Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). It was Helm’s first role; she was only 18 when filming commenced.

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara c.1918

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Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies.  She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen".

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Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill in His Captive Woman (1929, dir. George Fitzmaurice) 

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Ann Harding

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.

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Jessie Matthews and her awesome headdress - c. 1930s 

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Fredi Washington

Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an accomplished African American dramatic film actress, who was active during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s). She is best known for her role as Peola in the 1934 version of the film Imitation of Life.

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Gaby Deslys

Gaby Deslys wearing Paquin, 1913 or ‘14 

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Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern (born Harriet Arlene Lake, January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades. Her film career started as an extra-bit part in the film Broadway Nights in 1927. Ann got her break with Columbia Pictures when they signed her to a contract in 1934. Her first role for Columbia was in the film The Party's Over (1934).

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Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress. After her role in Metropolis she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was Ein idealer Gatte (An Ideal Spouse) in 1935.

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Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American illustrated song model, comedian, singer, theater and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation.

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Ann Miller

Johnnie Lucille Collier, known professionally as Ann Miller, (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American dancer, singer and actress. She is remembered for her work in Hollywood musical films of the 1940s and '50s. Ann Miller started her Hollywood career in low-budget films between 1937 and 1946, before she became a star in major films.  After her film career she danced in nightclubs and in 1979 she was in the Broadway hit "Sugar Babies."

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Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young, (September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960),  was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era. A tall, dark-haired, full-figured gal that was a popular type of the early 20th century, Clara played both conventional leading ladies and light comedy, the latter of which she excelled at. She quickly became a top star at Vitagraph, ranking seventeenth in a 1913 popularity poll of stars that was topped by Kalem's Alice Joyce.

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Dolores del Rio

Dolores del Rio, (August 3, 1905 - April 11, 1983), was considered one of the most beautiful actresses of her time and the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and had a meteoric career in 1920s Hollywood (an extraordinary accomplishment for an Hispanic female on those years). She was a star in Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood.  Dolores del Rio became a prominent actress in Mexican films. Her career flourished until the end of the silent era, with success in films such as Resurrection (1927), Ramona (1928) and Evangeline (1929).

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Shelley Winters

1940s cheesecake photo of Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters, (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters borrowed her stage name from her favorite poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her mother's maiden name, Winter.

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Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy (June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. 

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Sada Koyama

Sadayakko as Ophelia, born in 1871, Sadayakko (貞奴) was her stage name as an actress and dancer, derived from a combination of her real name, Sada Koyama, and her geisha name, Yakko. c. 1905

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Bessie Love

Bessie Love, (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986)  was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies.was celebrated for portrayals of child roles while still a child. Her first featured part was that of a Swedish servant girl in "The Flying Torpedo," with John Emerson. Previous to that she was an unknown "extra," working after school. Before long she was playing opposite William S. Hart. The next step upward came when she starred in her own picture as "Nina, the Flower Girl."

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Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels, (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer.  Since her father was a theatrical manager and her mother a star in the theatre, Bebe was on the stage from the time she was born. Although she had made her film debut at age seven in Selig's "The Common Enemy," she continued in school until answering an ad for a leading lady for Harold Lloyd in 1915.

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Billie Dove

Billie Dove, born Bertha Bohny, (May 14, 1903 - December 31, 1997) to Swiss parents Charles and Bertha Bohny who emigrated to New York City before she was born.   She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She migrated to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and was dubbed The American Beauty (1927), the title of one of her films.

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