1910s Cinema

Stunning Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917) one of the most sought-after lost films.

Madame Mystery (1926)

Shocking to see what they  got away with in the 1910s. Cool!

Iconic Lillian Gish as The Eternal Motherhood in Intolerance (1916) by D. W. Griffith

Notice her stunnig costumes!

Wicked Theda Bara, vamp.

By the late 1910s she was earning more than USD 10,000 A WEEK!

Stunning Marion Davies, 1910s.

In the mid 1910s films started to become longer, greater and more complex. Intolerance was so great and lavish that many people had never seen anything like it before (there had been other colossal films, most notably Cabiria, an italian epic, filmed in 1914)

Gothic Vamp Musidora (top gif) stars as Irma Vep in the French silent crime serial Les Vampires (1915-17), written and directed by Louis Feuillade.

Superstars Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford on the shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. United Artists indeed. 

Known for his muscular physique and acting talents, he made most of his hundreds of films during the 1910s, becoming one the brightest stars of that decade. He became immortalized, however, in 1925′s Ben Hur as Messala, opposite then-latin-lover Ramon Novarro.

Although the famous Virginia Rappe-Arbuckle scandal belongs to the 1920s, they were mostly active during the 1910s. The story is well known by all of us.

Super Star Comedienne Mabel Normand, one of the brightest stars of the 1910s.