The Golden Age of the Silver Screen

Posting* old hollywood (silent era-1940s), classic hollywood (1940s-1960s) and vintage hollywood (1970s-1990s). *For entertainment and educational purposes only

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I hate that this still needs to be said in this big old year of 2023*, but I would rather have pornbots following me than Trump supporters.

*and now 2024

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Jack Benny, as George Washington, and Ann Sheridan as his wife, Martha, behind the scenes of George Washington Slept Here (1942).

[Original caption reads: "6/19/42-Los Angeles, California: Screen players Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan, costumed as George and Martha Washington, chatting on the Warner Brothers set during the production of "George Washington Slept Here.""]

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Thelma Todd

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Claire Windsor, one of the most beautiful women on the screen, is an ideal subject for this interesting study - as Betsy Ross, fashioning the first Stars and Stripes

photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1925

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Madge Evans (1914-1971) posing as a revolutionary heroine, 1935. She is holding one of the earliest American flags with the stars in a circular pattern. Evans started acting in silent films as a child. Under contract to MGM, she was featured in Dinner at Eight (1933), Hell Below (1933), and David Copperfield (1935). In 1939, she married playwright Sidney Kingsley, retired from films, and moved to an estate in New Jersey.

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Paramount publicity photo showing Zoe Dell Lantis in 1938 with Jack Benny & Betty Grable. Zoe Dell Lantis passed away on April 22, 2020 at the age of 104.

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Colonial Cutie Peggy Knudsen

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vera ellen en pointe (via ciaonewportbeach.blogspot.com)

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Coleen Gray celebrates Independence Day, 1945.

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Happy 4th of July from Elizabeth Taylor

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Grace Bradley in a publicity photo for Paramount Pictures.

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Grace Bradley, in a fringed cowgirl costume, poses with rockets and gunpowder for the Fourth of July, c. 1935.

(Bonus Christmas pose in color, used for a German cigarette card:)

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Birthday Remembrances. Today, Feb 26, 1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007) was born.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Hutton)

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Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger photographed my Richard Miller, c. 1958.

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Raquel Welch in “Myra Breckinridge”, 1970

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Raquel Welch photographed by Terry O’Neill for the film "Myra Breckinridge" (1970).