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Edward Steichen, Gilda Grey in costume for the play Priestess of Night's High Mysteries for Vanity Fair Magazine, December 1st, 1923
Gilda Gray was a showgirl and Ziegfeld Follies star known for popularizing the shimmy dance.
#1923#showgirl#Gilda Grey#Edward Steichen#The Shimmy Queen#the shimmy dance#shimmy dance#dance#Ziegfeld Follies#Ziegfeld Follies star#star#sexy#shimmy#steichen#vanity fair
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Showgirl and actress Avonne Taylor with a friend, c. 1920s
#flapper#1920s#old hollywood#silent film stars#vintage#<3#silent films#1920s fashion#vintage photography#avonne Taylor#follies girl#ziegfeld follies#ziegfeld girl#cat
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Barbara Stanwyck sexy movie star in 1922 before fame, Ziegfeld Follies
#barbara stanwyck#old hollywood glamour#old hollywood#ziegfeld follies#ziegfeld girl#1920s#movie star#precode
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Planet of the hat civilizations that I think nu-trek should introduce:
Mall goth planet
70's disco planet
Schmigadoon
Alien species that's just naked mole rats But Big (Yes I know Star Wars already has this, but I think Trek could do it better)
Planet populated by the Life In Hell rabbits
Ziegfeld Follies planet
Shaker commune planet
#star trek#I think Beckett Mariner deserves to go to the ziegfeld follies planet and look at pretty girls actually
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Mary Nolan
#mary nolan#ziegfeld follies#ziegfeld girl#film#film star#black and white films#flapper#roaring 20s#1920s#actress
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I knew it, guys! I knew these two were angels. 😇 I mean...you wouldn't dance around with a harp, unless you were an angel, right? 😉 This fun number marks the only occasion that Fred & Gene appeared together in an Old Hollywood film...and it is a treat! These two were just so darn cute together, weren't they? 🥰 Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly, in "Ziegfeld Follies" (1945). 💕
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#gene kelly#fred astaire#the babbitt and the bromide#ziegfeld follies#mgm#vintage fashion#musicals#vintage cutie#old hollywood leading men#old hollywood glamour#old hollywood dancers#vintage hottie#golden age of hollywood#old hollywood stars#old hollywood#classic actors#dancers#dance#tap dancers#1940s#menswear#vintage mens fashion#1940s movies
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1920's Era Ziegfeld Follies Star Tilly Losch
We need to have burlesque nite clubs in every town ❤️🧡💛
#wlw nsft#wlw smut#lez girls#sapphic yearning#lesbian goals#ziegfeld follies#ziegfeld girl#tilly losch#burlesque#fan dance
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Propaganda
Lana Turner (Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice)— A serial monogomist who was married 8 times, "Sweater Girl" Lana was a gorgeous and respected actress with a shitshow of a personal life. Just look at her. Fuck it, I'd marry her too.
Dolores Grey (It's Always Fair Weather, Kismet, Designing Woman)— Primarily a stage actress, but her performance of 'Thanks a lot but not thanks' from It's Always fair weather is seared on my brain as the pinacle of sexy musical numbers. I adore her, and wish I could've seen her in the 1987 London version of Follies.
This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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Lana Turner:
I've had a soft spot for her ever since a very ancient man in a pub told me I looked "like a young Lana Turner"
She's an icon!
Messy as fuck personal life, including her daughter killing Lana’s abusive boyfriend, but a real movie star.
Dolores Grey:
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1927 Ziegfeld Follies Act I Finale called "Stars and Stripes". On stage are the Albertina Rasch Dancers, Ziegfeld showgirls and dancers and a female band called "The Ingenues". From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
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Mary Eaton photographed by Edward Thayer Monroe, c. 1924
#mary eaton#flapper#1920s#old hollywood#silent film stars#<3#vintage#silent films#1920s fashion#Edward Thayer Monroe#ziegfeld follies
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Starting out in her native country Poland, Held toured Europe, appearing in Paris and London. Meeting empresario Flo Zeigfeld in London, she was convinced to move to NYC, where she became a huge star. Her first starring appearance was on Broadway in 1906/1907's "A Parisian Model". Held had 14 appearances on Broadway, from 1896 to 1917. This then led to her appearing in Ziegfeld's Follies.
