Today I bring you one of the few surviving color photographs of Alfred Cheney Johnston, from the late 1930s or early 40s. I hope you will excuse the quality of the image but I think it is worth it. The technique he used is tricolor Carbro.
Between 1926 and 1927, Alfred Cheney took photos for a series of ads for Deodo, hiring several of the Ziegfeld Girls as models. In this photo, we can see Adele Smith holding the deodorant container.
Peggy Shannon, 1924 (January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941). American stage and screen actress. Signed to Paramount to replace Clara Bow as the new "It Girl." She died too young at the age of 34 due to alcoholism.
A recent discovery. Aileen Benay Farley, ca. 1935 (July 28, 1917 – April 30, 2003). American fashion model and designer. She was also a writer under the pseudonym "F. R. Lee". The original manuscript of her only book “Remedy for Romance”, was found after her death.
Today I'm going to put a photo of a performer whose name I didn't know until yesterday and who worked on the Shubert brothers' 1924 Broadway production "Innocent Eyes". Her name is Helene Dahlia.
Madge Evans, ca. 1930 (July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981). American stage, film, television and radio actress. She began her career as an advertising and fashion model.
Claudette Colbert, ca. 1927 (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996). American-born french stage and screen actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s. One of the greatest female stars of the classic Hollywood cinema.
June Caprice, 1918 (November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936). American silent film actress. Virtually all the films she worked on have been lost. (I am increasingly aware of this great cultural loss; about 3 out of 4 silent films vanished along the way).
Peaches Browning, ca. 1927 (June 23, 1910 – August 23, 1956). American actress. Her first marriage was one of the most notorious scandals in New York in the 1920s because she was 15 years old and her husband Edward "Daddy" Browning was 51.
Kay Gynt (24 October 1885 – 1956). Swedish-American actress and playwright. The Mid-Week Pictorial was a significant graphic supplement of The New York Times, renowned for its pivotal role in disseminating striking images during The Great War.
Corinne Griffith, 1919. Regarded as one of the silent film era’s most illustrious actresses, she was dubbed as ‘The Orchid Lady of the Screen,’ a title bestowed upon her for her exquisite beauty and enigmatic presence.