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Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
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Carmel Myers by Clarence Sinclair Bull, mid-1920’s.
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Louise from a fashion portrait by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.
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L'Oreal hair dye ad, 1927. Artwork by Claude Lepape.
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Louise and Georges Charlia in a publicity still for Prix de Beauté (1930).
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Myrna Loy in a publicity portrait for Renegades (1930)
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Fay Wray by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer, 1936.
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Gene Tierney takes a seat at the bar in The Shanghai Gesture (1941).
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Lita Chevret for Fox Movietone Follies (1929).
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Louise by G.Y. Nishiyama in one of her earliest Paramount publicity photos taken around the time of her screen debut in The Street of Forgotten Men (1925).
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Ann Harding by Ernest A. Bachrach, 1934.
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Model turned actress Ruth Ford in a portrait by George Platt Lynes, 1936. Her friend Orson Welles would be instrumental in helping launch her brief Hollywood film career in 1941. #botd
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Louise in fur and cloche hat. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.
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British actress Francis Cuyler by E.O. Hoppé, 1925.
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Clara Bow for The Fleet’s In (1928). Also, mood.
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Wanda Hawley by Hoover Art Company, 1919.
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Irene Dunne by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931.
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Choose your Saturday mood. Myrna Loy, Conrad Nagel, William Russell, and George E. Stone in State Street Sadie (1928).
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Mary Pickford gets a lift from Charles “Buddy” Rogers in a still from her last silent film My Best Girl (1927).
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Louise in costume for Now We’re in the Air (1927). Photo by Eugene Robert Richee.
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Avonne Taylor poses backstage at the Ziegfeld Follies as Follies mascot “Sally” has a smoke, 1922. Seems the Prince of Wales had declared Avonne “the most beautiful girl he had ever seen on any stage” and requested that she appear in the London production of the musical “Sally.”
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Gilda Gray by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1922.
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Louise takes a break during the filming of Diary of a Lost Girl in July, 1929. The film’s beach resort scenes were shot near the Baltic seacoast town of Swinemünde, 145 miles northeast of Berlin. Photo by Lothar Wolff, friend of Louise and G.W. Pabst’s publicist for the film.
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Bette Davis by Elmer Fryer, 1935.
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Lisa Montell, BOTD in 1933
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Louise as Thymian contemplates the cash from her newfound inheritance in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929).
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A HATFUL OF RAIN (1957) Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa. Dir: Fred Zinnemann 1:45a ET (10:45p PT) A Korean War veteran struggles with addiction and its effects on his family. 1h 49m | Drama