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Elegant Female Portraits

Classic black-and-white portraits of women from the early 20th century, featuring elegant attire and soft lighting, exuding grace and nostalgia.

Studio shot of Marie Barrientos famous opera singer

Postcard, historical, woman's portrait

12/31/1919. In the Image, the actress Pepita Díaz Artigas.

Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), actriz francesa, en la película Popea.

New York, New York: c. 1905 A Rotograph of actress Lillian Russell. It is Image # B-248 in the Series.

Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), English actress, 1906.Artist: Bassano Studio

Lily LANGTRY or Lady de Bathe, 1853-1929, English theatre actress and mistress of Prince of Wales, (future King Edward VII), photograph, 1927

Theda Bara (1885-1955) in 'Cleopatra' 1917.

Bucharest, Romania c, 1927A portrait of Queen Marie of Yugoslavia who is has become ill with measles while visiting her mother here, Queen Marie of Romania.

Emma Calve (1858-1942) French Operatic Soprano

04/30/1927. In the Image, the actress Anny Evera with a curious umbrella.

Portrait of Marlène Dietrich, Paramount, 1932 photograph photographic support gelatin silver print

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), Russian ballerina. 1916

Louise Edvina as Fiora in ""L'amore dei tre Re"" Chicago Grand Opera

12/31/1934. Millionaire Barbara Hutton, divorced wife of Prince Alexis Mdivani.

Raquel Meller. Francisca Márqués López (1888-1962). Cantante, cupletista y actriz española. Años 1920.

Mlle. Tamara Karsavina, of the Russian Imperial Ballet, who is appearing at the London Coliseum, 1909. 'MademoiseIle Karsavina is premiere danseuse of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburg. She learnt dancing at the Imperial School in that city, and graduated with a diploma of the first degree'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.

Portrait Asta Nielsen

United States: c. 1925 A doll modeled after the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette.

MISTINGUETTE, Jeanne Bourgeois, called (1873-1956). French music-hall actress and singer.

'Gladys Cooper', (1888-1971), c1930 Creator: Rita Martin.

Helena Forti as Marga

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Lucia Joyce, 1927-28, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Margarida Xirgu Subirà (1888-1969), actriz de teatro.

Beatrice Lillie (1894 - 1989) British actress, aka Lady Peel. The caption tells us that after scoring so many triumphs as one of England's greatest and wittiest revue stars, she has succumbed to the lure of the movies and, after a spell in Hollywood, is now starring in the Metro-Goldwyn picture, "Exit Smiling". In 1920 she married Sir Robert Peel who succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1925. 1926

Portrait of Bretty Compton

Photograph of Dolores del Rio (1904-1983) a Mexican actress, dancer and singer.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald circa February 1920

Maude Fealy (1881-1971), American actress, by Lizzie Caswall Smith, circa 1900-1910.

12/31/1940. Amparo Rivelles in an image dedicated to "To the admirers of Cifesa".

IVOR NOVELLO (Ivor Davies) Welsh actor of stage and screen, playwright and composer Date: 1893 - 1951

Delia Reinhardt in "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anonymous

Lucy Manon Actress Date: early 20th century

Raquel Meller. Francisca Márqués López (1888-1962). Cantante, cupletista y actriz española con abanico y mantilla española. Años 1930.

Portrait of Marlène Dietrich; Marlene Dietrich.

Una Merkel (1903 - 1986), American character actress, double for Lilian Gish

Madge Kennedy, Publicity Portrait for the Silent Film, "The Danger Game", Goldwyn Pictures, 1918

11/30/1917. "Touch" Gray "Fume" tape. Claire It Marie Louise House Model.

Viviane Romance, Three-Quarter length Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Carmen", DisCina (France), Scalera Film (Italy), 1942 with Film Release in 1944

Title: Yours, Fanny Rice , c1895. lithograph depicting Fanny Rice, 1936. Actress.

Pola Negri (1897-1987), Polish-born film and theatre star, seen here with her dog. 20th century

Portrait of Bruna Castagna wearing ornate headwear

Fritz Vogelstrom as Siegfried in the eponymous opera from Richard Wagner's tetralogie "The Ring of Nibelungen". Royal Opera House Dresden, New Studying 25.05.1913

Dolores Asunsolo y Lopez Negrete (3 August 1904 - 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del Rio, was a Mexican actress, dancer and singer.

Helena Forti as Sieglinde

Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) in Cleopatra at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 2, January 8, 1911.

LIBERTAD LAMARQUE.

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). French actress. Portrait. Engraving by Carretero, 1882. Colored.

Marie Studholme (1875-1930), English actress, 1906.Artist: Johnston & Hoffman

Eleanor Rodson

Photo of portrait of the Tuckerman sisters painted in Paris by G. P. A. Healy in 1841. 1841. Portraits, Photographs. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Mason, Hannah Parkman Tuckerman, 1805-1859, Eckley, Sophia May, 1822-1874

Agnes Rafaelle Kennedy Fitzgerald, Duchess of Leinster (d. 1993), American second wife of the 7th Duke of Leinster, pictured posing beside a painted portrait by Mrs Ambrose McEvoy. Date: 1934

Adriana Caselotti as "Snow White". January 10, 1939.

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Constance Bennett. Constance Campbell Bennett (1904-1965) an American stage, film, radio and television actress.

Eleonora Duse (Vigevano, 1858-Pittsburgh, 1924). Actriz italiana conocida como "La Divina", rival de Sarah Bernhardt.