Held and Ziegfeld never married, but were romantic partners from approx 1897 to 1913, around when Ziegfeld dumped Held for actress Lillian Lorraine.
During WWI, Held performed for French soldiers and raising money for the war effort. She visited the men as close to the front lines as she could get.
Anna Held died of cancer in 1918 at the age of 46.
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Ziegfeld Follies star Muriel Finlay
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Josephine Baker (30) in New York to promote appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies, Photo by Murray Korman, 1936.
National Portrait Galley, London.
The photo session dates from 1936 and was taken in New York to promote Bakers appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies - the first and last black star ever to do so. Josephine appeared in three segments, dancing and then singing. This photo illustrates the third segment of her appearance where she performed the song “Five a.m.” by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin and was choreographed by Georges Balanchine. The outfits were designed by Vincent Minelli, and this dress was gold in colour. Baker is depicted here with her dancers in the “Five a.m.” segment. (ref p100 Josephine Baker, by Hammond & O’Connor 1988 and p168 Jazz Cleopatra by Phyllis Rose).
#josephine baker#1936#murray korman#ziegfeld follies#national portrait galley#la baker#creole goddess#black pearl#bronze venus#new york#ziegfeld girl#ziegfeld#ziegfeld theatre#the great ziegfeld#five a.m#korman#1930s#30s
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Above: the sheet music for Shakin' the Blues Away. Photo: ebay
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 was the first Follies to feature a star performer--Eddie Cantor--and the first to have all its songs written by a single composer--Irving Berlin. Although it received tepid reviews ("His formula has never failed," wrote Time magazine. "But as nothing subscribes more unreservedly to the law of diminishing returns than [a] succession of splendors, this last superbly heralded Follies achieves only another anticlimax."), it was a hit, running for 167 performances from 1927-28.
In addition to Cantor (who appeared in nearly half the numbers), the show featured Claire Luce, Cliff Edwards (aka Ukelele Ike; 13 years later he was the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Disney's Pinocchio), Ruth Etting, and the Brox Sisters.
"Shakin' the Blues Away" was the show's big number, and Etting made her breakout appearance leading it.
Above: Shakin' the Blues Away, led by Ruth Etting. Photo: Songbook
There was also a jungle scene with live animals, in which Luce entered riding an ostrich. One night the bird left the stage in a flurry and, instead of depositing Luce in the wings, kept on walking, out the stage door and onto West 43rd St.
Below is the first page of the program for the October 17, 1927 performance. Note the sententious legend, "He who glorifies beauty glorifies truth." Would Keats have approved?
Above: the first page of the program for Oct. 17, 1927. Photo: Playbill
The 1927 Follies was the last of 21 annual shows. It was revived briefly in 1931, but didn't continue. The Follies were essentially vaudeville, only much more sumptuous. Later in 1927, Ziegfeld produced Show Boat at his own theater, and it heralded a change in Broadway musicals.
#vintage New York#1920s#Florenz Ziegfeld#Ziegfeld Follies#musical revues#Follies#Broadway musicals#vintage Broadway#Eddie Cantor#Irving Berlin#Claire Luce#Ruth Etting#Ukelele Ike#Brox Sisters
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Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.
Olive began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year. During her time as a Ziegfeld girl, she also appeared in the more risqué show The Midnight Frolic.
In 1916, she began a successful career in silent films and would appear in more than 20 features over the course of her four-year film career. That year she also married actor Jack Pickford, the younger brother of fellow silent-film star Mary Pickford.
On September 10, 1920, Olive Thomas died in Paris five days after ingesting her husband's syphilis medication, mercury dichloride, that brought on acute nephritis.
Although her death was ruled accidental, news of her hospitalization and subsequent death were the subject of speculation in the press. Olive's death is considered one of the first major Hollywood scandals.
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