The Jazz Era

Fredric March and Claudette Colbert in The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Norma Shearer on the way to her dressing room between scenes while filming “Private Lives,” 1931. Photographed by William Grimes.

Nancy Crystalworks Luxor perfume bottle, 1920s

"In early 1932, Garbo played a fading ballerina in an episode of Grand Hotel. It was the first Hollywood film with several stars in the same movie, each with a dif­ferent story, all staying at Berlin’s Grand Hotel. It launched a popular film genre—the all-star movie. Garbo is surprisingly persuasive as the ballerina. She wears a tutu, although she doesn’t dance en pointe, and her love scenes with the aging John Barrymore are campy. But she pronounced her famous line “I want to be alone” in the film. Producers often had stars refer to their off-screen lives in their films to promote interest in them as personalities, encouraging audience members to identify with their favorite stars, whose lives were detailed in the movie fan magazines." (Ideal Beauty: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo)

Grand Hotel (1932) - directed by Edmund Goulding

John Barrymore photographed by George Hurrell for his role as 'Baron Felix von Geigern' in Grand Hotel (1932)

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GRAND HOTEL (1932)

Shanghai Express (1932) Dir. Josef von Sternberg

Anna May Wong by Clarence Sinclair Bull, circa late 1920s

Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price (1932)

1925 c. Ruby and diamond floral-style necklace. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau & 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

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Mae Murray in The Merry Widow, 1925.