Silent Film Actresses

Elegant and nostalgic portraits of silent film actresses, displaying classic fashion and timeless beauty from the early cinema era.

Portrait of Ivy Sawyer, actress, singer, dancer

USA, New York, Studio shot of Fania Marinoff in ""The Walk-offs"" at Morosco Theatre, 1918

Miss Birss coupon studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

MELLER , RAQUEL. FRANCISCA MARQUEZ LOPEZ. TONADILLERA ESPAÑOLA. TARAZONA 1888 - REPRODUCCION FOTO M. TEIXIDO.

Evalyn Knapp, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, Warner Bros.,

American Silent Film Actress Shirley, Mason, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, photo by Evans L.A., 1920's

Binnie Barnes (1903-1998) English actress. Dated 20th Century

Cathleen Mann (1896-1959), Artist; second wife of Francis A. Kelhead, 11th Marquess of Queensbury; daughter of Harrington Mann. Pictured on the front cover of The Bystander magazine in a colour photograph by Raphael. Date: 1930

MARY PICKFORD.

MARY EATON.

Little Mary Pickford - Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Mary Pickford within decorative frame, circa 1915

American silent film actress, LOUISE BROOKS (1906-1985).

Madeleine Carroll (1906 - 1987), English film actress

VILMA BANKY in THE EAGLE (1925), directed by CLARENCE BROWN.

NORMA TALMADGE. 1930.

BESSIE BARRISCALE. 1918.

CLARA BOW in THE PLASTIC AGE (1925), directed by WESLEY RUGGLES.

Portrait of woman with blonde hair

Marcia Sweet in ""The Band Wagon"", New Amsterdam Theatre

MARY PICKFORD.

GERTRUDE ASTOR in THE SILENT WATCHER (1924), directed by FRANK LLOYD.

MADGE BELLAMY.

Boston, Massachusetts: c. 1924 Dorothy Nourse who won a a scholarship for the Paramount Picture School.

Natalie Hall as she appears in Peggy Fears ""Music In The Air"" at the Alvin Theatre, 8 Nov 1932

JEANETTE MACDONALD.

COLLEEN MOORE.

American Actress Lina Basquette (1907-1994), Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, late 1920's

JEANETTE MACDONALD. 1930.

Actress Barbara Kent, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, Universal Pictures, 1927

Mr F.A.M. Browning. October 08, 1930.

Portrait of Lise Jordan, Willem Witsen (attributed to), 1891 photograph Amsterdam paper. photographic support. cardboard historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) - BB - woman Netherlands

THEDA BARA in SALOME (1918), directed by J. GORDON EDWARDS.

Phyllis Broughton, British actress, 1884. Artist: Samuel A Walker

Ann Harding. Russell Ball (United States, circa 1894-1942). United States, circa 1938. Photographs. Gelatin silver print

Alla Nazimova (1879-1945), Russian American film and theatre actress, screenwriter and film producer. 20th century

Mabel Normand, former actress. December 26, 1954.

Mary Pickford. Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades.

MADELEINE CARROLL in THE AMERICAN PRISONER (1929), directed by THOMAS BENTLEY.

Betty Compson (1897-1974), actriz de cine estadounidense.

Italian actress and singer Mim Aylmer (Eugenia Spadoni) posing and sitting. 1920s.

CLAUDETTE COLBERT. 1926.

Lady Beaumont Marries Wellknown Trainer -- Lady Beaumont, window of Sir George Beaumont, who has just married.Captain O.M.D. Bell, the wellknown race-horse trainer, of Stork House, Lambourn.Capt. Bell, who trained, "Felstead", the 1928 Derby Winner, has a remarkable record of training sprinters, and last season he won 34 races of the total value of £15, 402. He is the youngest son of the late Sir J. P. Bell of Queensland, Australia. July 05, 1935.

Photograph of Pat Paterson (1910-1978) an English film actress.

Theda Bara Actress (1885-1955)

CLARA BOW in IT (1927), directed by CLARENCE G. BADGER.

LADY PAMELA SMITH (1915 - 1982), younger daughter of the 1st earl of Birkenhead. In 1936 she married Hon. William Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, and was later styled Baroness Hartwell. Dressed here as Camargo, the Spirit of the Dance, as the Masked Eighteenth Century Costume Ball at the Austrian Legation in aid of the Austrian Winter Distress League and British Charities. Date: 1934

LOUISE BROOKS in MISS EUROPE (1930) -Original title: PRIX DE BEAUTE-, directed by AUGUSTO GENINA.

Grete Natzler (19 June 1906 ñ 10 June 1999) was an Austrian actress and operatic soprano. Born in Vienna

PILAR LOPEZ. BAILARINA ESPAÑOLA . 1912 - 2008. HERMANA DE ENCARNACION LOPEZ , LA ARGENTINITA.

