Silent Beauties

Andy Goes on the Stage (USA, 1914) IMDB link: imdb.com/title/tt041239… #silentfilm #silentera #1910s #1914 #cinema

Buster Keaton & Kathryn McGuire The Navigator [1924] #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm

Of 44 films Bara made, only 4 are extant. 🎞️1914 The Stain credited as Theodosia Goodman EXTANT 🎞️1915 A Fool There Was EXTANT 🎞️1916 East Lynne EXTANT 🎞️1925 The Unchastened Woman EXTANT 🎞️1917 Cleopatra Approx. 20 seconds remain 🎞️1918 Salome 2 minutes found in 2021

Vilma Bánky and Ronald Colman in Two Lovers (1928)

Louise in her costumes for Beggars of Life (1928). Photo by Eugene Robert Richee.

Japanese magazine advertisement for A Lady of Chance (1928)

REDISCOVERED-- THEDA BARA IN SALOME (1918) Five years ago in 2021, frames of Salome were found by Miguel Amor of Filmoteca Espanola (Spanish Film Library). Miguel was head of the nitrate film warehouse @Filmoteca_es totalling approximately two minutes including intertitles. Filmoteca Española holds one of Europe’s largest nitrate collections, with over 70,500 nitrate film reels preserved in its vaults. Watch her facial expressions. Norma Desmond was right, they had faces. Sound on.

Max Linder in Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)

Jacqueline Logan on the set of The Leopard Lady, 1928

Colleen Moore photographed by E. O. Hoppe, 1926

Buster Keaton, Mary O'Brien, and Francis McDonald Battling Butler [1926] #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm

Around the maypole on a bright spring day in 1929. Ribbons weave and children dance in traditional spring celebrations.

The Bat, 1926.

Julanne Johnston, born today, May 1, in 1900. Over 40 roles but probably best known as The Princess in Thief of Bagdad opposite Douglas Fairbanks Did You Know? Douglas Fairbanks saw Johnston dance in a theater before the premiere of his film Robin Hood, which resulted in his signing her to be the leading lady in The Thief of Bagdad #botd classicmoviehub.com/bio/julanne-jo…

Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Ward Crane, and Erwin Connelly Sherlock Jr. [1924] #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm

Tallulah Bankhead in the play 'The Garden of Eden' (1927)

Barbara Stanwyck press photo for the Broadway play The Noose 1927

Waving farewell as the tram departs in this lovely film from the turn of the century. It’s incredible to think the footage was taken around 125 years ago. Nottingham c.1900.

Mary and Doug placing their prints at the first Mann's Chinese Theatre ceremony 99 years ago. #marypickford #douglasfairbanks #mannschinesetheater #hollywoodlegends

Buster Keaton falling head over heels for the stunning 17-year-old Alice Mann in "Coney Island" (1917)

Louise models a silk kimono in an undated photo, probably 1928.