Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston Profile Banner
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston Profile
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston

@EverydayCheney

2,301
Followers
120
Following
542
Media
638
Statuses

(April 8, 1885 – April 17, 1971) Was a photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of actors and actresses.

New York City
Joined November 2022
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
18 days
Catherine Moylan, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
7
664
7K
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Evelyn Groves, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
5
150
2K
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
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.
Tweet media one
11
159
2K
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
11 days
Peggy Callahan, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
2
107
808
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
3 months
Helen Henderson, ca. 1925
Tweet media one
3
116
725
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Uncredited model, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
1
80
703
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Helen LeVon, ca. 1920
Tweet media one
2
87
654
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
9 months
Caryl Bergman, ca. 1929 (November 22 , 1912 – 2001). American stage actress and dancer.
Tweet media one
2
40
441
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Dorothy Graves, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
1
48
456
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Marion Courtney, ca. 1923 for George White's Scandals
Tweet media one
3
50
444
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Doris Lane, ca. 1925
Tweet media one
0
45
406
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Charlotte Reynolds, ca. 1933
Tweet media one
3
31
357
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
14 days
Mirna Darby as Margarita for the 1927 Ziegfeld Broadway musical 'Rio Rita'
Tweet media one
2
38
372
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Ruth Etting, ca. 1927. There was a 1955 biopic movie of her life called "Love me or Leave me" with Doris Day and James Cagney.
Tweet media one
6
44
313
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 days
Evan Burrows Fontaine, ca. 1921
Tweet media one
0
53
602
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Mary Lange, ca. 1930 (July 2, 1912 – April 15, 1973). American stage and screen actress and singer.
Tweet media one
1
35
271
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, ca. 1920
Tweet media one
1
45
272
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
22 days
Tallulah Bankhead, ca. 1919
Tweet media one
1
22
210
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
20 days
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.
Tweet media one
4
25
207
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Rosita from the famous tango dancer duo "Ramon and Rosita", ca. 1929
Tweet media one
4
30
193
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
8 months
Louise Brooks as a feathered showgirl in the 1924 George White's Scandals.
Tweet media one
2
20
187
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Plate #36 of the book "Enchanting Beauty" with Peggy Moran.
Tweet media one
2
23
183
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Mary Jane Nickerson, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
1
26
184
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
3 months
Marion Hamilton, ca. 1923
Tweet media one
1
24
174
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
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.
Tweet media one
2
24
174
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
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.
Tweet media one
1
16
157
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
29 days
Martha Mansfield, 1919
Tweet media one
1
15
159
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Lee Russell, ca. 1927
Tweet media one
0
19
156
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
1 month
Dorothy Flood, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
0
22
155
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
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.
Tweet media one
6
8
147
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
The dancer with stunning eyes is Ruby Keeler in 1929
Tweet media one
1
20
151
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Leonora Hughes, 1919 (March 31, 1897 – February 1978). American dancer and actress. One of the partners of dancer Maurice Mouvet.
Tweet media one
0
18
138
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
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.
Tweet media one
1
14
136
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Theo Phane, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
1
15
138
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
17 days
Muriel FInley, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
1
10
136
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Billie Dove, ca. 1924
Tweet media one
1
17
128
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
The Fairbanks Twins, 1919
Tweet media one
0
17
130
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
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.
Tweet media one
5
16
120
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Let's dance 'the shimmy' with the fabulous Gilda Gray.
Tweet media one
0
12
124
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Vera Marshe (or Marsh), ca. 1923 (July 15, 1905 – March 25, 1984). American stage and screen actress.
Tweet media one
0
20
122
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Geneva Durka and Grace Robinson for the 1924 Greenwich Village Follies.
Tweet media one
0
15
116
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
1 month
Mary Alice Rice, ca. 1931
Tweet media one
0
13
115
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
10 months
Anette Downs, ca. 1925 for a beauty company ad.
Tweet media one
0
9
113
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Agatha Debussy, ca. 1920. From my collection.
Tweet media one
1
10
115
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Mollie King, 1918 (April 16, 1895 – December 28, 1981). American stage and screen actress.
Tweet media one
0
12
110
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Justine Johnstone, ca. 1920
Tweet media one
0
14
111
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Kathleen Martin as "The Harvest Maid" in 1920.
Tweet media one
0
12
110
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Hazel Forbes, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
0
15
107
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Myrna Darby, ca. 1927 (April 10, 1908 - September 26, 1929). Stage and screen actress. She died too young.
Tweet media one
1
14
103
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Naomi Johnson and Kay English, ca. 1928
Tweet media one
2
13
99
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
1 year
Marie McDonald, ca. 1940 (July 6, 1923 – October 21, 1965). American actress, singer and pin-up. She was known as "The Body" for her perfect figure.
Tweet media one
5
14
97
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
Helen Hudson, ca. 1924
Tweet media one
0
10
99
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
The Scott Sisters, ca. 1925. Performers specialized in Irish dance.
Tweet media one
2
14
95
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
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).
Tweet media one
2
15
97
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Mary Pickford, 1921
Tweet media one
0
11
93
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
8 months
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.
Tweet media one
2
8
91
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Georgia Carroll, ca. 1938 (November 18, 1919 – January 14, 2011). American singer, fashion model and actress.
Tweet media one
1
10
89
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
9 days
Dorothy Dickson, ca. 1919
Tweet media one
0
9
101
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
6 months
Vera Milton, ca. 1931
Tweet media one
0
11
91
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
The talented and beautiful Russian-American dancer and actress Tamara Geva, ca. 1927
Tweet media one
1
6
88
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
2 months
Mildred Harris, ca. 1918
Tweet media one
0
12
88
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
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.
Tweet media one
0
8
87
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
17 days
Hazel Forbes dressed as an Indian for the 1928 Ziegfeld Broadway musical 'Whoopee!'
Tweet media one
1
7
91
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
5 months
Dorothy Knapp, ca. 1927
Tweet media one
0
12
86
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
4 months
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.
Tweet media one
0
8
85
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
7 months
Gertrude Dahl, ca. 1930
Tweet media one
2
14
82
@EverydayCheney
Everyday Alfred Cheney Johnston
1 month
Marion Davies, ca. 1919
Tweet media one
0
8
84