Recent portrait of Lady Doverdale who has a magnificent collection of jewellery. August 10, 1950.

Janet Gaynor (1906-1984), American actress, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Rochelle Hudson (1916 ñ 1972)American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s

Photograph of Jane Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1929-2011) a Fashion model and wife of John Scott, Earl of Dalkeith. Dated 20th Century

Juliana, Crown Princess of the Netherlands. Portrait of Princess Juliana on the occasion of her marriage on D. Drost & Zn business card.

CLARA BOW in THREE WEEK ENDS (1928), directed by CLARENCE G. BADGER.

12/31/1919. The renowned singer and actress Melle Arcos, who sings in the comic opera.

Miss Cathleen Nesbitt (1888-1982) She starred in a wide variety of plays with styles from comic Shakesphere to Serious Drama, noteably The Merchant of Venice and Loyalties, she made her first stage debut in 1910 Date: 1923

American Film Actress Lila Lee, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, 1920's

Astrid, queen of the Belgians Date: 1905 - 1935

DOROTHY GULLIVER.

New Year's wish with portrait of Alice Dolesia, Anonymous, 1905 - 1920 photograph Portrait with the text 'Happy New Year and God Bless You', signed by Alice Dolesia. Baryta Paper. ink gelatin silver print / letterpress printing / pen adult woman. historical persons

Portrait Lettie van Lier-van Wijk, mannequin of Hirsch, sitting in Japon.

Portrait of Azeada Charkouie from Egypt

Vicki Baum - Novelist. June 4, 1933. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

LILLIAN GISH.

Portrait of Maria Müller

Irene Dunne (1898 ñ 1990)American film actress and singer, 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress

Portrait of Clare Willis

Marie Studholme (1875-1930), English actress, 1907.Artist: Ellis & Walery

Actress Dorothy King was a Broadway actress with a very active roaring twenties social life in New York.

Studio shot of Anita King

Gertrude Robins (1890-1962), American actress, 1908-1909.Artist: S Elwin Neame

Jeanne. Artist: Morton Schamberg (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1881-1918 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Date: 1917. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of actress nel knot in checkered cloak.

Swedish actress Margit Rosengren. 1901-1952. Pictured wearing a fur coat and a fashionable hat. Sweden 1938

United States: c. 1916. Geraldine Farrar, opera singer and actress and diva, listens to a recording on her Victrola.

Cicely Courtneidge (1893 - 1980), Actress of stage and film

Portrait of Irina Odoyevtseva (1901-1990), Anonymous

Russian Communist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) by Anonymous /Private Collection/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Margaret Lockwood. Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990) an English actress

RIVELLES , AMPARO. ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA DE CINE Y TEATRO . 1925-2013. FOTOCROMO CIFESA.

Tallulah Bankhead (1902 - 1968), American actress, talk show host and bonne vivante. 1926

Miss Maggie Teyte -- A noted English soprano who arrived from London by the R.M.S Orsova today, to commence a concert tour of Australia with Mr. Tudor Davies. Miss Teyte is a native of Wolverhampton, England, and studied under Jean de Reszke, the celebrated tenor. She made her operative debut in Paris and sang for several seasons at Govent Gardens. She speaks in high praise of the work done by the British Broadcasting Corporation in fostering musical taste and Keenness in England. This is her first visit to Australia. October 2, 1933.

Carmen Amaya (1918-1963), bailarina de flamenco de origen gitano. Año 1935.

Greta Garbo in 1928.

"Margaret Whigham (1912-1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying an American golfer and then Duchess of Argyll, whose scandalous divorce case, involving the photographs of the "headless" man plunged her into disgrace and penury. c.1935"

Liliane Beaumont D'Erlanger (1902 - 1945). The Baron and Baroness of D'Erlanger's daughter, following her engagement to prince Jean Louis Faucingy Lucinge on the 26th July 1923. Date: 1923

Silent Film Actress and Model Olive Thomas, Publicity Portrait by Fred Hartsook, 1910's

Blanche Sweet (1896-1986), American actress, 1928.Artist: WD & HO Wills

Gelatin silver print - Portrait of an unidentified girl, Montreal, Quebec, 1933-1949

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Merle Oberon. Merle Oberon (1911-1979) a Eurasian actress

JEAN HARLOW.

Mary Brian (1906 - 2002), American actress and movie star who made the transition from silent films to sound films

Irene Purcell in ""Accent on Youth"", June 1935

DOLORES COSTELLO.

Photograph of Dame Ninette de Valois (1898-2001), the Irish ballerina, who was christened Edris Stannus. Date: 1925

Anna Akhmatova and Olga Glebova-Sudeikina by Anonymous /Private Collection/1914/Phototypie/Russia/Portrait

Gertrude Michael (1911-1964) an American film, stage and television actress. Dated 20th Century

Maude Odell, portrait bust

Gretl - Greta.Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.

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