Miriam Cooper in Birth of a Nation… often overlooked after Gish and Mae Marsh but a star of Griffith’s troublesome masterwork…

http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-difficult-one-birth-of-nation-1915.html

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/terry-and-gene-at-bfi-razors-edge-1946.html

“…a shot of Buster Keaton sadness, a dash of Chaplin charm, mixed with the champagne coronation Asta Nielsen… a stunning transformation.”

Asta wears the trousers… Das Liebes-ABC (1916)

http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/asta-wears-trousers-das-liebes-abc-1916.html

House Peters + Beariz Michelena - Salomy Jane (1914)

More details here:

http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/redwood-stage-beatriz-michelena-in.html

everainsplanet:

adelphe:

Norma Talmadge 1920s

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Beatriz Michelena, Matt Snyder + William Nigh - Salomy Jane (1914) still

Beatriz Michelena, Matt Snyder + Harold B. Meade - Salomy Jane (1914)

Beatriz Michelena Photoplay Magazine March 1915

littlehorrorshop:

Jean Harlow in Red Dust, 1932

Maybe Jean’s best film (alongside Bombshell…)?

Eugenia Tettoni Fior in The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)

http://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/epic-tableau-last-days-of-pompeii-1913.html