#edmonde guy

[naldibutnice]

Edmonde Guy by G. L. Manuel Frères, 1927

[mote-historie]

Umberto Brunelleschi, Edmonde Guy, 1928.

Edmonde Guy (1903-1951) was a French dancer and film actress. From 1921 Edmonde Guy formed a famous dance couple with Edmond/ Ernst Van Duren. They performed all over Europe and the US, where they were engaged by Florenz Ziegfeld for his Palm Beach Follies (1926). She plays in 8 films between 1922 and 1938.

[sci-firenegade]

Paris, 1938

Conrad Veidt, director Jean Dréville, actress Edmonde Guy and unidentified man, around the time Le Joueur d'Échecs.

He blep

[artdecoandmodernist]

1924 Edmonde Guy, AEG Vampyr Vacuum Cleaner Advertising.

In the Weimar Republic, women were suddenly viewed differently by society: no longer just workers, housewives, and mothers, they were now also voters, consumers, and vehicles for advertising. 

The ‘Vampyr’ vacuum cleaner, elegantly manoeuvred around a grand drawing room by Edmonde Guy, a famous actress and dancer who gained notoriety for her vampish persona. Powered by electricity, the AEG ‘Vampyr’ insatiably sucks up the scattered remnants of daily life from the thick weave of the rug. Edmonde Guy, on the other hand, is driven by a different force entirely – the power of seduction, spending night after night on stage gorging on the willpower of her male audiences at the revue. (x) 

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2018:

Princess Mandane (Germaine Dulac), 1928

[naldibutnice]

Edmonde Guy and Ernst van Duren by Ernst Schneider, c. 1925

[newsfromsomewhere]

AEG Vampyre vacuum cleaner advertising featuring vampish actress and dancer, Edmonde Guy 1924

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

"A Cloud of Feathers in the Land of the Stars," actress and music hall star Edmonde Guy in the February 1927 French Vogue. Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene.

(source: Gallica)