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Showing posts with label Silent Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silent Films. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2026

JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PRESENTS by CARI BEAUCHAMP ! MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW

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JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PRESENTS by CARI BEAUCHAMP !  MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW First posted May 14, 2009 Long wait for this new book from t...
Friday, July 10, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON AT THE HEIGHT OF HER CAREER : SHE FELT BLACKMAILED INTO AN EXPENSIVE DIVORCE BY HER HUSBAND AND THE HAYS OFFICE

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Excerpt page 5 : In 1924, Hollywood movies were made on sets built on stages and back lots. Newfangled rear projection and process-screen ph...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON IN THE 1923 SILENT FILM "ZAZA"

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Gloria Swanson was one of those few actors who was able to go from the acting - later considered exaggerated expressions to convey the emot...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

GLORIA SWANSON and HER RED CARNATIONS

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Gloria Swanson was known to carry a red carnation when she was out in public or appeared on a television talk show, so that flower became a...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

THE SCANDAL THAT RUINED "AMERICAN VENUS" AUDREY MUNSON'S MODELING CAREER

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"American Venus" or "Miss Manhattan" : Audrey Muson's image continues in paintings, sculptures, and magazine covers....
Monday, November 11, 2024

AUDREY MUNSON : AN ATTEMPT TO BE ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY and MARRY A SILVER MINING HEIR GOES WRONG : THERE'S NO GOING FROM BOARDING HOUSE TO NEWPORT "COTTAGE"

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Unlike the ever critical mother of Maria Callas , whom was our Mistress of the Month last month, Audrey Munson 's divorced mother Kitti...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

AUDREY MUNSON : AMERICA'S FIRST "SUPERMODEL" : AN ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT WITH A MARRIED MEN LED TO HIS SUICIDE AND THE END OF HER CAREER and SANITY

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AUDREY MUNSON Audrie Marie Munson 1891-1996 I'm electing Audrey Munson , called "America's First Supermodel" to the Honora...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

EVELYN NESBIT AMERICAN EVE : A SILENT MOVIE (Lots of Modeling Photos!)

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Two videos... Lots of modeling photos of Evelyn Nesbit, as well as STANFORD WHITE, the headlines, the trial called "Murder of the Ce...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

LOUISE BROOKS SPEAKING OF THE LIFE SHE LEAD IN 1948 and 1953 AS A KEPT WOMAN

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Kenneth Tynan writing in the introduction of the book "Lulu in Hollywood".  This is what LOUISE BROOKS told him, printed on page ...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

LOUISE BROOKS IN PANDORA'S BOX 1929

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 UPDATE JUNE 2021  STOP!  Due to a copyright claim to YouTube the film has been taken down. I'm linking to the full film on YouTube   YO...
Friday, February 7, 2014

LOUISE BROOKS ON BECOMING SOPHISTICATED

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page 10  Excerpted from LULU IN HOLLYWOOD - essays by LOUISE BROOKS ..."Culture, I was to learn, was not a prerequisite for becoming ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

LOUISE BROOKS TO KENNETH TYNAN ON BEING MOLESTED AS A GIRL

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To Kenneth Tynan in the Introduction of  of LULU IN HOLLYWOOD - essays by LOUISE BROOKS . "Having paused to light a cigarette, which ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

LOUISE BROOKS - FREE SPIRITED SILENT SCREEN STAR : MISTRESS OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY 2013

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1906-1985 You may know the iconographic face because of the black helmet of hair worn in a severe bob and the black smoldering eyes peer...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

GARBO AS MATA HARI for the 1932 MOVIE "TEMPTRESS OF THE SECRET SERVICE"

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

MARION DAVIES : 1928 THE PATSY : SILENT FILM

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

MARION "ROSEBUD" DAVIES : MISTRESS OF NEWSPAPER MAN AND HEARST CASTLE BUILDER WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST

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MARION DAVIES  is one of the most known mistresses in the world. That's because when his wife would not go through a divorce, Willi...