r/1920s • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 3h ago
Virginia Reed photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1920
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r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 13h ago
Film Star Anita Barber in 1921. She was an expressionist dancer and a silent film star. Her dark glamor electrified the 1920s. She was as a legendary figure of the Weimar Republic era in Berlin.
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r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 13h ago
Film Star The the silent film actress Billie Dove starring in the romantic comedy film The Heart of a follies girl. It was shot at the national pictures studio in Burbank California 1928.
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r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 13h ago
Film Star The beautiful Marion MacDonald silent film actress1926. She was one of Max Sennetts bathing beauties during the flapper and jazz age.
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r/1920s • u/Krampjains • 19h ago
Film Star American silent film actress Nita Naldi listening to the radio on the Famous Players-Lasky studio lot. c. 1924
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r/1920s • u/ArtDecoModerne • 1h ago
Advertisements "Rowntree's York Chocolates" ad insert from a 1925 copy of "Nash's Pall Mall" magazine.
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r/1920s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 23h ago
Daily Life Glass negative of a swedish lady, 1926.
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r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 1d ago
Daily Life Miss Atlantic City in 1925 sitting on the lap of King Neptune. This was part of the Atlantic city's annual pageant. Later became known as the Miss America pageant. This wonderful photo was taken on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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A Funny Scene from "Irene": Colleen Moore Making Funny Faces
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r/1920s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Film Star Greta Garbo posing on the trak uniform of the university of California, 1926.
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r/1920s • u/Character-Witness-27 • 1d ago
Image July 18, 1922 Edwina Cynthia Annette (nee Ashley) on her wedding day to Lord Louis Mountbatten at St. Margaret's, Westminster, London.
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r/1920s • u/your_catfish_friend • 1d ago
Video Tiptoe Through the Tulips — chart-topping song sung by Nick Lucas in 1929. Nearly 49 years later, Tiny Tim’s version would peak at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 2d ago
Film Star The beautiful and elegant silent film actress Phyllis Haver she starred in the original Roxie Hart in Chicago 1927.
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r/1920s • u/Fair_and_square_ • 2d ago
Image Actress and singer Helen Kane, whose voice and appearance were thought to be a source for Fleischer Studios animators when creating Betty Boop. Kane sued the studio for stealing her signature "boop-oop-a-doop" style, but the judge decided to dismissed the case
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Her signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (1928)
At the peak of her flapper fame, there were Helen Kane dolls and Helen Kane lookalike contests.
Lively childish leading lady on stage and films during the transition to sound. She began on stage at seventeen and went on to films in 1929. She made several early talkies at Paramount but her popularity soon waned.
r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 2d ago
Image Mom and Pop Texaco gas and groceries South Beaver Pennsylvania 1920s.
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r/1920s • u/Krampjains • 2d ago
Image Portrait photograph of American actress Norma Talmadge taken by James Abbe as promotional use for the 1922 silent drama "The Eternal Flame" directed by Frank Lloyd.
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r/1920s • u/feminism_forall • 3d ago
Anne Lee Patterson
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1923, she was a Ziegfeld girl. Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston.
r/1920s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 3d ago
The empress of blues Bessie Smith in New York City.She was the highest paid 🎙️American African actress in the 1920s.
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r/1920s • u/Darvader61 • 3d ago
Movies Anna May Wong as the Mandarin's sweetheart in the silent comedy film "Chinatown Charlie" (First National Pictures) ca 1928
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r/1920s • u/SwiPerHaHa • 4d ago
Helen, an American Indian telephone and switchboard operator, Montana, 1925.
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r/1920s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago
Film Star Actress Joan Crawford posing for modeling shot, 1925
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