Cinema Collection (page 5)

The City That Never Sleeps
Scenes from the lost 1924 silent film The City That Never Sleeps, showing a prohibitionist nightclub. Date: 1924

Stills from The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924

Mae Murray (1885-1965) the American actress, dancer, film producer and screenwriter, born Marie Koenig. Here she is appearing in the silent film Circe The Enchantress'. Date: circa 1925

Mildred Harris in The Deceivers
Actress Mildred Harris (1901-1944) started as a child actress, had a succesful career in silent movies, but struggled with the advent of talkies'. She was also the first wife of Charlie Chaplin

Flora Le Breton (1899-1951) was an English stage and silent film actress who moved to the United States in 1924. Date: circa 1924

Fay Compton With Dog
Versatile actress Fay Compton (1894-1978) was born Virginia Compton-Mackenzie. Her theatre career embraced Shakespeare, comedy, pantomime, drama and the classics, and she appeared in over 40 films

Georges Carpentier, boxer, in film The Wonder Man
Georges Carpentier, boxer, in film drama The Wonder Man, at the Electric Palace cinema, Littlehampton Date: 1921

Colour The Townscape, Hockley Cinema
Illustration showing Hockley Cinema, in Birmingham, architect, L. L. Dussault, F.R.I.B.A. Part of the Colour The Townscape supplement, showing bright and clean use of colours. Date: circa 1930

Judith Barrett
American actress Judith Barrett (1909-2000), also known as Lucille Kelley and Nancy Dover. Her final film role was to be a year later in Those Were the Days! Date: circa 1939

Joan Crawford and Charles Martin
Hollywood actor Joan Crawford (1908?-1977) with Charles Martin at the theatre. Date: 1939

Virginia Field and Hal Roach, Jr
Actress Virginia Field (1917-1992) and producer Hal Roach, Jr (1918-1972) in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Anna Neagle and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Actors Anna Neagle (1904-1986) and Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) at supper in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Virginia Dale
Actress Virginia Dale (1917-1994) near the beginning of her film and television career. Date: circa 1939

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Mickey Rooney and Lilian Long
Actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) having his buttonhole primped by Lilian Long. Date: 1939

Olivia de Havilland, Franchot Tone and Joan Fontaine
Actors - and sisters - Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) and Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) with actor Franchot Tone (1905-1968) at the Trocadero in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Ginger Rogers and David Niven
Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) and David Niven (1910-1983) in publicity for the film Bachelor Mother'. Date: 1939

Advert for Cannes Film Festival
An advert for what would have been the first Cannes Film Festival, in September 1939. The outbreak of World War II meant it was cancelled. The first Cannes Festival eventually happened in 1946

Sally Eilers and Charles Laughton
Actors Sally Eilers (1908-1978) and Charles Laughton (1899-1962) at lunch. Laughton was shortly to play Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and had been tasked to lose three stone for the role

Ann Sheridan in Winter Carnival
American actress Ann Sheridan (1915-1967), real name Clara Lou Sheridan, here appearing in the film Winter Carnival'. Date: 1939

Maurice Chevalier and Marie Dea
Actors Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) and Marie Dea (1912-1992) appearing in the film Pieges ('Personal Column'). Date: 1939

Lili Damita and Errol Flynn
Hollywood actress Lili Damita (1904-1994) had retired from film-making by the time of this photograph. Here she is with her husband Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Date: 1939

Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper and Veronica Balfe
Hollywood actors Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Gary Cooper (1901-1961) and Veronica Balfe (1913-2000). Balfe had been married to Cooper since 1933. Date: 1939

A Gone With The Wind party
Actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), film producer David O. Selznick (1902-1965) and actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) at the Trocadero

Gracie Fields (1898-1979) in Shipyard Sally'. Date: 1939

Actor Conrad Veidt
German actor Conrad Veidt, shortly to appear as Diasar the Magician in the film The Thief of Baghdad'. Date: circa 1939

Loretta Young and Jimmie Stewart
Holloywood stars Loretta Young (1913-2000) and James Jimmie Stewart (1908-1997) at Cafe Victor Hugo. Date: 1939

Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996), perhaps best known for her roles in the Road to... movies. Date: circa 1939

Actress Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) sporting her long bob hairstyle. Date: circa 1939

British actress Anna Neagle (1904-1986), later made a Dame, and born Florence Wilcox. This publicity photograph is from her first Hollywood outing

British actors at a microphone
British actors Greer Garson (1904-1996), Leslie Howard (1893-1943), Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), Brian Aherne (1902-1986), Ronald Coleman (1891-1958) and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) in Hollywood

Annie Vernay and Jean Paqui in Les Otages
Actors Annie Vernay (1921-1941) and Jean Paqui (1921-2006) in a still from the French film Les Otages ('The Hostages')

Marie -Louise Derval, actress
Marie-Louise Derval was a French actress, who went on to have a career in silent film. Here she is depicted in a Russian costume she wore when being presented to the Czar. Date: circa 1910

Isabel Jeans, actress, (1891-1985) studio fashion portrait, with fashion illustration. With description, Miss Isabel Jeans wears an unusual cocktail or cinema gown designed by Peggy Morris

Photograph of Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), actress and Fredric March (1897-1975), actor in "To-night is Ours"

Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson, in Rain, enhanced colour photograph. With description, Joan Crawford got a big break when she was given the part of Sadie Thompson, in "Rain

Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) portraying G. K. Chesterton's sleuth Father Brown in the 1954 film of the same name. In the United States the film was marketed under the title "The

Italian film director and screenwriter Mario Camerini (1895-1981), seen here on the set of his film "Ulysses" which was released in 1954. Date: circa 1953

A scene from the film "Ulysses", directed by Mario Camerini and starring Kirk Douglas in the title role. Here, Ulysses and his crew are disembarking on the island of the Cyclops Polythemus

Scenes from the romantic film, The Broken Melody

William Freshman and Marguerite Allan in Widecombe Fair
William Freshman and Marguerite Allan in British International Pictures film, Widecombe Fair Date: 1929

Sir John Martin Harvey in The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Sir John Martin Harvey in British Filmcraft Production, The Burgomaster of Stilemonde, directed by George Banfield Date: 1929

Two Pioneer films, Streets of London, and The Second Mate - and now in production, Human Cargo Date: 1929

Walter Forde, four Archibald Nettlefold films - director and star of Wait and See, What Next! and Would You Believe It!, and director of The Silent House Date: 1929

Mabel Poulton in film, The Silent House, produced by Archibald Nettlefold, directed by Walter Forde Date: 1929

Mabel Poulton in five Archibald Nettlefold films - Virginia's Husband, Troublesome Wives, Wild Cat Hetty, The Silent House, and The Lavender Lad Date: 1929

British Productions films 1929 and 1930 - The Bondman, The First-Born, The Wrecker, The Burgomaster of Stilemonde, The Woman in White, The Blue Peter, Albino the Outcast, When Knights Were Bold

Argosy Productions film, Ringing the Changes, featuring Henry Edwards and Margot Landa, based on the novel Jix by R Raleigh King, directed by Leslie Hiscott Date: 1929

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