Jean Hersholt had many talents. Here he is sketching a portrait of Greta Garbo, with images of Lewis Stone, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore in the background.

Buster Keaton, Dorothy Jordan, and Jean Hersholt at Buster's land yacht

Mark of the Vampire

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Edgar Bergen's "suppressed desire" party, where people were to dress as their childhood ambitions

Bette Davis as a ballet dancer

Jean Hersholt as a doctor

Joan Blondell as a "South Seas beauty" (??)

Betty Grable as a harem girl (???)

Lillian Barker and Chester Morris as Carole Lombard and Clark Gable

Silver Screen Magazine, July 1932.

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Mark of the Vampire 1935 Bela Lugosi as Count Mora

Jean Hersholt-Fay Wray "Melodía para tres" (Melody for three) 1941, de Erle C. Kenton.

Mark of the Vampire will be released on Blu-ray on October 11 via Warner Archive. Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), the 1935 horror film is an uncredited remake of 1927's London After Midnight.

Guy Endore (The Curse of the Werewolf) and Bernard Schubert (The Mummy's Curse) penned the script. Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt star.

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In a remote village in Central Europe, a nobleman's body is found drained of it's blood and with two small punctures on the neck-the Mark of the Vampire. An ancient terror, a horror that won't die, haunts the village: the long undead Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter, Luna (Carroll Borland), rule the night. But the vampires have not fed on the people of the village for a very long time. Now, with the help of an expert in the occult, Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore), and local Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt), police inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) unearths a mystery far stranger and more terrifying than anyone could have imagined!

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Jean Hersholt, president of AMPAS, and Ingrid Bergman present James Baskett with a bronze replica of the Oscar for his characterization of Uncle Remus in SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946). #Oscars

Audrey Hepburn holding her Academy Award for Best Actress for Roman Holiday with presenter Jean Hersholt at the 26th Academy Awards in New York March 25, 1954

Norma Shearer, Ramon Novarro, and Jean Hersholt in The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, 1927) Cast: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz Lutz: Edgar Norton, Bobbie Mack, Philippe De Lacy, Otis Harlan. Screenplay: Hanns Kräly, based on a book and play by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster. Cinematography: John J. Mescall. Art direction: Richard Day, Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Andrew Marton.  Though The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg sometimes seems as overextended as its title, given the slightness of its love-or-duty plot, it gets a good deal of zip from Ernst Lubitsch's direction and from the charm of its leads, Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer. The latter, especially, is seen to good advantage in a role that doesn't call on her to over-emote, a trap she sometimes fell into in many of her sound roles. Lubitsch inserts sly gags here and there to leaven the obviousness of the plot. After perhaps one too many scenes of students quaffing beer, there's a card to remind us that they were at the university to learn, too, followed by a shot of a professor droning away at a lectern to a classroom of a single student. Eventually, the film bogs down a bit when Novarro's Karl Heinrich is called away to princely duties and has to forsake Shearer's lovely barmaid. 

За кулисами Голливуда. Режиссер Эдгар Селвин (на помосте в центре) начинает съемки нового фильма, давая указания стоящим внизу актерам: Норману Фостеру, Джину Хершольту, Аните Пейдж и Уоллесу Форду.

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt on a vintage postcard