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What is it? - Who has it? - This blog is dedicated to the screen stars of twenties and thirties and their alluring images. All of the images come from my collection of postcards published in Europe. These cards were produced photographically, unlike the movie star cards in the US that were offset printed. These "real photo" postcards retain their great image quality after 70 plus years. Let's hear from you on who you think has the most Allure.
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Hitchcock - A Film Preservation, For The Love Of Film, Blogathon Post.

Hitchcock The World Over.This year, the third National Film Preservation, For the Love of Film blogathon, celebrates director Alfred Hitchcock. Film bloggers, over one hundred, are posting on everyth...

15 may 12

Ketti Gallian

Ketti Gallian was born December 25, 1912 in Nice, France. She went to Paris in 1927 and found work as a chorus girl and mannequin. Returning to Nice, Ketti secured minor roles in two Les Studio Param...

27 dec 11

Screen Book - July 1929

Screen Book Magazine was an interesting publication. As its name might suggest, they took the "book" of one film and made it the dominant subject of the issue. This July, 1929 edition, brough...

27 nov 11

Jobyna Ralston

Jobyna Ralston was born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston in South Pittsburgh, Tennessee on November 21st, 1899. She was named after actress Jobyna Howland, a favorite of her parents. Jobyna left Tennessee a...

22 jun 11

Before Lights, Camera, Action.

Most early film actresses began their professional life before they made an appearance on the silver screen. Some found success in films, others were already past the mid-point in their careers by th...

08 jun 11

Helen Mack

Helen Mack was born November 12, 1913 in Rock Island, Illinois. At age seven she was enrolled at the Professional Childrens School in New York City. She appeared on Broadway, in vaudeville and in fiv...

02 may 11

Leila Hyams

Born in New York on May 1, 1905, to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre, Leila appeared on-stage with her parents while still a child. As a teenager she worked as a model and b...

04 apr 11

Covers, Touched And Untouched.

Here are some more wonderful covers from film magazines of the 20s and 30s. When I get these magazines, they often show their age with stains, tears, creases, fading, etc. I always clean them up befo...

15 mar 11

For the Love of Film (Noir) Film Preservation Blogathon

I find film noir is sometimes difficult to define, with a thin line existing between it and a crime drama, detective story, etc. The setting might be the lower depths of a city, or it may center arou...

14 feb 11

Grace Bradley

Grace Bradley, one of the few actresses who kept her given name, was born on September 21, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York. She attended The Eastman School of Music and wanted to become a professional pia...

01 feb 11

Asides - Covers From The Silent 20s

Some of the best artists and illustrators of the twentieth century produced cover illustrations for the leading film publications. The images in this post cover each year from 1920 to 1929, and are e...

02 jan 11

Toby Wing

Martha Virginia Wing was born in Virginia on July 14, 1915. Toby found herself in Hollywood in the early 1920s when her father became an assistant director at Paramount. As as result of his position,...

14 dec 10

Asides - Film Fun, April 1927

In an earlier post I provided some information on Film Fun ( here ), along with some covers and inside spreads from a few assorted issues. However, this time out we are concentrating on just one issu...

25 nov 10

Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell was born June 30, 1904, in Enid, Oklahoma. With a stage and Broadway background, and after one uncredited film role and and one comedy short, Glenda was signed with Warner Brothers in ...

02 nov 10

Asides - Seen, But Not Heard, Second of Two.

The previous post presented "Seen, But Not Heard" actresses from the first half of the alphabet as they appeared in the 1924 Stars Of The Photoplay publication. This post gives us the balance...

10 oct 10

Asides - Seen, But Not Heard

In 1924, Photoplay magazine came out with their second edition of the "Stars of the Photoplay" hard cover book, filled with 250 images and bios of the leading stars of the day. Actresses acco...

20 sep 10

Sally Phipps

Recently I was contacted by Sally Phipps son, who had seen the April 2007 post about his mother on this blog. He was writing to let me know that the postcard I "posted" was actually not her, ...

06 sep 10

Asides - Cards, Covers, And More, Oh My.

Postcards, covers, and ads featuring actresses make up the content of this post. The actresses have all appeared here before, but the material is making its debut. Enjoy.As always, double click on th...

02 aug 10

Hedda Hopper

Elda Furry (Hedda Hopper) was born May 2, 1885, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She is primarily remembered as one of the two most famous Hollywood gossip columnists ever, the other being rival Louel...

18 jul 10

Asides - One Sheets, Half Sheets, Lobby Cards, Window Cards, Inserts

One (27 x 41 in.), two (41 x 54 in.) and three (41 x 81 in.) sheets, display sheets (22 x28 in.), lobby cards (11 x 14 in.), window cards (14 x 22 in.), and inserts (14 x 36 in.), all designed to get...

04 jul 10

Bette Davis

Bette Davis, 1908 -1989, needs no introduction and if you are looking for detailed biographical information there are sufficient resources on the web, including this one. This post gives us a glimpse...

20 jun 10

Asides - Serial Sisters.

The stepchild of the film business, the movie serial/chapter play/cliffhanger nonetheless thrilled and entertained audiences from the industrys earliest days. There were a staggering 277 silent seria...

30 may 10

Constance Cummings

Constance Cummings (previous posts Mystery Guest #5) was born Constance Halverstadt on May 15, 1910, in Seattle, Washington. As young girl she wanted to be a classical dancer, but in her mid-teens, a...

16 may 10

Mystery Guest #5

Welcome to Mystery Guest #5. As with Mystery Guest #4, this it will be a rolling post, with one new image and clue added over the next week or so to help you guess. Three previous mystery guests were...

01 may 10

Anny Ondra

Born Anna Sophie Ondrakova in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Poland, on May 15, 1903, Anny was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian officer, and spent her childhood in Prague. Early on she knew...

18 apr 10

Asides - Hollywood via Cincinnati and Anna Sten Addendum

In 1933 the Nielin Publishing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, began publishing a serialized story named "Ransom, The Story of a Lost Child, Intimate Chapters of a Film Star's Life". Each 32 page, 6 x 8 inch...

04 apr 10

Anna Sten

Anna Sten was born in Kiev December 3, 1908, as Anjuschka Stenski Sudakewitsch. Her father, a Russian ballet master died when she was 12. At 15, while acting in an amateur play in Kiev, Anna was disc...

21 mar 10

Asides - The Boys Are Back In Town.

Back in April of 2008, I created a post (here) featuring active 1930 actors sporting pencil thin mustaches, quite a popular trend at the time. I decided it was time to give the clean shaven group the...

07 mar 10

Jean Harlow

Born March 3, 1911, and gone June 7, 1937, at age 26, Elton John could have written "your candle burned out long before your legend ever did" for Jean Harlow. She remains a legend to this day and her...

28 feb 10

Film Preservation Blogathon - Now You See It, Now You Don't

I am (and you should be too, hint, hint) a proud National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) contributor who believes the motion picture was one of the most culturally important developments of the ...

14 feb 10

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