Louise in a still from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em (1926).

Isabelle Huppert Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Myrna Loy in a lovely undated portrait, probably mid-1930’s.

Janet Leigh would like a word. Photo by Bud Fraker for Kid Rodelo (1966). #botd

Paulette Goddard, 1935. The new to me original portrait from one of my favorite George Hurrell photo sessions. (Thread)

Slovenian actress Ita Rina for Tonka of the Gallows (1930).

Louise by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.

Loretta Young by Mac Julian for She Had to Say Yes (1933).

Faith Domergue in a still for Howard Hughes’ infamous $4 million, four-years-in-the-making flop Vendetta (1950).

Agnès Souret, actress, dancer and winner of the first Miss France competition of 1920.

Frances Dee by William Walling, Jr., 1937.

Phyllis Fraser by Ernest Bachrach, 1932. Trivia: Her stage name and brief film career at RKO came with help from first cousin Ginger Rogers.

Louise as Marie attempts to rekindle a romance with her reluctant former beau Bill (Robert Armstrong) in A Girl in Every Port (1928).

Jinx Falkenburg by Robert Coburn for Cover Girl (1944).

Joan Crawford by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1926. 🇺🇸💥

Louise leads the dancers in a still from the low-budget Windy Riley Goes to Hollywood (1931). The short film was directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle under the pseudonym William B. Goodrich following his sex scandal blacklisting in Hollywood.

Jessica Chastain © Steven Pan

Gail Russell by Bud Fraker, 1947. 🇺🇸 💥

Ann Sheridan in a portrait by Donald Biddle Keyes, 1939.

Ingrid Bergman for the original Swedish version of Intermezzo (1936).

Anyone else having an issue posting (or viewing) photos on Bluesky today?

Joan Bennett, 1940.

Louise wears her Travis Banton-designed costume for The Canary Murder Case (1929). Photo by George Hommel.

Barbara Stanwyck by John Miehle for RKO, 1938. Fashion Friday.

Elissa Landi by Max Munn Autrey, 1933.

Louise from a photo by the Maurice Seymour studio, Chicago 1934. (Thread)

Esther Ralston makes her own shade, 1926. (Thread)

Leslie Caron by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1957. #botd

Madge Evans poses on a makeshift bearskin throne. Photo by George Hurrell, 1935. #botd

Louise as Thymian lies unconscious after being carried to bed by her father’s lecherous assistant Meinert (Fritz Rasp) in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). Censors had their hands full with the film’s depiction of rape and a young woman finding fulfillment working in a brothel.

Olivia de Havilland by Elmer Fryer, 1938. (Thread) #botd

Italian actress, dancer and singer Anna Fougez by Attilio Babodi, early 1920’s.

Madge Bellamy by Jack Freulich, 1924. #botd

Louise poses on the set of When You’re in Love (1937). Columbia gave her minor uncredited part as a dancer with the understanding that she would be offered a new screen test and future roles. The studio reneged on the deal.

Glenda Farrell by Scotty Welbourne, 1935. #botd

Susan Hayward by Eugene Robert Richee, 1941. #botd

Carole Lombard by William E. Thomas for Pathé, 1929.

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach, 1935.

Louise with Gregory Kelly on the set of The Show-Off (1926).

June Lang models a “flame and smoked grey” chiffon evening dress for a fashion photo by Gene Kornman, 1937.

Fay Wray by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.

Lois Wilson by Freulich, 1931. #botd

Frances Drake by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1935.

Louise in a fashion photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928. I’ve posted a few similar takes from this session but this is a new one.

Alice White, 1928.

“A Daughter of the Gods” pictorial by Edwin Bower Hesser as featured in his publication “Arts Monthly Pictorial from Hollywood,” May 1925. Hmm…🤔

Anna May Wong, 1928. A rare take from a very special series of photos by Ruth Harriet Louise for MGM. (Thread)

Louise from her Ziegfeld Follies days. Photo by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1925.

Eleanor Parker by George Hurrell for Esquire, 1942. #botd

Arleen Whelan by Frank Powolny for Fox, 1938.