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Stylish platinum Art Deco diamond ring

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Remembering MYRNA DARBY today on her birthday

Darby had a short career in the theatre, and as a Ziegfeld Girl - she was in fact discovered by Flo Ziegfeld himself.

Her Broadway resume included:

* “No Foolin’” (1926); 108 performances at The Globe Theatre (now the Lunt-Fontanne).

* "Rio Rita" (1927/28); 494 performances at three different venues: Ziegfeld Theatre (demolished 1966); Lyric Theatre (renovated 1996); The Majestic (still open).

* "Rosalie" (1928); 335 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre (still open).

* "Three Musketeers” (1928); 315 performances at the Lyric Theatre.

* "Whoopee" (1928/29); 407 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Darby appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927.

She also modeled, and appeared with fellow Ziegfeld Girls Muriel Finlay, Blanche Satchel and Jean Ackerman in magazine ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

She was considered one of the sweetest and nicest young women in the business (she would bring homemade cookies to the theatre for the staff and crew), and her future looked bright. However, Darby was diagnosed with heart problems, and after swimming one day, it’s believed that she suffered a sunstroke-induced heart infection.

Sadly, Myrna Darby died on Sept. 28th in NY City in 1929. She was only 21.

(Photo of Myrna Darby by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1927)

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Russell Patterson

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Carmelita Geraghty, 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star ⭐

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Norma Talmadge on the cover of Photoplay Magazine (December, 1929)

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Rare photographs of Hamburg in the 1920s

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Hispano-Suiza (1929)

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Man Ray. Woman with Long Hair, 1929

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929) dir. Jacques Feyder

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Constantin Brancusi Mademoiselle Pogany II, 1925 polished bronze

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Portrait Of Gloria Swanson Behind Lace

Photographer: Edward Steichen

Vanity Fair, February 1st, 1928

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The Mysterious Lady (1928) dir. Fred Niblo

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Lillian Gish as Letty Mason in The Wind, (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström