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Showing posts with label star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star. Show all posts

Monday, November 12, 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012

Fernando Pasta

Fernando Pasta - La danseuse Jia Ruskaia, étoile de la Scala de Milan, 1931-35. 
Source: realityayslum

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Pina Menichelli

In the world of the silent screen Italian actress Pina Menichelli was a superstar, a diva, a femme fatale. Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress and silent film star. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in Il Fuoco (1915).
Source: wikipedia | classicfilmheroines

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Lya Mara

Lya Mara (August 1, 1897 – 1960?) was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema. Lya Mara was born as Aleksandra Gudowicz in a Polish family in Riga, Livonia. vintage
Source: ibaicu | google

Monday, August 6, 2012

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt riding her bicycle down the street. New York, 1952.
By Gordon Parks c.1950

Eartha Mae Kitt  (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star.
Source: bygoneamericana | cmgworldwide | images.google.com

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Causino: October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American dancer and film actress who garnered fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars. c.1939 
 Source: wikipedia

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Marie Glory

Marie Glory (March 3, 1905 – January 24, 2009), was a French actress. She was born Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne,  Normandy. She made her film debut in 1924 with a small role in Raymond Bernard's historical epic Le Miracle des Loups under the stage name Arlette Genny, which she used until 1927. For a long time, French actress Marie Glory was the longest living star of the silent era, but in 2009 she died in the age of 103.
 Source: wikipedia | flickr

Friday, July 20, 2012

Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain.


Source: wikipedia

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Constance Talmadge

 Constance Talmadge (April 19, 1898 - November 23, 1973) was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn,
New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge.
The Goldfish - 1924

                Source: Silent Pickford

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Constance Worth

Constance Worth (19 August 1912 – 18 October 1963) was an Australian actress who became a Hollywood star in the late 1930s