Mae West (40) in I’m No Angel. Costume design by Travis Banton. 1933.
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Josephine Baker, 1930s.
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Alma Rubens…silent film star
Alma Rubens (1897-1931) was an American film actress and stage performer.
Rubens began her career in the mid 1910s. She quickly rose to stardom in 1916 after appearing opposite Douglas Fairbanks in The Half Breed. For the remainder of the decade, she appeared in supporting roles in comedies and drama. In the 1920s, Rubens developed a drug addiction which eventually ended her career. She died of lobar pneumonia and bronchitis shortly after being arrested for cocaine possession in early January 1931.
Esther Ralston, Vanity Fair, Photo by Nickolas Muray, October 1926.
Esther Ralston (née Esther Louise Worth; Born 1902 in Bar Harbor, Maine – Died 1994 in Ventura, California) was an American film actress who was popular in the silent era.
Esther Ralston began her career as a child actress in a family vaudeville act which was billed as "The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America's Youngest Juliet". From this, she appeared in a few small silent film roles including a role alongside her brother in the 1920 film adaptation of Huckleberry Finn. Ralston later gained attention as Mrs. Darling in the 1924 film version of Peter Pan.
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