#lily pons

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Marilyn Miller: Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (1918 Broadway); Sally of the Alley in Sally (1920 Broadway); Sunny in Sunny (1925 Broadway); Joan Crawford in As Thousands Cheer (1933 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Lily Pons:

Marilyn Miller:

a bisexual queen and the namesake of marilyn monroe

[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, January 1936.

[princesssarisa]

Listening to the 1950 Met broadcast of The Barber of Seville with Lily Pons as Rosina.

In the "Ah, qual colpo" trio, she pronounces "signore" as "signori."

Now, of course she couldn't help it that some of her pronunciation was "off." She was French, not Italian. Although her mother was Italian, which probably helped her be more fluent than she could have been.

Still, she accidentally sings the plural instead of the singular, so it sounds like she's singing to both the Count and Figaro instead of just the Count. I can't help but think "polyamorous Rosina."

[opera-ghosts]

Fille du Régiment

Il faut partir

Metropolitan Opera Matinée Broadcast 28th December, 1940

Marie.................Lily Pons

Review of Virgil Thomson in the New York Herald:

"The singing was good. Miss Pons is not the greatest coloratura soprano one has ever heard; her voice is a little too brilliant. But her personality is so easy and engaging that one is always glad to see her on a stage, and she is far from unpleasant to hear. Mr. Baccaloni is always a pleasure to hear and watch. Irra Petina, an excellent singing comedienne, is likewise an ornament to any cast. The three of them yesterday gave a style to the performance that was far above the level of what easily might have been just a routine revival of a not awfully exciting work. Raoul Jobin, though far from possessing the distinction of the other three, has a richly resonant tenor voice and yesterday looked not too badly in his mountaineer clothes. The scenery was cute; and it looked expensive, just as operatic scenery should. The costumes were all right too, only there is nothing more tiring to the eye in a theater tham military uniforms, no matter how bright they may be in color. [The opera] has gaiety and melodic eloquence; it is good Donizetti all right. Only it isn't the best Donizetti. It lacks occasions for the grander flights of feeling and most especially for those magnificently theatrical and expressive concerted numbers that he could write as no other composer ever did, excepting Mozart. And so, though the piece was a worthy one and yesterday's cast a distinguished one, though the mounting was in every respect adequate and at all times agreeable, still the entertainment never quite got off the ground. The orchestra sounded fine as usual. The pleasant memory of the occasion, however, remains Miss Pons."

[stone-cold-groove]

Juicy confessions.

[gatutor]

Lily Pons-Henry Fonda "Canción de amor" (I dream too much) 1935, de John Cromwell.

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Lily Pons #botd

Photo by Cecil Beaton

[norashelley]

There's music in the air! Gladys Swarthout, Jeanette MacDonald, Lily Pons, and Grace Moore caught by photographer at the Basil Rathbone garden party given in honor of the newly-weds, Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers, Jeanette Macdonald and Gene Raymond.

[vintage-every-day]

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Lily Pons performing ''I Hit a New High'' in 𝑯𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉, a 1937 comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1938.

[flyingbrickwall]

Andre Kostelanetz and Lily Pons, c. 1940s.

Portrait by Adrian Siegel.

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Pola Negri: Anieli in Śluby panieńskie (1912 Warsaw); Hedvig in The Wild Duck (1914 Warsaw); Yannaia in Sumurun (1917 Berlin)

Lily Pons: Lakmé in Lakmé (1928 Mulhouse); Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (1931 Met); Linda in Linda di Chamounix (1934 Met)

Propaganda under the cut.

Pola Negri:

A bisexual femme fatale sex symbol from Poland, we love to see it! She dated Valentino and Chaplin and spent like two decades living with her oil heiress girlfriend. She was living the life, the hottest catch, ten out of ten would marry her

Lily Pons:

[jeanharlowshair]

Movie Classic Magazine, December 1935.

[therileyandkimmyshow]

Podcast 3771

[opera-ghosts]

Fille du Régiment

Chacun le sait

Metropolitan Opera

Matinée Broadcast

28th December, 1940

Marie.................Lily Pons

Review of Virgil Thomson in the New York Herald:

"The singing was good. Miss Pons is not the greatest coloratura soprano one has ever heard; her voice is a little too brilliant. But her personality is so easy and engaging that one is always glad to see her on a stage, and she is far from unpleasant to hear. Mr. Baccaloni is always a pleasure to hear and watch. Irra Petina, an excellent singing comedienne, is likewise an ornament to any cast. The three of them yesterday gave a style to the performance that was far above the level of what easily might have been just a routine revival of a not awfully exciting work. Raoul Jobin, though far from possessing the distinction of the other three, has a richly resonant tenor voice and yesterday looked not too badly in his mountaineer clothes. The scenery was cute; and it looked expensive, just as operatic scenery should. The costumes were all right too, only there is nothing more tiring to the eye in a theater tham military uniforms, no matter how bright they may be in color. [The opera] has gaiety and melodic eloquence; it is good Donizetti all right. Only it isn't the best Donizetti. It lacks occasions for the grander flights of feeling and most especially for those magnificently theatrical and expressive concerted numbers that he could write as no other composer ever did, excepting Mozart. And so, though the piece was a worthy one and yesterday's cast a distinguished one, though the mounting was in every respect adequate and at all times agreeable, still the entertainment never quite got off the ground. The orchestra sounded fine as usual. The pleasant memory of the occasion, however, remains Miss Pons."

[music-crush]

Lily Pons

Joyeux anniversaire, Alice Joséphine "Lily" Pons!