Showing posts with label Silent film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silent film. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Stan Laurel

Arthur Stanley Jefferson. better known to the world as Stan Laurel, in character for a solo film role without his famous comedy partner Oliver Hardy. I'm not sure of the date of this one, but I think it's around 1927, which would mean it was around the time the two men first met.




Original B&W photo.

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Louise Brooks

LOUISE BROOKS zeigfeld
Louise Brooks in 1925. It was quite a busy and important year for Brooks. Among other things, she joined the Ziegfeld Follies, which is where this photo comes from, she had a summer long affair with Charlie Chaplin, she appeared on her first magazine cover, Art & Beauty Magazine, and most importantly for the future star of silent movies, she appeared in her first film, "The Street of Forgotten Men", and signed five year contract with Paramount.

LOUISE BROOKS zeigfeld
Original B&W photo.