Silent Divas and scandals
Apr. 18th, 2007 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieNow, if you’ve friended me after my drama craze started, you probably don’t know that one of my other interests is silent movies. I guess I like my melodrama where I can find it. And this interest just resurfaced because I have just found lovely used copy of Wallace Reid: The Life And Death of a Hollywood Idol by E.J. Fleming (I had an entry on Wallace reid here (here is a webpage that goes into more detail here))
I also found Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty by Michelle Vogel. Whoa, silent movie stars seemed to drop like flies.
So in honor of that, some silent movie starlets pics.
Famous silent actress Theda Bara as Cleopatra from the 1917 lost film. Yay for sex symbols :)
And here is Olive Thomas, a silent actress who was first married at 13 (!!) then eventually later married Mary Pickford’s brother who was an alcoholic, a drug addict and someone who had syphilis. She became an alchoholic herself and died an untimely death at the age of 26 by accidentally drinking what she thought was water but was her husband’s s medicine for syphilis (which he happily transmitted to her). Yeah.
And here is Mary Miles Minter, one of the earliest Anne’s in ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Her career was effectively over when her lover, film director William Desmond Taylor was found murdered and scandal resulted that was the end for her good girl image. (This was the lady that confessed to the murder).
Norma Talmadge, one of the biggest stars of the silent era:
I also found Olive Thomas: The Life and Death of a Silent Film Beauty by Michelle Vogel. Whoa, silent movie stars seemed to drop like flies.
So in honor of that, some silent movie starlets pics.
Famous silent actress Theda Bara as Cleopatra from the 1917 lost film. Yay for sex symbols :)
And here is Olive Thomas, a silent actress who was first married at 13 (!!) then eventually later married Mary Pickford’s brother who was an alcoholic, a drug addict and someone who had syphilis. She became an alchoholic herself and died an untimely death at the age of 26 by accidentally drinking what she thought was water but was her husband’s s medicine for syphilis (which he happily transmitted to her). Yeah.
And here is Mary Miles Minter, one of the earliest Anne’s in ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Her career was effectively over when her lover, film director William Desmond Taylor was found murdered and scandal resulted that was the end for her good girl image. (This was the lady that confessed to the murder).
Norma Talmadge, one of the biggest stars of the silent era:
