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Vintage Ladies

by Strings of Pearl's

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American actress Billie Burke, (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970)
Actress and singer Minnie Brown, photo taken at White Studios, NY, 1907. She was a member of the Williams & Walker Vaudevillian Troupe. In 1920 she served as vice president for the National Association of Negro Musicians.
Canadian born Maud Allan was a pianist-turned-actor, dancer and choreographer, (1873-1956).
Mignon Nevada, as Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas's opera, 'Hamlet', circa 1910. Born in Paris, she was an English operatic soprano.
Gaby Deslys, c1910 - dancer, singer, and actress of the early 20th century from Marseilles, France, (1881-1920)
Gibson Girl Gabrielle Ray posing with a bullwhip, c.1910
Italian actress Lyda Borelli, 1911
Anna Held, Polish-born stage performer,(1872-1918).
Lily Elsie, English actress and singer, c. 1906
Florence Evelyn Nesbit, known professionally as Evelyn Nesbit, was a popular American chorus girl and artists’ model. (immortalised as The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.)
Eleanor Towzey Nellie Stewart was an Australian actress and singer, known as Our Nell and Sweet Nell. (1858-1931)
Doris Eaton Travis - dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, writer, and rancher, (1904-2010).
Baroness von W. of Vienna, photo by Frank Eugene, 1900s
Helen Duncombe [Viscountess D’Abernon], c. 1914, photo by Madame Yevonde.
Lady in a Greenhouse by Alfonse vanBesten c.1915
Lilian Bond (1908 – 1991). Ms Bond won a beauty contest in London in 1926. Shortly afterward, she came to New York, where she was hired for The Ziegfeld Follies
Nelly Power (1854-1887), English singer, actress and performer in music hall, burlesque and pantomime. She was the original singer of 'The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery'.
Paulette Goddard when she was a Ziegfeld Girl, photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston.
Jetta Goudal in The Forbidden Woman c.1927
Hungarian actress Ella Gombaszögi, c. 1920
Follies beauty - Edith Babson
Actress Maureen O’Sullivan on Malibu Beach c.1934
Actress Mabel Ford - Photo by Apeda Studios. c.1921
Model Margaret Severn by Maurice Goldberg c.1919
American actress Edwina Booth, (1904-1991).
Maud Fealy
Vintage Burlesque beauty, Lina Frost by De Mirjian Studios NYC c.1927
English actress Gladys Cooper - hand-tinted, possibly by Bossano, 1910
Marjorie Zears 1920s. Photo George Cannon
Ginger Rogers
Australian born actress Mae Busch
American silent film and stage actress Theda Bara, 1921
Alla Nazimova, in 'Camille', 1921,
'The It Girl' - Clara Bow, c. 1930
Ziegfeld Girl - Grace Moore, (1898 - 1935), photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Joan Crawford, 1920s
American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter Mae Murray, 1920s - photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Actress Julanne Johnston, 1921, photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Lillie Langtry
Actresses Joan Crawford and Constance Bennett, 1932
Ziegfeld Girl ~ Eva Brady ~ (1904 – 1934). Photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Vera Kholodnaya (1893-1919) was Russia's first female movie star.
Nina Mae Mckinney
Mexican born actress Dolores Del Rio (1905-1983), was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time and a kind of female version of Rudolph Valentino in silent films.
Actress Marion Davies
Lya de Putti (1899-1931) - 1920's - Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters - Photo by Studio Alex Binder
Actress Myrna Loy
Anita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.
Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova
Lillian Gish, photgraphed in 1932 for 'Vanity Fair' by Edward Steichen
Florence Cresby - photo taken at the Scloss Studio of New York
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, 1914
Actress Dorothy Gish, 1919
Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944) Italian opera soprano singer and actress
Princess Ileana of Romania
Turn of the century ballerina with tight-laced waist
The Orchard, photo by Clarence H. White
Scottish-American operatic soprano Mary Garden in Pelléas et Mélisande, 1908
Rosa Rosarum, 1901- photo by Mathilde Weil
Photography by Reutlinger Studio c. 1910s
Maud Adams
Lovely stage and film actress Maude Fealy as Alice Faulkner in 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Katharine Hepburn as Shakespeare’s Juliet, 1933
French actress Émilie Marie Bouchaud aka Polaire, 1912
English actress Gladys Cooper
American opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967).
Actress Marie Doro
Cléo de Merode, c.1903
Miss Phyllis Monkman in the Butterflies, c. 1910s
Lillian Gish, 1915
Edwardian stage actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Dolores Costello (1903-1979), was nicknamed 'The Goddess of the Silent Screen.'
Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.
Myrna Darby - 1920s - photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Ukranian born film and theatre actress, screenwriter, and film producer. Alla Nazimova.
Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881-1931).
Beautiful actress Gene Tierney, (1920-1991)
Carole Lombard
Nancy Beaton (sister of Cecil) as a shooting star.
Mary Custis Lee, daughter of famed Confederate General Robert E. Lee. 1914
Marlene Dietrich by James N. Doolittle c.1931
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 1894-1924, was the first grand duchess regnant of Luxembourg, and its first female monarch since Maria Theresa (1740–1780).
Lillian and Dorothy Gish by Alfred Cheney Johnston c_1920
Gloria Swanson in 'Zaza' 1923
German film actress of the silent era Erna Morena appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951.
Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie), American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, 1917-2002.
Actress and Ziegfeld Girl, Dorothy Flood
Cléo de Mérode
Claudette Colbert in 'Cleopatra'.
Bebe Daniels, American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer, (1901-1971).
Baroness Yele de Guestre in the garden, 1913
Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935
American competitive swimmer and actress, Esther Williams (1921-2013).
American actress Betty Blythe best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as 'The Queen of Sheba' (1921).
American actress and former Ziegfeld Girl, Mary Nolan (1905-1948).
Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925)
Actress Maud Adams, c. 1890
Actress Gene Tierney (1920-1991).
Actress and singer Estelle Wentworth , 1913
Silent film actress, Phyllis Haver, 1928
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