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Vintage Silent Film Actresses

A collection of black and white portraits of early 20th-century actresses showcasing elegance and vintage fashion, featuring soft lighting and classic hairstyles.

Dorothy Humphreys who replaced Ruby Keeler in ""Bye bye Bonnie""

Kathleen Kelly, film and theatre actress. 20th century

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

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

Portrait of Greta Garbo as Anna Christie. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm and was 'spotted' whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. Her first Hollywood film was 'The Temptress' 1926. Amongst her other successes are, 'Queen Christie' (1930), 'Anna Karenina' (1935) and 'Ninotchka' (1939). She retired from films in 1941, after receiving poor reviews for 'Two-Faced Woman.' She spent the rest of her life living as a recluse in New York. Date

Actress Nancy Kelly, Publicity Portrait, 1940's

GLORIA SWANSON.

JEANETTE MACDONALD.

Actress Marjorie Beebe, Publicity Portrait inside The New Movie Magazine, May 1930

MARLENE DIETRICH in MOROCCO (1930), directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG.

BARBARA STANWYCK in HIS AFFAIR (1937) -Original title: THIS IS MY AFFAIR-, directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER.

CLARA BOW. 1930.

NORMA SHEARER.

Joan Blondell, American actress, 1933. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Lady Tennis Player.

Mrs McNaughton, December 1935, Wellington, by Spencer Digby Studios. Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection. Gift of Ronald Woolf, 1975.

CLARA BOW. 1927.

Mrs Ian Bowater *****. October 19, 1936.

Billie Seward, a 1930s motion picture actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dated 20th Century

Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992), German film actress in soft focus

LILY DAMITA.

Lita Chevert in ""Symphony of Six Million"", 24 May 1932

LIL DAGOVER.

Jean Arthur (1900 - 1991), American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. Playing in a film called 'The Greene Murder Case'. Date: 1930

Portrait of smiling young woman (EV004496_H)

Poll photo collection. Portrait photography. Model St Allier. June 1936. France, Paris

Ewa Bonacka, Polish actress and director; portrait .

BEBE DANIELS.

Lorna Hubbard, a British actress. Dated 20th Century

JEAN MUIR.

Woman; inscribed 'Miss Linda Barnett' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

Actress Leila Hyams, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, 1926

Tais Taras Margarito in Faust. September 27, 1954.

MARY PICKFORD.

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Olivia de Havilland. Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (1916-) a Japanese-born British-American-French actress.

Delores Del Rio

Irene Dunne (1898-1990) an American film actress and singer. Dated 20th Century

Mrs. Geoffrey Ashton who was presented *****. August 2, 1937. (Photo by Dorothy Wilding).

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 01/24/1933. The singer Estrellita Castro.

Woman; inscribed 'Miss Kirk' gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, studio portraits

An elegant woman wears her tiara (EV004967_H)

Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish actress, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Dame Clara Butt. July 30, 1934.

ELLA HALL.

CLARA BOW in CALL HER SAVAGE (1932), directed by JOHN FRANCIS DILLON.

Leatrice Joy, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, Photo by Clarence S. Bull for Goldwyn Pictures, 1920's

MARLENE DIETRICH in BLONDE VENUS (1932), directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG.

Marlene Dietrich. Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 - 6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and singer. Her career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Elissa Landi (1904 - 1948), Film actress of Austrian extraction, leading lady of the 1930s

CLARA BOW. 1931.

Sally Eilers (1908-1978), American actress, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Drummond-Hay. December 27, 1937.

Hu Die (1907-1989) had a career as a film actress from the late 1920s to the 1960s. She had her most brilliant period in the 1930s and the 1940s. Early in the 1930s, she played the leading role in China's first sound film, The Singsong Girl, in which she portrays a kindhearted but somewhat ignorant woman who endures her husband's mistreatment and oppression without the slightest resistance. In The River Flows Rampant, the first film made by the left-wing dramatists, she plays the role of Xiujuan, a woman who is filled with the spirit of resistance and has a rich inner world in her heart. Her performance won favorable comments. Hu Die played a full spectrum of characters, including a maidservant, a loving mother, a woman school teacher, an actress, a prostitute, a dancing girl, the daughter of a rich family, a laboring woman, and a factory worker. She had attractive, unconventional qualities, and her performances were gentle, honest, refined and sweet. The audiences call her a film quee

Woman talking into a microphone (EV006911_H)

ROCHELLE HUDSON.

