Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. photo by thefoxling on Flickr

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Vintage Film

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is an American film of Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year.

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Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford as a Ziegfeld folly, photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston

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Theresa Harris

Theresa Harris  (December 31, 1906 – October 8, 1985) was an American television and film actress.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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Raquel Meller

Raquel Meller, born Francisca Marqués López, was an Aragonese cuplé and tonadilla singer, and diseuse. She was an international star in the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in several films and touring Europe and the Americas.  Artists such as Charlie Chaplin and Sarah Bernhart considered Raquel Meller to have been genius. She performed extensively in the United States under contract for the Schuberts, and performances broke box office records at the time.

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Odetta Holmes

Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".

Nina Mae McKinney

Nina Mae McKinney (June 13, 1912 – May 3, 1967)  was an American actress who worked internationally in theatre, film and television after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. 

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford, 1930

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Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco (1936)

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Katherine Yarbrough

Katherine Yarbrough, 1920s, Vaudevillian actress.

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Bette Davis

Satan Met a Lady 1936,  Bette Davis.

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Eartha Kitt

 Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby".

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Wife Versus Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary (1936) MGM Studios
Directed By: Clarence Brown
Starring: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy & Jean Harlow

Wife vs. Secretary (1936) Jean Harlow & Myrna Loy at odds for Clark Gable!

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara c.1918

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Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

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LaWanda Page

LaWanda Page, born Alberta Peal (October 19, 1920 – September 14, 2002) was an actress best known for her portrayal of Aunt Esther in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.

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Clara Bow

Clara Bow - 30s Halloween

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