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Mabel Normand in Motion Picture Magazine, via the Media History Digital Library (a much better quality version of a picture I posted previously here!)

Josephine Baker in 1925.

Charlie Chaplin

Ramon Novarro

Hey everyone, I wanted to link you to a piece I recently wrote about Louise Brooks (loosely connected to this blog by the fact that it features my favourite picture of her, above), which covers her life after stardom and considers how we can honour her as more than the kind of filmic fetish object to which she has often been reduced.  

norma shearer

The Birds (1963)

“To what extent do you feel like you were playing Pedro Almodóvar himself in Pain and Glory?” “To a big extent. I knew that it was his alter ego. But the situation is this: Maybe everything that you see in the movie, maybe not all of them happened in the way that they are described. But still, I think this movie is more Almodóvar than Almodóvar. Why? Because what are we? Are we the things that we have done, the things that we have said, or are we the things that we wanted to say but we didn’t say? The things that we wanted to do but we never did? Almodóvar, in this movie, comes to terms with himself and his fans, and with the people that probably he left circles open. There is reconciliation with his mother. There is forgiveness. For him, I think this movie became very therapeutic in a way, because I remember that he was getting happier and happier as the movie was advancing” — Antonio Banderas on Pain and Glory

Ivan Mosjoukine Feu Mathias Pascal, Marcel L'Herbier (1926).

Erik Aaes' movie poster for L'inhumaine (1924), Marcel L'Herbier

L’argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)

L’inhumaine (Marcel L’Herbier, 1924)

L’inhumaine (1924), directed by Marcel L’Herbier (April 23, 1888 – November 26, 1979).

Brigitte Helm on the set of L'Argent (1928, Marcel L'Herbier)