Margaret Lindsay (1910-1981) an American actress. Dated 20th Century

Actress Dorothy Janis, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, late 1920's

Hollywood, California: c. 1925 Eileen Sedgwick looking wide eyed. She was an early film star in the days of silent movies

Miss G Wilson black-and-white negatives, studio portraits, gelatin silver negatives

FAY WRAY.

Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942), American actress, pictured at the time she played the role of Maggie King in the Paramount picture, Swing High, Swing Low. Date: 1937

Dorothea Wieck, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen", Paramount Pictures, 1934

Gilda Gray, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Silent Film, "Aloma of the South Seas", Paramount Pictures, 1926

CONSTANCE TALMADGE. 1925.

Margaret Sullavan, American actress, 1934-1935. Artist: Unknown

VIVIEN LEIGH.

Lady Ednam. February 19, 1932. (Photo by Bertram Park).

Clayton Ester in ""The Wonder Bar"", also starring Al Jolson, Bayes Theatre

RITA HAYWORTH in DANTE'S INFERNO (1935), directed by HARRY LACHMAN.

Georgia Caine, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for the Film, "The Count of Monte Cristo", United Artists, 1934

LIL DAGOVER.

Gloria Josephine May Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress, producer, and businesswoman.

LILY PONS.

Photograph of Elizabeth Allan (1910-1990) an English stage and film actress.

1950 (Ca). Portrait of Ángeles Torner Cervera, «Atc».

Pola Negri was a Polish-born Polish, German and American stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became one of the most popular actresses in American silent film. Her varied career included work as an actress in theater and vaudeville; as a singer and recording artist; as an author; and as a ballerina.

CLARA BOW in ROUGH HOUSE ROSIE (1927), directed by FRANK R. STRAYER.

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Gracie Fields. Dame Gracie Fields (1898- 1979) an English actress, singer and comedienne.

Actress Mary Brian (1906-2002), Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait, 1920's

Portrait of Greta Garbo in 'The Painted Veil.' Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm and was 'spotted' whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. Her first Hollywood film was 'The Temptress' 1926. Amongst her other successes are, 'Queen Christie' (1930), 'Anna Karenina' (1935) and 'Ninotchka' (1939). She retired from films in 1941, after receiving poor reviews for 'Two-Faced Woman.' She spent the rest of her life living as a recluse in New York.

Norma Shearer (1902-1983), Canadian-born American actress, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Carole Lombard, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "The Golden Age of Comedy", (portrait originally from the film, "Run, Girl, Run", 1928), Distributors Corporation of America, 1958

Portrait of actress Nel Knoop in Gerere Mantel, Jacob Merkelbach, 1930 - 1945 photograph Amsterdam photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print portrait of actor, actress

Player's Cigarettes card depicting Rosalind Russell. Catherine Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and singer.

GRETA GARBO in THE SINGLE STANDARD (1929), directed by JOHN S. ROBERTSON.

Portret van Greta Garbo; Greta Garbo ..

GRETA GARBO (real name Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) Swedish actress Date: 1905 - 1990

Elinor Glyn (born Sutherland - 1864-1943). Glamorous British writer of sensational romantic novels. Originator of the term 'It' for sex appeal. The popular verse about her: Would you like to sin/With Elinor Glyn/On a tiger skin/Or would you prefer/To err with her/On some other fur alludes to a scene of passionate love on a tiger skin which features in her best known novel 'Three Weeks' (1907). From a series of cards of 'Famous British Authors' (London, 1937).

Marlene Dietrich.

Joan Gardner (1914-1999) a British actress and wife of Zoltán Korda. Dated 20th Century

MARIA GAMEZ in MISS TREVELEZ (1936) -Original title: LA SEÑORITA DE TREVELEZ-, directed by EDGAR NEVILLE.

American Actress Jane Winton, Head and Shoulders and Full-Length Publicity Portraits, Motion Picture Classic Magazine, May 1927

SYLVIA SIDNEY.

Actress Joan Crawford, The New Movie Magazine Cover by J. Knowles Hare, May 1930

Pola Negri (Appolonia Chalupek) (1897 - 1987), Polish-born actress who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and was successful in silent films

CLARA BOW. 1929.

Portrait of Lady Tennis Player.

GLORIA SWANSON in FINE MANNERS (1926), directed by LEWIS MILESTONE and RICHARD ROSSON.

12/31/1934. The smile of the little actress Temple Shirley captivated many people.

Lili Damita (1904-1994) a French-American actress and singer. Dated 20th Century

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