#Photographer: Irving Lippman

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Carole Lombard photographed by Irving Lippman to promote her movie Twentieth Century (dir. Howard Hawks, 1934)⁣⁣

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Miriam Hopkins photographed by Irving Lippman, May 1933

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Jean Arthur and dog friend, photographed by Irving Lippman, from the June 1934 Photoplay.

(source: archive.org)

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from Modern Screen, February 1932

original caption:

Joan Blondell finished "Union Depot" with Dough Fairbanks, Jr. She is now busily at work on "The Roar of the Crowd." She plays opposite James Cagney in that one. Joan will wed Cameraman George Barnes, according to reliable reports, when Mr. Barnes' divorce from his present wife becomes final. Joan's wedding is to be at the Little Church Around the Corner.

Photographer: Irving Lippman

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Fay Wray photographed by Irving Lippman, 1936

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Picture Play, August 1933

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Tallulah Bankhead was born on this day 120 years ago. 

She was the main real life inspiration for Disney’s Cruella de Vil in The Hundred and One Dalmatians animation: although her family wasn’t Catholic, the uncontrollable Bankhead was sent away to convents as a child and was twice expelled, once for throwing ink at the Mother Superior and again, at age 12, for making romantic advances towards a nun!

In order to get permission from her father to pursue acting in New York, she promised her father that she’d abstain from men and alcohol. Luckily, as she mentioned in her 1952 tell-all autobiography, there was a loophole: “He didn’t say anything about women and cocaine.” 

Bankhead’s wild, open, shameless sexcapades with men and women made her an instant queer icon, explains biographer Joel Lobenthal in Tallulah!, noting her “visual adoption by some of the most prominent gay women in London.” However, Bankhead never identified as bisexual or any other label. 

Photographer: Irving Lippman

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Maureen O’Sullivan visiting Henry Fonda on the set of Spawn of the North, 1938. Photographed by Irving Lippman 

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Ravageuses smoke. | Jan Sterling by Irving Lippman

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Marilyn Miller at her home by photographer Irving Lippman for Warner Bros and First National pictures, 1932

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Marlene Dietrich photographed by Irving Lippman for The Song of Songs (1933)

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Tim McCoy photographed by Irving Lippman

Shadoplay Vol. 5, No. 4, June 1935

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Bette Davis, 1932.  Photograph by Irving Lippman

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1931 vintage and original photograph of Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford. An exquisite bathing beauty, Irving Lippman has photographed the beauty in a whimsical and surreal swimming pool setting. Just a tremendous old art deco, Golden Age of Hollywood artifact. The press snipe reads: "Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (or Joan Crawford, as you will) contemplates the water before venturing to dive."

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Photoplay, April 1934

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Loretta Young photographed by Irving Lippman, 1932.