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Gloria Swanson (Don't Change Your Husband, Queen Kelly, Sadie Thompson, Sunset Boulevard)—the absolute BALLS this woman had! an icon of the 1920s, her career had simmered down, decent living in radio, deciding you know what? you know what i'll do? I'll star as the haggard old aging decrepit horror icon in Sunset Boulevard, that's what I'll do. Nobody else in Hollywood would take the part (every other actress didn't want to be framed as a has-been)—gloria said, fuck that, I'll eat this role alive and serve cunt the whole time. she was still so gorgeous when they made Sunset Boulevard they had to intentionally make her up/costume her to make her look older than she was. mad respect for the screen legend who says yeah, i am a screen legend, i was always that bitch and here I am again to prove it
Mary Nolan (West of Zanzibar, Desert Nights)—mary nolan had star quality in spades but her career was sadly plagued by tragedy and scandal (though really a lot of what was characterized as "scandal" by the press was more like "men being physically abusive"). she reinvented her career multiple times, first becoming very popular as a ziegfeld girl in the early 1920s under the stage name imogene "bubbles" wilson (said a columnist of the time, "only two people in America would bring every reporter in New York to the docks to see them off. one is the President. the other is Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson.") but after some shit involving a shitty dude got her fired from the follies for negative media attention she went to europe and made films in germany under the name imogene robertson for a few years. in 1927 she accepted the offer of a contract from united artists and returned to the u.s., taking on the stage name mary nolan. she was received favorably in films like west of zanzibar as lon chaney's daughter, and desert nights opposite john gilbert, but she began having difficulty finding work in the early 30s, having at that point acquired a morphine addiction, and she made her final film appearance in 1933, intermittently working in vaudeville and nightclubs. uh well this propaganda ended up super sad but here's a short clip of her in action in a 1930 movie
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Gloria Swanson:
She was THE idea of a 1920s sex comedy star, and was a hot (and totally unhinged) older woman in Sunset Boulevard. Hot as a young woman and as an older woman? Yes plz
I feel like she would slay in alternative fashion
her performance as Norma Desmond in sunset boulevard makes me insane. I love her
Mary Nolan:
Shockingly modern style of acting! She could pop up today and be a starlette all over again
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Lady of The Day 🌹 Mary Nolan ❤️
#silent film#silent era#silent actress#mary nolan#silent cinema#1920s cinema#silent film actresses#vintage beauty
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beautiful women of the past (imo) v
#women in history#mary nolan#mata hari#dolores costello#machiko kyo#sadayakko#zitkala-sa#hedy lamarr#lily brayton#aida overton walker#eleanor gutohrlein#karla gutohrlein#*#vintage#photography#ph#this is fun i might keep doing it
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Mary Nolan a.k.a. Imogene Robertson in Erinnerungen einer Nonne (1927)
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John Gilbert and Mary Nolan in Desert Nights (William Nigh, 1929)
#oh the intensity#john gilbert#mary nolan#desert nights#classic film#classicfilmsource#silent film#silent era#1920s#gifset#my gifs
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Etta Lee (The Toll of the Sea)— silent actress Etta Lee, born in Hawaii to a Chinese father and French mother, is another compelling figure who in her career was relegated to secondary roles, often maids or exoticized parts, who you can imagine doing so much more given opportunity
Mary Nolan (West of Zanzibar, Desert Nights)—mary nolan had star quality in spades but her career was sadly plagued by tragedy and scandal (though really a lot of what was characterized as "scandal" by the press was more like "men being physically abusive"). she reinvented her career multiple times, first becoming very popular as a ziegfeld girl in the early 1920s under the stage name imogene "bubbles" wilson (said a columnist of the time, "only two people in America would bring every reporter in New York to the docks to see them off. one is the President. the other is Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson.") but after some shit involving a shitty dude got her fired from the follies for negative media attention she went to europe and made films in germany under the name imogene robertson for a few years. in 1927 she accepted the offer of a contract from united artists and returned to the u.s., taking on the stage name mary nolan. she was received favorably in films like west of zanzibar as lon chaney's daughter, and desert nights opposite john gilbert, but she began having difficulty finding work in the early 30s, having at that point acquired a morphine addiction, and she made her final film appearance in 1933, intermittently working in vaudeville and nightclubs. uh well this propaganda ended up super sad but here's a short clip of her in action in a 1930 movie
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Etta Lee:
Mary Nolan:
Shockingly modern style of acting! She could pop up today and be a starlette all over again
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Mary Nolan ❤️
#silent film#silent era#silent actress#mary nolan#silent cinema#1920s cinema#silent film actresses#ziegfield girl#vintage beauty
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Mary Nolan
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 370.
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West of Zanzibar (MGM, 1928)
#west of zanzibar#lon chaney#lionel barrymore#mary nolan#warner baxter#tod browning#1920s movies#1920s hollywood#drama#mystery#movie posters
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