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rainbowchowder:

Merry Christmas!

circa 1927

(Source: thecheshirecatsmeow, via clockofsteam-deactivated2011090)

secondwaltz:

Saks Fifth Avenue, Dec 1920

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clockofsteam:

Vintage 1920s dress

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clockofsteam:

Vintage 1920s dress

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clockofsteam:

1920s clothing at Vintage Textile: #2246 lace flapper dress

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clockofsteam:

1920s clothing at Vintage Textile: #2246 lace flapper dress

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oldhollywood:

Ricardo Cortez in production still from D.W. Griffith’s Faustian tale The Sorrows of Satan (1926), based on Marie Corelli’s 1895 novel of the same name.

oldhollywood:

Ricardo Cortez in production still from D.W. Griffith’s Faustian tale The Sorrows of Satan (1926), based on Marie Corelli’s 1895 novel of the same name.

oldhollywood:

via Street Angel (1928, dir. Frank Borzage)

Complete wrong time period, but I definitely started singing “Earth Angel” for some reason.

oldhollywood:

via Street Angel (1928, dir. Frank Borzage)

Complete wrong time period, but I definitely started singing “Earth Angel” for some reason.

oldhollywood:

Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)

Leave it to me to find more Louise Brooks. At least I’ve avoided reblogging everything from FuckYeahLouiseBrooks!

oldhollywood:

Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)

Leave it to me to find more Louise Brooks. At least I’ve avoided reblogging everything from FuckYeahLouiseBrooks!

oldhollywood:

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in Liberty (1929, dir. Leo McCarey)

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oldhollywood:

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in Liberty (1929, dir. Leo McCarey)

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oldhollywood:

“I am writing a play about a woman dancing with her bare feet in the blood of a man she has craved for and slain.”

-Oscar Wilde (1891)

Alla Nazimova in Salome (1923, dir. Charles Bryant), the screen adaptation of Wilde’s play. Above, she performs the “Dance of the Seven Veils” to seduce King Herod into ordering the beheading of John the Baptist; below, the execution.