Nitrate Diva

Ann Dvorak in G-Men (1935).

Nightclub chorus girls dancing in Penthouse (1933).

Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case (1929).

Yvonne de Carlo dancing (with a very young Tony Curtis!) in Criss Cross (1949).

Jane Russell in Son of Paleface (1952).

Some Busby Berkeley razzle-dazzle in Night World (1932). 

Carole Lombard in Nothing Sacred (1937), her only color film.

Surviving footage of Rough House Rosie (1927), a lost film, from the trailer. (Click on the gifs for larger versions!)

An Edgar G. Ulmer chiaroscuro from Detour (1945).

The ethereal Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case (1929).