Early Big Screen

Actors, actresses and movies 1900 - 1970

[silentdivasblog]

Classic Saturday 🎞 Bette Davis ❤️

[wehadfacesthen]

Joan Bennett, c.1946

“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.”

[clarabowlover]

Maureen O'Sullivan

Tarzan And His Mate (1934)

[silverscreen-andfashion]

GINGER ROGERS in a studio promo photo, 1935

[gatabella]

Rita Hayworth, early 1940s

[aaronstveit]

I can't help smiling. That's what happens in analysis. As the doctor begins to uncover the truth of a patient, said patient develops a fine hearty hatred of said doctor. Well, you're going to hate me a great deal before we are through.

INGRID BERGMAN as DR. CONSTANCE PETERSEN Spellbound — 1945, dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[elinordash]

DESIRE (1936) Marlene Dietrich & Zeffie Tilbury

[jean-arthur]

Jean Arthur, 1935.

[vintage-every-day]

Greta Garbo, 1929. Photo by Nickolaus Muray.

[jean-arthur]

Jean Arthur photographed for A Lady Takes a Chance, 1943.

[camillejaval]

Greta Garbo in Camille (1936)

[rhera]

Martha Vickers as Virginia Brown

THE MAN I LOVE (1946) dir. Raoul Walsh

[normajeanebaker]

Marilyn Monroe and Louis Calhern in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) dir. John Huston

[filmgifs]

NOTORIOUS 1946 ⏤ dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[silverscreendames]

Vivien Leigh in WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

[didanagy]

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948)

dir. george sidney

[jean-arthur]

Jean Arthur in A Lady Takes a Chance, 1943.