Ruan Lingyu (April 26, 1910 - March 8, 1935), born Ruan Fenggen), was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her tragic suicide at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema. Her funeral procession was reportedly five kilometres (three miles) long, with three women committing suicide during the event.

The image depicts Liane de Pougy, a notable social figure, in a colored portrait around 1900, highlighting attire and visual style of the period.

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). French actress. Portrait. Engraving by Carretero, 1882. Colored.

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Diana Churchill. Diana Josephine Churchill (1913-1994) an English actress.

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 ñ August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-born American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years

Front cover of The Sketch magazine in March 1935, featuring a portrait by Dorothy Wilding of Mrs Ernest (Wallis) Simpson. The caption reads: 'Mrs Simpson is the beautiful wife of Mr. Ernest Simpson, and is one of the many attractive Americans in London society. She was formerly Miss Wallis-Warfield of Baltimore, U.S.A, and is the sister-in-law of Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley. Her centre parting and the chic simplicity of her dress are well-suited to her type of good looks'. Wallis would eventually

Romanian Royalty - Queen Maria (1875-1938) and Princess Ileana (1909-1991) - who later became the Archduchess of Austria. Date: circa 1910s

Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971), Anonymous

Portrait photograph with Miss Edna May, American actress and singer.

Actress Renee Adoree, Picture-Play Magazine Cover by Hal Phyfe, September 1925

Lady Louis Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicerine of India (1901 - 1960), formerly Edwina Ashley. Wife of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Date: 1930

Pauline Chase (1885 1962), American actress who performed on the stage in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Playing one of the Lost Boys in the debut of Peter Pan in London in 1904. Date: 1904

Jane Russell (1921 2011), American film actress. Date: 1921 - 2011

Madrid, 1939. Photograph of the actress María Guerrero López.

Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), English actress, 1907.Artist: Rotary Photo

Hollywood Portrait. Edward Sheriff Curtis (United States, 1868-1952). United States, 1920s. Photographs. Gelatin-silver print

Käthe von Nagy, c1928. Creator: Unknown.

Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten (born 1924), now Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, elder daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley. Date: 1930

March 1912. Anita Patrici, first triple singer of the comic opera company of the Prince Theater of Valencia.

Anita Louise (1915-1970) an American actress. Dated 20th Century

Anita Louise (1915 ñ 1970) American film actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935),

Miss Violet Gordon Selfridge, daughter of retail magnate, Harry Gordon Selfridge, pictured in The Tatler in 1916 which writes of her 'doing a lot of hard work in the cause of war charities, and has been also particularly employed at the army canteens, at which so many ladies are working devotedly.' Date: 1916

Actress Dorothy Phillips, Motion Picture Magazine Cover by Emil Flohri, December 1921

Actress Agnes Ayres, Motion Picture Classic Magazine Cover by Benjamin Eggleston, April 1922

Actress Leatrice Joy as the Character Taou Yuen from the Silent Film, "Java Head", Motion Picture Classic Magazine Cover by F. Dahl, April 1923

IVOR NOVELLO (Ivor Davies) Welsh actor of stage and screen, playwright and composer, with Isabel Jeans in 'The Rat' Date: 1927

Actress Vera Sisson, Motion Picture Classic Magazine Cover by Leo Sielke Jr., May 1916

Portrait montage of Lily Elsie. American Magazine, 1 May 1910. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Scrapbooks, Clippings. 1910-05-01. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Elsie, Lily, 1886-1962

Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik", 1921, (1935). Creator: Unknown.

Italian woman of Albanian or Greek ancestry, from Piticei, Basilicata, Italy, at Ellis Island, c. 1908. Photograph by Lewis Hine (BSLOC_2018_1_23)

China: Pan Xue-yan, a popular Chinese Opera actress during the 1920s

Actress Gloria Swanson and dog Teddy, 1915

Florence Lawrence (Lubin). Motion Pictures June 1912. Clippings, Programs. 1912-06. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Lawrence, Florence, 1890-1938

Sylvia Sidney, (1910 - 1999) American stage, screen and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s.

Jenny Dolly of Dally Sisters. June 02, 1930.

Tamara Desni (22 October 1913 ñ 7 February 2008) was a German-born British actress. Born as Tamara Brodsky, the daughter of actress Xenia Desni, Tamara Desni was born in Berlin.

Maureen O'Sullivan, MGM featured player with her tiny wired hair puppy ""Junior"", Miss O'Sulivan will be seen in the new Dressler-Beery picture ""Tugboat Annie""

Harry Houdini, King of Cards poster, c.1895

ESTRELLITA CASTRO. ESTRELLA CASTRO NAVARRETE. ACTRIZ Y CANTANTE ESPAÑPOLA. SEVILLA 1914 - 1983. " LA GITANILLA " AÑO 1 940. DIRECTOR FERNANDO DELGADO.

IMPERIO ARGENTINA. MAGDALENA NILE DELRIO. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. BUENOS AIRE 1908 -2002. PORTADA DE LA PARTITURA " LA FALSA MONEDA ".

CLARA BOW in RED HAIR (1928), directed by CLARENCE G. BADGER.

DENMARK - 1989: shows Bodil Ipsen 1889-1964, actress DENMARK - CIRCA 1989: A stamp printed in Denmark shows Bodil Ipsen 1889-1964, actress, circa 1989 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 4713266

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