Picture-Play Magazine, April 1927.

#norma shearer #1920s #picture-play magazine #old hollywood #old magazines #old movies #old movie stars #old hollywood glamour #classic hollywood #old hollywood actress #1920s style #1920s movies #silent film actresses #silent movies #silent film #1920s fashion #1920s cinema #20s movies #silent actress

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yamvience · 7 months

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Clara Bow, a famous silent film actress dolled up for Halloween 👻🎃!

#clara bow #silent film #silent films #talkies #1920s #1930s #silent film actresses #autumn #october #halloween #october 31st #spooky #pumpkin #vintage #20th century #20th century fox

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vintagequeens · 8 months

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Louise Brooks

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thebrikbox · 23 days

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The Great Greta Garbo

Glamorous, compelling, and ever so famous was the iconic movie star, Greta Garbo. She graced Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s with films like “Wild Orchids” and “The Kiss.” Altogether, she starred in thirty-three films and captivated men and women alike.

Greta was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden and died April 15, 1990 in New York City at the age of 84 to pneumonia. Her childhood was that of poverty where her family lived in the slums. Her father was an itinerant laborer and didn’t earn much money to give his family the life he wanted for them to have. When Greta was old enough to work, she took various positions to help ease the strain of supporting the family.

One fateful day, film director Erik Petschler saw Greta and was mesmerized with her beauty after seeing her in a commercial advertising women’s clothing and he offered her a small role in his 1922 film “Peter the Tramp.” She was bitten by the acting bug and she started school at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. She landed a major role in a 1925 Swedish movie “Gösta Berlings Saga” (The Saga of Gösta Berling). The director, Mauritz Stiller changed her birth name to Garbo as he felt it was fitting and becoming for her unique beauty. Seeing her potential, he negotiated with MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Studios in Hollywood and secured her a contract. Louis B. Mayer had doubts about Greta’s screen performance until the release of her first American 1926 film “The Torrent.” Her lustrous glow and the fluidity of how she moved impressed Mayer so much so that he gave her an exclusive contract.

1930’s “Anna Christie” was Greta’s first sound film. The movie was marketed with “Garbo talks!” She would earn three Oscar nominations for best actress for her performances in “Anna Christie,” “Camille,” and for “Ninotchka.” She never did win, but she did receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1955. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performance in 1935’s Anna Karenina. Her last film was “Two-Faced Woman” in 1941 and it received bad reviews that greatly humiliated her. Her acting life halted despite offers for other films after the movie flop.

Greta never married nor did she have children. Her first romance was with her often co-Star John Gilbert. In her latter years, she had a relationship with Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It’s rumored that she had an affair with Russian-born millionaire George Schlee, stealing him from his wife. It’s specualted that Greta was bisexual, some would claim she was predominantly lesbian, but no one could confirm that. Though she appeared in events, she disliked the feeling uncomfortable acting like a socialite because it wasn’t who she was.

Greta would live the remainder of her life in a New York City apartment. She was an honored guest in the White House and She received treatment for breast cancer and would have dialysis treatment at a local hospital where she would later die from pneumonia. She will always be regarded as one of the most beautiful and graceful women that gifted us with her talent.

Until next time, Aloha oe.

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seventh-victim · 7 months

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still image of actress Louise Glaum in the 1916 drama, The Wolf Woman

#film still #silent film #silent film actresses #louise glaum #the wolf woman #1916

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thegloriousolivethomas · 1 year

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Olive Thomas as Ivis Benson in “The Glorious Lady” (1919, Selznick Pictures)

#Olive Thomas #The Glorious Lady #silent film #old hollywood #silent film actresses

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eyesfullofmoon · 1 year

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Greta Garbo in publicity stills for The Divine Woman (1928).

Photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise on November 9, 1927.

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justbusterkeaton · 1 year

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“Put a smile on yer face, can’t yer?”

In Go West (1925), Buster does a pastiche of the then very famous scene from the film Broken Blossoms (1919) with Lillian Gish

#buster keaton #lillian gish #go west #go west 1925 #broken blossoms 1919 #d.w. griffith #silent film actresses #silent movie stars #comedy #silent movies #1920s #silent film #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #1920s cinema #silent comedy #1910s

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pazzesco · 8 months

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Maude Fealy c 1902

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Maude Fealy

Maude Fealy (born Maude Mary Hawk; March 4, 1883 – November 9, 1971) was an American stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the sound era.

In 1896, she made her debut at the Elitch Theatre playing various children's roles. Her first appearance was during the week of July 19 in Henry Churchill de Mille's The Lost Paradise. In 1905, Churchill de Mille's son Cecil B. DeMille was hired as a stock player at Elitch Theatre, and Fealy appeared as the featured actress in several plays. Their friendship continued for decades, including when DeMille cast Fealy in his film The Ten Commandments.

#maude fealy #vintage photography #silent film actresses #colorization

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minayuri · 1 month

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Aud Egede-Nissen - Norwegian actress who acted in many German films of the silent era - such as Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, F. W. Murnau's Phantom, and Arthur Robison's Peter the Pirate.

She also portrayed Christine Daaé in a 1916 adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, the film is considered lost.

#aud egede-nissen #1910s #1920s #norwegian actress #silent era #silent film #silent film actresses #silent film stars #german cinema #beautiful #vintage beauty #my post

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silentdivasblog · 6 months

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