#charles (1926- )

[xpuigc-bloc]

Pandora (Detail)

1902

oil on canvas

Charles-Amable Lenoir

French, 1860-1926

[yourdailyqueer]

Charles Pierce (deceased)

Gender: Male (she/her in drag)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 14 July 1926  

RIP: 31 May 1999

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Drag artist (preferred male actress), musician, comedian, actor

Note: Was one of the 20th century's foremost female impersonators, particularly noted for his impersonation of Bette Davis.

[marejadilla]

Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (1878 - 1942), from the Book "Les Mille et Une Nuits" par le docteur Joseph-Charles Mardrus, 1926. French orientalist painter and illustrator.

[weirdlookindog]

The Bat (1926)

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, June 10, 1926

[silent--era]

Lenore Ulric photographed by Charles Sheeler, 1926

[rwpohl]

beverly of graustark, sidney franklin 1926

[mote-historie]

Charles Gesmar. Marion Forde, 1926.

Charles Ges(i)mar (1900-1928), simply known as Gesmar, was one of the greatest designers of costumes and posters during the golden age of the Paris music hall during the Jazz Age and was primarily renowned for his work for the great Parisian star Mistinguett. Although his tenure was short, his output was prolific and his creativity and talent unrivalled. (x)

[rabbitcruiser]

The New York Rangers played their first hockey game on November 16, 1926.

[tootern2345]

Before he was an animator and later, director for Universal/Lantz known for his more realistic, weighty animation compared to the others, Manuel Moreno was a teenaged artist working for the Junior Times (a children’s division of the LA Times) around 1924-1926. With his first work there being published around 1923, a year before he worked for the newspaper, The first image is from 1925 and the second is from 1926. After his stint working for the LA Times, (their junior division as said before) He would end up applying as an inbetweener for George Winkler’s Studio around March of 1928 alongside Ray Abrams and would later become an assistant for there & Lantz before being promoted to animator sometime around 1930.

Source is an article from a few months ago done by Gustavo Arellano profiling about Moreno that appeared in the LA Times, Professor & Walter Lantz animation historian, Tom Klein helped out as well.

[chaplinfortheages]

Lion’s name is Numa (1912-1930), named after the lion in the Tarzan books appeared in several films from the silent era but "The Circus" was the highlight of his career.

The lion endured 200 takes in the cage with Charlie Chaplin, with them is lion tamer Charles Gay of the then famous Gay’s Lion Farm.

Gay's Lion Farm (x)

[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

The Devil’s Circus (Benjamin Christensen, 1926)

De bruit et de fureur (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1987)

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 6, 1926, The Bat debuted in Denmark.

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[weirdlookindog]

The Bat (1926)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926) The Death of Sappho, 1896