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Silent movies and, occasionally, Robert Montgomery.

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marypickfords:
“ 100 years ago today (09/10): Mary Pickford makes her feature film debut in In The Bishop’s Carriage, a four-reel drama directed by Edwin S. Porter and J. Searle Dawley. (x)
”

_{100 years ago today (09/10): Mary Pickford makes her feature

film debut in In The Bishop’s Carriage, a four-reel drama directed by

Edwin S. Porter and J. Searle Dawley. (x)}

(via provoke-insanity)

thefrankshow:

Dorothy and Lillian Gish in “The Sisters,” 1914. “In this period if
your eye was not larger than your mouth, you were not considered
photogenic.” Lillian Gish

(via zynab1929)

brigittehelm:

Brigitte Helm rehearsing at UFA studios by E.O. Hoppé. I’ve posted this before but
I found it without a watermark! Hopefully I’ll be able to find a
version that isn’t so tiny someday, it’s one of my favorite pictures of
her.

nitratediva:

Erich von Stroheim in Blind Husbands (1919).

(via tea-with-theo)

Eleanor Boardman

The Circle, 1925

maudelynn:

Joan Crawford

(Source: maudelynn.tumblr.com )

deforest:

_{Dark, decadent Barbara La Marr’s reputation precedes her.

Famously appointed “The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful” by Adela Rogers St.

Johns, the erotic siren was described as having “a penchant for

drinking, drugs, and debauchery. ‘I take lovers like roses,’ said La

Marr. ‘By the dozen.’”}

_{Screenwriter Paul Bern was besotted with her, but La Marr was interested only in friendship with the pudgy older man…}

_{La Marr refused Bern [and his pleading marriage proposals], but

he would not give up. La Marr preferred the virile cowboy star Jack

Dougherty, so Bern proposed a compromise. “We will have a beautiful

spiritual life together,” he told La Marr. “You and Mr. Jack Dougherty

can have the occasional affair.”}

_{“Dear,” the heavy-lidded La Marr said to Bern, “it will work

better if I sleep with Mr. Dougherty and have the occasional spiritual

affair with you.”}

(Source: chaplinfortheages)

Hedda Hopper

(To my mind, one of the most beautiful women of the silent era. Yeah yeah, I know it’s an unpopular opinion.)

maudelynn:

Pola Negri and Rod La Rocque in Forbidden Paradise c.1924

(Source: maudelynn.tumblr.com )

Greta Garbo

deforest:

_{A law unto herself… She transcends time, fashion, and custom.}

_Adrian_{, 1934}

(via queenkayla)

wehadfacesthen:

Silent film star Barbara LaMarr, 1920s

via vintagemarlene (source: david-paris.blogspot.com)

(via liliana-von-k)

Lew Ayres, c. 1930

Stanley Smith, portrait by Otto Dyar

kittyinva:

Dec., 1922 photo of newly married Dorothy Gish and James Rennie in “Vanity Fair”

(via miwi1010)

deforest:

_{Lillian Gish, 1915}

(via liliana-von-k)

fuckyeahchaplin:

Charlie with Edna Purviance in The Fireman, by Mutual, c.1916

(Source: fuckyeahchaplin.tumblr.com )

deforest:

_{Mary Pickford, 1910s}

(via misstanwyck)

anantoinetteaffair:

_{Marlene Dietrich at Basil Rathbone’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary party in Beverly Hills, c. 1930s.}

(Source: basilrathbone.net, via misstanwyck)

maudelynn:

Clara Bow with Percy Marmont & Ernest Torrence in Mantrap c.1926

deviatesinc:

Lilyan Tashman

(via peggypepper)

meowth812:

Pulled by my friend Anne from The Archives.

(via joelmccrea)

nitratediva:

This is a film studio in Paris. The year is 1905. Can you spot the director?

I’ll give you a hint. She’s wearing a corset.

The woman silhouetted in the center foreground is Alice Guy, the
world’s first female filmmaker and head of production at Gaumont.
Unfortunately, we can’t hear what she’s saying to the cast and crew, but
if you watch this entire clip, you will see her arranging actors and turning on music to help them dance in time.

(via nitrateglow)

Renée Adorée

(Source: haroldlloyds, via ihideinmymusic)

About Silent Locations

salesonfilm:

I am the author of a series of books about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, entitled Silent Traces, Silent Echoes, and Silent Visions,
respectively. My books examine the historical settings preserved in the
background of their classic films, and the changes wrought by the
ensuing decades.

This blog supplements my books with tours, videos, and PowerPoint
lectures that can’t be replicated in books, and new discoveries, and
expanded coverage of the great silent clowns and their home turf, that
would not otherwise be published. Look for discoveries concerning Harry
Langdon, Charley Chase, and other silent stars as well. I welcome your
questions and suggestions, and invite you to step back in time with me
to explore silent-era Hollywood as seen through the eyes of its greatest
comedians.

John Bengtson – “the great detective of silent film locations” New York Times (01/04/13)

John Bengston gave his meticulously-researched, mind-blowing
“Silent Echoes” presentation at Cinecon 49. His site is a must-visit for
fans of silent film!