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Vintage Portraits of Women

Expressive black and white portraits of women from the 1920s, featuring elaborate attire and artistic poses, conveying elegance and nostalgia.

Lucile Nikolas in ""Time', 39th Theatre, 1923
Lucile Nikolas in ""Time', 39th Theatre, 1923
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GRETA GARBO (1905-1990).Xia Meng, a.k.a Hsia Moon or Miranda Yang; born Yang Meng, on 16 February 1932 in Shanghai, China) is a Hong Kong actress and film producer. She was the key figure of Hong Kong's Left Wing Mandarin movie scene.Diana Churchill, (1913-1994), English film and stage actress, 20th century. Artist: UnknownMaureen OSullivan, (1911-1998), Irish actress, 20th century. Artist: Unknown(Dame) Flora Robson (1902 - 1984) English actress of stage and screen. 1937Loretta Young (1913-2000) an American actress. Dated 20th Century01/31/1930. In the image, the actress Pepita Díaz Artigas in "El Monk Blanco".Colleen Moore. June 28, 1953.A blonde woman looking upwards, three-quarter profile , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesMme Paulette FilienPlayer's Cigarettes card depicting Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) a British stage and film actressPrincess Ingrid Of Sweden.Princess Ingrid celebrated her 21st birthday on March 28th 1931.Photo an Official birthday portrait just released for Publication. July 17, 1931. (Photo by Central News).Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska; Pankiewicz, Józef (1866-1940); 1885-1886 (1885-00-00-1887-00-00);Modrzejewska, Helena (1840-1909), Modrzejewska, Helena (1840-1909)-iconography, Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912), Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912)-collection, actors, gift (provenance), portraits, portraits female, theater, collection signsGermaine Yvonne Arnaud (1890 ñ1958) was a French pianist, singer and actress.Actress Betty Bronson (1906-1971), Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Sonny Boy", Warner Bros., 1929Portrait of Kitty Flynn, with of Charles W. Bullard, an American criminal who was also as 'Piano Charley'. Dated 19th CenturyLOUISE BROOKS. 1927.LILA LEE.Helen KELLER 1880-1968, American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy, photographed using her hands to 'see ' a statue, c. 1912Lew Cody and Fannie Ward in 'our Better Selves' 1919.Argentina: Eva Peron (1919-1952), First Lady of Argentina 1948-1952, as a young womanWoman; inscribed 'Miss Williams' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsTHEDA BARA in SALOME (1918), directed by J. GORDON EDWARDS.Portrait of Annie Croft (1896-1995), English actress, photograph by Mabel Robey from The Tatler, No 1358, July 6, 1927, London.A blonde woman looking to the downwards, three-quarter profile , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesLondon, England c. 1920.Silent film actress Manora (aka Manvia)Thew gazes at the mystic in a crystal ball that she is holding in her hands. Photograph by Emil Otto Hoppe.Vera Kholodnaya, Russian silent film actor by Anonymous /Private Collection/1916/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,PortraitBerenice Abbott, Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.Claudette Colbert , Actresses, Colbert, Claudette, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesLa cantante y bailarina La Bella Dorita.Pat Smythe: Britain's leading horsewoman. June 01, 1953. (Photo by Dorothy Wilding, Camera Press).GRETA GARBO in THE JOYLESS STREET (1925) -Original title: DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE-, directed by GEORG WILHELM PABST.Claudette Colbert , Actresses, Hairdressing, Colbert, Claudette, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United StatesActress Norma Talmadge, Motion Picture Magazine Cover by Ann Brockman, February 1923Woman; inscribed 'Miss Sheppard' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraitsMarguerita Maria 'Mady' Christians (January 19, 1892 - October 28, 1951) was an Austrian-born German actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period. Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 - 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor and entertainer. Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 - November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviatrix and novelist.Los Angeles, California: c. 1922. Silent film star Viola Dana sitting on a beach with a baseball bat and a ball.Actress Doris Kenyon, Picture-Play Magazine Cover, May 1925Lady Diana Manners (1891-1981), British society beauty, actress and wife of Duff Cooper. Later became Lady Duff Cooper, Viscountess Norwich. A portrait study by John Singer Sargent. The Tatler reports on her having a stall at the Souvenir Luncheon at Grosvenor House where 'Lady Diana will sell the Three Arts toys (in aid of the Three Arts Women's Employment Fund), and will probably enjoy her usual success.' 1916Lady Cynthia Colville -- New Portrait Study of, Lady Cynthia Colville, the wife of the Hon. George Charles Colville, M.B.E., and daughter of the 1st Marquess of Crewe.Lady Colville was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary in 1923; and was awarded the D.C.V.O. in 1937. Her husband is an uncle of Viscount Colville of Culross. March 21, 1944.Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Portrait of the violinist Eugenie Uminska. 1934. Poland, WarsawMiss Gwen Farrar, entertainer and musician, about to appear with Norah Blaney at the Cosmopolitan, New York, in a Ziegfeld production entitled 'Going South'. Date: 1925Luisa Casati, De Meyer, Baron Adolphe Edward Sigismund (1868-1949)Player's Cigarettes card depicting Norma Shearer. Edith Norma Shearer (1902-1983) a Canadian-American actress.Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Austrian-born American actress, 1940. Artist: UnknownPortraits of Lady Mercy Greville (1904-1968), photograph by Madame Yevonde (1893-1975), and Basil Herbert Dean (1888-1978), English actor, writer, film and theatrical producer and director, from The Tatler, No 1351, May 18, 1927, London.CLARA BOW in MANTRAP (1926), directed by VICTOR FLEMING.Luise Rainer, (1910-), two time Academy Award winning film actress, 20th century. Artist: UnknownMargaret Whigham (1912-1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll, whose scandalous divorce case, involving the photographs of the "headless" man plunged her into disgrace and penury. 1935Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 - December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman who was often referred to by the nicknames "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy".Portada de la revista hispanohúngara Hungría de mis amores, número uno, editada en Barcelona, enero de 1944. Katalin Karády.Stage producer Vsevolod Meyerhold and his wife, actress Zinaida Raikh, Anonymous Jenny Schaffer as HanneleFrench actress, dancer, and silent film star Stacia Napierkowska (1891-1945) photographed circa 1910SHIRLEY TEMPLE in STOWAWAY (1936), directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER.Portada de la revista cinematográfica Films Selectos dedicada a Norma Shearer y Leslie Howard, editada en Barcelona, año 1935. Edith Norma Shearer. Lelie Howard.Colette. January 01, 1930.Sarah Bernhardt (Henriette-Rosine Bernard) (Paris, 1844-Paris, 1923). French stage actress of Jewish origin. Actress of the Comedie Française and the Odeon. Portrait. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.BETTE DAVIS.Grace Moore (1898 ñ 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the 'Tennessee Nightingale.' Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience.Heather Angel (1909-1986) a British-American actress. Dated 20th CenturySally O'Neil in MGM's ""The Callahans and the Murphys""Film still from 'The Affairs of Susan' starring Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Francis Pierlot, and Walter Able.Barbara Weeks (born Susan Kingsley; July 4, 1913 - June 24, 2003) was an American film actress who performed primarily in Hollywood productions of the 1930s.Portada de la revista Cine Mundial, con Greta Garbo (1905-1990), actriz sueca en portada. Editada en Bilbao, febrero de 1930.IMPERIO ARGENTINA. MAGDALENA NILE DEL RIO. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. BUENOS AIRE 1908 -2002`. PORTADA DE CANCIONERO.Viola Dana (1897-1987), actriz de cine mudo estadounidense.PIQUER, CONCHA. ACTRIZ Y CANTANTE ESPAÑOLA. VALENCIA 1908-1991. CANCIONERO.Advertisement for Mary Pickford's The Love Light - Motion Picture, 1920Zhou was born Su Pu (璞), but was separated from her natural parents at a young age and raised by adoptive parents. She spent her entire life searching for her biological parents but her parentage was never established until after her death. According to later family research, a relative who was an opium addict took her at the age of 3 to another city and sold her to a family named Wang, who named her Wang Xiaohong. She was later adopted by a family named Zhou, changing her name to Zhou Xiaohong. At the age of 13 she took Zhou Xuan as her stage name, 'Xuan' (璇) meaning 'beautiful jade' in Chinese. Zhou started acting in 1935, but she achieved stardom in 1937 in Street Angel, when director Yuan Muzhi cast her as one of the leads as a singing girl. 