Forever Louise Brooks
Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
- As I was searching for photos of Ida Lupino for her birthday yesterday I stumbled upon this portrait said to be taken from a 1937 Argentinian magazine. It’s not great quality but it’s really special. Probably taken in 1933 before she arrived in the U.S.
- Ida had a similar look and pose in this portrait for the British film Prince of Arcadia (1933).
- Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond pose for RKO photographer Ernest Bachrach in support of Flying Down to Rio (1933).
- The finished product: portraits of Dolores and Raymond by Bachrach. Despite Dolores’ star billing, Flying Down to Rio (1933) is best known as the first in a series of classic films featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (here in supporting roles).
- Easter Walters, silent film actress, stunt person and motorcycle enthusiast, 1919.
- Another take of Easter (yes, EASTER) in another pic with her favorite ride: a 1919 Harley-Davidson WF Sport Twin. The Pathé notation on the pic would place this photo with her two films for the studio at the time.
- Easter made only a handful of silent films between 1918 and 1920 but it did get her a feature in a 1919 Pathé feature in Motion Picture magazine. “Outside of celluloid closeups, Easter (that’s her real name!) best of all enjoys motorcycling.”
- Ida Lupino by William Walling, Jr., 1939. #botd
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- I’ve posted a couple before and will again. Just be careful because there are a number of fakes and misidentifications.
- Another take of Ida by Walling for The Light That Failed (1939) directed by William Wellman and her final film for Paramount. Taking not of her acclaimed performance, Warner Brothers execs immediately cast her in the hit They Drive By Night (1940) and then High Sierra (1941).
- One last shot of Ida by Walling, the Paramount photographer who worked with her steadily during her five year tenure at the studio, beginning in 1933 when she arrived from London at the age of fifteen.
