#silent era of cinema

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Silent Era star Ione Bright

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The Illusion in Sherlock Jr. explained in Movie Magic & Mysteries: The Making of Sherlock Jr.

[celebratetheclassics]

Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)

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Joan Crawford photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise C. 1926/1925

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Buster Keaton posing as the Venus De Milo, c. 1927

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Louise Brooks

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Salomé (1922)  

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Charles Bryant & Nazimova

Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger

Performer: Nazimova

Art Director & Costume Designer: Natacha Rambova (inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé illustrations)

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from Motion Picture Magazine, April 1923

original caption:

MARIE PREVOST

Someone said the flappers—the younger set—of the screen lacked erudition. So Marie Prevost posed for the above photograph before she began work on "Brass," a screen version of the Norris novel. It would seem to belie the implication. Incidentally, Miss Prevost verifies the rumor of her engagement to Kenneth Harlan. They will be wed in the green Springtime

Photographer: Alfred Cheney Johnston

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Pola Negri ❤️

[busterkeatonsociety]

#TalkieTuesday - Yesterday we showed you Elsie Ames doing Buster’s famous ‘Butcher Boy’ fall. Today we give you a quote from Eleanor, describing the stunt with clips showing Buster performing his gravity-defying two-legs-on-the-bar trick over the years.

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Greta Garbo, Photographed By Ruth Harriet Louise

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton The Cook (1918)

[celebratetheclassics]

Conrad Veidt in Kreuzzug des Weibes (Martin Berger, 1926)

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Clara Bow

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Buster Keaton and Marceline Day

Film: The Cameraman 1928

[cashmerecrow]

"Cesare, he knows all!"

"ask away!"