Movie Collection (page 6)

Jill Esmond
Actress Jill Esmond (1908-1990), at the time making her transition from a stage to film acting career. Date: 1931

Sydney Fairbrother and George Robey
Character actors Sydney Fairbrother (1873-1941) and George Robey, also known as George Wade (1869-1954) playing Mrs and Mr Bindle

Joan Bennett (1910-1990) was one of three sisters who all had success as Hollywood actors. Joan appeared in over 70 films, spanning the silent and sound eras. Date: circa 1931

Miniature Film Sets
Danish art director and costume designer Max Ree (1889-1953) works out possible camera angles with the help of miniature film sets

Filming at Elstree Studios
Film director T. Hayes Hunter (1884-1944) working with actors Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) and Edna Best (1900-1974) during the filming of The Calendar at Elstree Studios. Date: 1931

Lilian Bond (1908-1991) was an English actress who achieved success in the United States and made many film appearances. Her film The Dancing Partner was shortly to open in London. Date: circa 1931

Frances Dee
American actress Frances Dee (1909-2004) had a film career spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s. Date: circa 1931

Screen Lovers
Matheson Lang (1879-1948) and Dorothy Chili Bouchier (1909-1999) appearing in the 1931 film Carnival'. This was a re-make of a film from 1921 of the same name, in which Lang had also starred

Alma Rubens
Actress Alma Rubens (1897-1931) appearing as Lady Hermione in the film Gerald Cranston's Lady'. Date: 1924

Georgia Hale
Actress Georgia Hale (1900-1985) had just been picked to appear in Chaplin's film The Gold Rush'. Despite a promising start, her acting career foundered with the advent of the talkies'

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

Laura Cowie in Yoicks!
Laura Cowie (1892-1969) was a Scottish stage and silent film actress. Here she is portraying Lucrezia Borgia in the revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre. 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

Music cover, Sing A Song, Charlie Chaplin
Music cover, Sing A Song, foxtrot song, words and music by Charles Chaplin, Abe Lyman and Gus Arnheim, featured in Charlie Chaplin's comedy film The Gold Rush Date: 1925

Music cover, MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929
Music cover, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hollywood Revue of 1929, Selection of Melodies Date: 1929

Roy Rogers, American actor and singer Date: 1950

Margaret Leighton and Noel Coward, The Astonished Heart
Margaret Leighton and Noel Coward in the film The Astonished Heart

Ava Gardner, American film actress Date: 1950

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

Music cover, Oh the Pity of It All, words by Leo Robin, music by Ralph Rainger, from the 20th Century Fox film My Gal Sal starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature Date: 1942

Music cover, Thinkin about the Wabash, Mae West
Music cover, Thinkin about the Wabash, words by Sammy Cahn and Walter Bullock, music by Jule Styne, sung by Mae West in the Columbia film Tropicana Date: 1943

Music cover, Going My Way, Bing Crosby
Music cover, Going My Way, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen, sung by Bing Crosby in the Paramount film Going My Way Date: 1944

Music cover, You're My Little Pin-Up Girl, Betty Grable
Music cover, You're My Little Pin-Up Girl, words by Mack Gordon, music by James V Monaco, from the Betty Grable 20th Century Fox film Pin-Up Girl Date: 1944

Music cover, A Journey to a Star
Music cover, A Journey to A Star, words by Leo Robin, music by Harry Warren, played by Benny Goodman in the 20th Century Fox film The Girls He Left Behind

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

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

Basil Rathbone diving
English actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, here caught mid-dive. 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

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