The Flickers

Mae Murray

W.C. Fields waves as some of Sennett’s’ Bathing Beauties wish him bon voyage. ~ from Cine-Mundial magazine, 1934   

Susanna Foster (1924 - 2009) circa 1945

Jack Oakie c. 1930 from Silver Screen magazine

Jesse Lasky signed Gilda Gray and they made Aloma of the South Seas (1926), which grossed $3,000,000 in its first three months. The success of this Paramount film was enhanced by Gilda's personal appearances doing the shimmy as a promotion. In 1927, she made two more films, The Devil Dancer and Cabaret. When the stock market crashed in 1929, Gilda Gray lost most of her financial assets, but she managed to get a job dancing at the Palace Theater in New York. She also appeared on stage in Cleveland, and became the subject for two very popular ceramic sculptures by Waylande Gregory, "The Nautch Dancer," and "The Burlesque Dancer". She attempted a comeback but in 1931 she suffered a heart attack.

Samuel Goldwyn donated a print of Deadline at Dawn to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1956, it is the only known copy in existence. The film has been shown at festivals and special screenings but has never been released to the general public.

Jean Harlow for Coca-cola

Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield in a publicity photo for The Sea Wolf (1941)

Virginia Browne Faire as Marquette the half-caste girl in The Lost World (1925)

 "The talkie vogue found Carmel Myers prepared.  She was in Broadway musical comedy some seasons ago, and knows her lines." photo by Elmer Fryer ~ from Screenland, 1929

Caption: "Can we believe our eyes? Little brown-haired Mary Brian gone blonde! Calm yourselves, that hair is not gen-u-wine. It's only a wig. Mary gets quite a kick out of it, just as Ann Harding does disguisin' in a black one. Mary has just finished “Hard to Handle” already hard at work on “The Blue Moon Murder Mystery” photo by Bert Longworth ~ from Photoplay, 1933