#arnold genthe

[catsofyore]

Actress, director, producer, and author Eva Le Gallienne with co-pilot, 1937. Source.

[silent--era]

Jeanne Eagels photographed by Arnold Genthe, 1927

[weirdlookindog]

Mme. Erna Carise with a Dog

by Arnold Genthe, 1928

[labyrinthofstreams]

Model Gurta Andre, April 25, 1928.

Photographed by Arnold Genthe.

[vintage-every-day]

Miss Jocelyn Stebbins and Buzzer (1912-1913). Photo Arnold Genthe.

[contremineur]

Arnold Genthe, Young Japanese woman (1908)

from here – thank you, s-h-o-w-a

[circus-sonata]

by Arnold Genthe Japan, 1908

[gacougnol]

Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)

Eva Le Gallienne with cat, outdoors

1937

[allgarbo]

"What she had was incredibly instinctual—and dazzling," said Gottfried Reinhardt. "She could walk in a room and talk absolute rot, but she dazzled you." Sam Green viewed Garbo from a different perspective. "She was the best conversationalist of anybody I knew," he says. "She put things in a kind of prose, which I daresay she thought about a good deal because she had a lot of time alone... She made up her own rules and, of course, there were special codes. There were references to things that happened in the past that we developed a whole kind of strange dialogue and vocabulary [for] . . . She loved making up codes. You'd tell her something and three days later, she’d come up with an entirely different version which was very funny. She was a comedienne, and it was worth seeing what her take was and how far her imagination would take her.... She was more playful than anybody my age."

Of course, there were many subjects that one dared not broach with her. Friends learned that Garbo talked about herself only in the most indirect terms. "I think she thought if she never referred to herself, no one could quote her," says Betty Spiegel. In the twenty years that Sam Green knew her, she rarely used the words I, me, or mine. In effect, she viewed her past in much the same way as she looked at her movies: removed, impersonal—almost as if it had been someone else's life.

Greta Garbo by Arnold Genthe c. 1925

[henk-heijmans]

Dancer Anna Duncan as a wood nymph, Vanity Fair, ca. 1926 - by Arnold Genthe (1869 – 1942), German/American

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Riders gather in Central Park, 1927.

Photo: Arnold Genthe via Alamy

[toiich]

‘Martha Graham’, Arnold Genthe, 1928

[silent--era]

Helen Freeman photographed by Arnold Genthe, 1915

[the-cricket-chirps]

Arnold Genthe, Lee Miller, 1927

Man Ray, Lee Miller, 1929-1932

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Prompt: Portrait of a Poet

Select a portrait of a poet, such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron or Edna St. Vincent Millay by Arnold Genthe.

Find a poem by your chosen poet. Which poetic devices (e.g., metaphor, assonance,alliteration) does the writer utilize? Use at least one of these devices in an original poem that is addressed to the writer.

Finally, create your own portrait of a poet—a self-portrait.

Sources: 1 2

If this prompt inspires you in any way, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read your work!

[vintage-every-day]

Miss Bonnie Maude and the cat Buzzer (between 1912 und 1918). Photo by Arnold Genthe.