#Lillian Russell

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Marilyn Monroe channeling Lillian Russell for Life Magazine, 1958.

Photographed by Richard Avedon.

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Lillian Russell (December 4, 1860/1861 - June 6, 1922)

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Lillian Russell 1913 colorized

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Lillian Russell: Lady Teazle in Lady Teazle (1904 Broadway); Henrietta Barrington in Wildfire (1908 Broadway); Laura Curtis in The Widow's Might (1909 Broadway)

Ethel Barrymore: Nora Helmer in A Doll's House (1905 Broadway); Rose Trelawny in Trelawny of the Wells (1911 Broadway); Rose Bernd in Rose Bernd (1922 Broadway); Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1922 Broadway); Ophelia in Hamlet (1925 Broadway); Constance Middleton in The Constant Wife (1926 Broadway); Marie-Louise in L'Aiglon (1934 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Lillian Russell:

Ethel Barrymore:

Literally referred to as “The First Lady of the American Theatre,” Ethel is hands-down my favorite of all the Barrymores (no offense to her grand-niece Drew), and a certified icon. She has a breathtakingly beautiful portrait in the National Portrait Gallery of her as Madame Trentoni in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, the show that would make her a star. When adoring audiences kept demanding more and more curtain calls after every performance and she said “That's all there is—there isn't any more!" it became a catchphrase found all over the 1930s. She was a strong union member and instrumental in the Equity strikes of 1919, even when it cost her relationships with important Broadway producers like George M. Cohan. She had a Broadway theater named after her when she was still alive (and still actively working!), and it still bears her name nearly 100 years later. A star of her wattage is rare indeed, and on top of her myriad accomplishments, she’s really fucking hot!!! A young Ethel is beautiful, an older Ethel is dignified, the woman has PRESENCE and a knowledge in her eyes, and there’s a smidge of play dancing underneath her surface. Vote for a genuine Legend of the American Theatre, vote for Ethel Barrymore

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Alice Faye in Lillian Russell (1940). Costume by Travis Banton.

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Beautiful Alice Faye in Lillian Russell 1940 👯‍♀️

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1908 October The Theatre - Lilian Russell 1006X1400. Unfortunately, I did not record the source of this image,

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Diane Brill channeling Lillian Russell.

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Lillian Russell 1860-1922

Lillian Russell, part one million, because she deserves it

“I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty.”–Dryden, Secret Love.

“Observe that part of a beautiful woman where she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts; the smoothness; the softness; the easy and insensible swell.”–Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.

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Quelques portraits de Lillian Russell, actrice et chanteuse du XIXème et XXème siècle

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/lillian-russell-actrice-et-chanteuse-1900/

Quelques portraits de Lillian Russell, actrice et chanteuse du XIXème et XXème siècle

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Found a very cool, very old poster at an antique shop 👀

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Observation I made:

During this part of WftD, the closer the choir is to the front, the more violently they thrash around.

Ricky doesn't really thrash and only raises his crutches.

Mischa and Noel are slightly more intense but it mostly looks like they're reaching for something.

Ocean and Constance have the most intense and violent movements. Ocean's hair flips around and she twists; Constance flails then snaps right back into place

Maybe everyone knows that XD but hey I was the first person to make a post about so there's that! >:D

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Remembering Lillian Russell on her birthday #botd

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 2

Maude Adams: Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1905 Broadway); Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman Knows (1908 Broadway); Jane Thing/Cinderella in A Kiss for Cinderella (1916 Broadway)

Lillian Russell: Lady Teazle in Lady Teazle (1904 Broadway); Henrietta Barrington in Wildfire (1908 Broadway); Laura Curtis in The Widow's Might (1909 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Maude Adams:

She was like. the original Greta Garbo (Ethel Barrymore literally called her that). She was a sexy lesbian, she was an eccentric inventor who liked her privacy, even though she was the highest paid actress of her day she supplemented the salaries of other performers with her own pay

Lillian Russell:

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Lillian Russell (actress) in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience, 1882 at the Bijou.

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Best Friends for Frances

Original Edition: 1969 -- This Edition: 1994 Story: Russell Hoban -- Art: Lillian Hoban