'Golden Voice' (金嗓子) was Zhou's nickname to commend her singing talents after a singing competition in Shanghai, where she came in second. Zhou rapidly became the most famous and marketable popular singer in the gramophone era up to her death,N饠Edith Elaine Tichman, she married Richard Hart-Davis, whom she divorced in the late 1930s before becoming the third wife of Lord Broughton and Vaux in 1942. Date: 1935IMPERIO ARGENTINA. MAGDALENA NILE DEL RIO. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. BUENOS AIRE 1908 -2002. PORTADA DE LA REVISTA " CANTA CLARO ".IMPERIO ARGENTINA. MAGDALENA NILE DEL RIO. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. BUENOS AIRE 1908 -2002. PORTADA DE LA REVISTA " FILMS SELECTOS ".España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Portada de la revista gráfica Picture Post, editada en el Reino Unido en diciembre de 1938, cosiderada la pionera del fotoperiodismo. Fotografía de una joven sonriendo.EDITH PIAF French singer French songbook for 'Beau Soir de Vienne' sung by Elyane Celis, (1914 - 1962). BETTE DAVIS in DANGEROUS (1935), directed by ALFRED E. GREEN.MELLER , RAQUEL. FRANCISCA MARQUEZ LOPEZ. TONADILLERA ESPAÑOLA. TARAZONA 1888 - 1962. PORTADA EN LA REVISTA " CINE EN SIETE DIAS " CON OCASION DE SU MUERTE.IMPERIO ARGENTINA. MAGDALENA NILE DEL RIO. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA. BUENOS AIRE 1908 -2002. PORTADA DE LA REVISTA " FILMS SELECTOS ".Victor Andrew McLaglen (1886 - 1959) film actor who held both British and American citizenship. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne.Songbook cover for 'Qu'il etait Doux' a 1950's French song, by Elaine Embrun French songbook for 'Le Chaland Qui Passe' 1933 sung by Lys Gauty (1900 - 1994), French cabaret singer and actress. Her most significant work came in the 1930s and 1940s as Gauty appeared in film, and recorded her best-known song, "Le Chaland Qui Passe", which is an interpretation of an Italian compositionBARBARA STANWYCK in THE MAD MISS MANTON (1938), directed by LEIGH JASON.Cover of motion picture magazine Cine-Mundial, January, 1916 featuring inset image of actress Anita Stewart. Periodicals, Magazine covers. 1916-01. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Stewart, Anita, 1895-1961Norma Talmadge, Publicity Portrait, Cover of Photoplay Magazine, December 1929CLAUDETTE COLBERT in CLEOPATRA (1934), directed by CECIL B DEMILLE.GRACIE FIELDS English singer and actress Date: 1929Magazine cover for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey, London. Queen Elizabeth II, with the Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace shortly after their return from Westminster AbbeyPlaying card - Playing card with a picture of Harry HoudiniGAMEZ , CELIA. CANTANTE Y ACTRIZ ARGENTINA. AFINCADA EN ESPAÑA DESDE 1925. BUENOS AIRES 1905 - 1992. " CON PLUMAS " PORTADA DISCO.IRELAND - 1980: shows George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, by Alick Ritchie IRELAND - CIRCA 1980: A stamp printed in Ireland shows George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, by Alick Ritchie, circa 1980 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 4438120Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in 'La Princesse Lointaine' by Edmond Rostand (in 1895), used to publicise her latest role in L'Aiglon (1900), also by Rostand. Date: 1900Portret van Cécile Eyreams, Léopold Reutlinger, c. 1897 - in or before 1902 photomechanical print Paris paper collotype portrait of opera-singerFront cover of The Sphere from 14 May 1960, with a cover commemorating the marriage of Princess Margaret to Anthony Armstrong Jones at Westminster Abbey on 6 May. 1960GRETA GARBO in NINOTCHKA (1939), directed by ERNST LUBITSCH.1948 French songbook cover for songs sung by Jacqueline Ricard (1920-2009) and Francine Claudel (1921-1987)INGRID BERGMAN in STRANGERS (1954) -Original title: VIAGGIO IN ITALIA-, directed by ROBERTO ROSSELLINI.LA CENICIENTA Y ERNESTO.GRACIA DE TRIANA. GRACIA JIMENEZ ZAYAS. CANTANTE ESPAÑOLA SEVILLA 1919 - 1989. CARTEL DE LA PELICULA CASTAÑUELA , AÑO 1945.REINA , JUANITA. JUANA REINA CASTRILLO. ACTRIZ Y CANTANTE ESPAÑOLA. SEVILLA 1925 -. " SEVILLA.. TRONO Y TRONIO ". CARTEL DE SU ESPECTACULO EN ELTEATRO CALDERON. MADRID.