Alla Nazimova, 1918. The photographer isn’t noted but was most likely Hendrick Sartov of The Hoover Art Studio in L.A. The portrait was commissioned by Alla’s own production company for Metro with whom she made eleven films between 1918 and 1921. #botd

Louise by George Hommel, 1927.

Friday mood

Merle Oberon by Robert Coburn, 1938.

“The one piece play suit is a favorite with Lola Lane seen here wearing a simply tailored model of grey tropical cloth showing a neat, narrow collar, flat breast pocket and two pleats stitched to the hips. Her shoes of bright red linen show thick cork soles.” WB photo, 1938 #botd

Marian Marsh by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer for Crime and Punishment (1935).

Louise by Eugene Robert Richee from the “kimono” photo session, 1927.

Australian-born actress, model and playwright Margaret Vyner for British Vogue, 1943. Portrait by Norman Parkinson.

Paulette Goddard from a portrait by George Hurrell, 1939.

Louise poses with other members of the Denishawn Dance Company — including Martha Graham, seated — 1923 or early 1924. “Everything that she did was beautiful,” Martha later wrote of Louise. “I was utterly absorbed by her beauty and what she did.”

Theda Bara from a poster for When a Woman Sins (1918).

Dorothy Lamour by William Walling, Jr., 1937.

Judith Barrett by Ray Jones for Universal, 1937.

Elezabeth Taylor by Virgil Apger, 1951. (Thread)

Louise as Miss Bayport checks out the competition in a still from the lost film The American Venus (1926). “It was only a small role. Nobody intended Louise to be particularly important and Louise didn’t bother to mention to anybody that she was...” — Ruth Waterbury, Photoplay

Louise with James Hall in a still from Rolled Stockings (1927).

Maureen O’Sullivan by Alex Kahle, 1931. #botd

Sunday Night Mood: Boris Karloff leads the congregation in The Black Cat (1934). Note: no teleprompter.

Tallulah Bankhead by Paul Tanqueray for her performance in the West End comedy Her Cardboard Lover, London 1928.

Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Morocco (1930). (Thread)

Louise poses with a “Meeker Made” leather handbag for a 1927 print advertisement campaign. Paramount’s Eugene Richee took the photo.

Margaret Sullavan by Eugene Robert Richee for The Moon’s Our Home (1936). #botd

Helen Gilbert by László Willinger, 1939.

Louise in Berlin, 1928.

Gloria Grahame for The Cobweb (1955).

Constance Cummings for Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933). #botd

Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee, 1935.

Louise, 1928.

My actual parents

Phyllis Brooks by Gene Kornman, 1938.

Now We’re in the Air (1927) is a lost film but a few undamaged segments of the silent were discovered in Prague in 2016 and restored. One clip shows Louise as Grisette being introduced by her carnival emcee father, Monsieur Chelaine (Emile Chautard).

Joan Caulfield by Nina Leen for LIFE, 1943.

Ruth Chatterton by Otto Dyar, 1930.

Pre-production art for The Jazz Age (1929). “A Scathing Indictment of the Bewildered Children of Pleasure…Riding the Gilded Juggernaut of Jazz and Gin!” Also, Thursday.

Colleen Moore and Diane Ellis in a still from Happiness Ahead (1928).

Ida Lupino by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer, 1939.

Louise by Otto Dyar, 1927.

Muriel Finley, Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, stage actress and minor film starlet, by Eugene Robert Richee, 1930. I thought the backdrop looked familiar… (Thread)

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach for RKO’s Break of Hearts (1935). Bernard Newman designed her gown. #botd

Millie Perkins, 1959. #botd

June Travis (in her screen debut) and Kay Francis in a still from Stranded (1935).

Louise by M.I. Boris, NYC 1925.

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach for Stage Door (1937). #botd

Jean Harlow by Lansing Brown, 1929.

Ava Gardner by Ray Jones, 1947. (Thread)

Louise with Richard Arlen and James Hall in a still from Rolled Stockings (1927).

Anna May Wong in a classic portrait by Ruth Harriet Louise, 1927.

Doris Hill by Eugene Robert Richee, 1929.

Dorothy Flood, dancer, model, actress and Ziegfeld Follies performer. Color carbro (carbon-bromide) print by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1938.

Happy Mother’s Day!