PLVS VLTRA

Photo by Mat Collishaw

The usual suspects, Art Shay

Frederikke Sofie by Jason Lee Parry

(Source: vialibri.net)

From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921.

From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921.

Myrna Loy, 1920s

From ‘Forbidden Fruit’ 1921 - An American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Agnes Ayers, Forrest Stanley & Clarence Burton.

1920s Swedish Star Postcard - Pola Negri in ‘The Spanish Dancer’ 1923.

      Vilma Banky Promotional Photographs ‘The Son of the Sheik’ 1926.

  Walter Ruttmann & Lotte Lendesdorf ‘Das wiedergefundene Paradies’ 1925.

1920 Lotte Reininger Animation ‘Das Geheimnis der Marquise’ - .Nivea skin cream commercial advertising film for the Julius Pinschewer agency.

Estelle Taylor

Pola Negri 1920s

“At the top of the stairway of Life, ready to crown Youth if he succeeds in overcoming all obstacles, stands the goddess of Success.” That is the thought conveyed in this imaginative set in the allegorical prologue of “The Man Life Passed By,” an all-star Metro special, written by Victor Schertzinger and Winifred Dunn. Schertzinger directed. 

(The film evokes all the lavish images associated with opulent mid-twenties Hollywood productions, Eventually, the wages of sin and vanity catch up with Flora and destroy her.)