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1930s vintage and original photograph of a vaudeville ballet performer executing a beautiful arabesque pose shot by Bloom, Chicago. Bloom was a 1930s-era photographer of radio, music and vaudeville talents who was based in the Windy City. The dramatic lighting combined with the motion blur of her gown makes this a fantastic old piece of theater memorabilia.

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Vintage & original, large format, Broadway theatre production still photographed by White Studios in 1920. White Studios, helmed by photographer George W. Lucas, was New York City's foremost theatre photography studio in the early 20th century. The studio specialized in production stills such as this one, focusing on sweeping, head-on shots of productions usually taken during dress rehearsal.

This production still is from the musical-comedy Kissing Time (1920) and features a dancer in a daring dip with her dapper dance partner while Jazz Age showgirls strike a pose in a semi-circle around them. The group are posed on a luscious and ornate stage set by D. Frank Dodge and William Castle. Truly a wonderful piece of Broadway theatre memorabilia perfect for fans & collectors of The Great White Way!

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1935 vintage and original silver gelatin photograph of actress Julie Haydon. A wonderful art deco portrait of the star in classic Hollywood Regency glamour style. Haydon never reached her full potential on screen and instead did her best work on the stage.

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c. 1927 studio portrait photograph that has been masterfully composed and hand printed by M-G-M photographer Ruth Harriet Louise. The first, and at the time only, female photographer active in Hollywood, Louise ran M-G-M's portrait studio from 1925-1930. Pictured is silent film actress Gertrude Olmstead in sublime Roaring Twenties style. A vampy and stylish portrait, Louise has used moody lighting to add drama to Olmstead's vixenish flapper persona which is highlighted by her short, bobbed hair, vampy makeup, and exotic, feather trimmed robe. A sexy Art Deco glamour view that is everything we love about Hollywood's opulent silent era!

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c. early 1930s vintage & original, large format, silver gelatin photograph that has been hand printed by photographer Elmer Fryer and features actress Natalie Moorhead. The sharply dressed platinum blonde is poised and glamorous in this stunning Art Deco / Jazz Age fashion portrait. Moorhead promotes a high glamour Hollywood look with a gorgeous floor length dress cinched around the waist and butt with a scarf that ties into a bow in the front. Abstract floral patterns adorn the bottom of the dress and match the pattern of the light house coat that goes over the dress. Moorhead is posed in an opulent Art Deco setting complete with a large mirror that reflects Moorhead's beauty back to the viewer as well as a column with female figure statue atop. An exceptional example of Hollywood's decadent glamour style of the era. Moorhead's sartorial persona was designed/styled by Peggy Hamilton with clothing from Beevan. An exquisitely composed portrait from Fryer with great styling by Hamilton that is worn effortlessly by Moorhead. A Golden Age of Hollywood treasure to be sure!

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Vintage & original 1932 RKO studio portrait photograph of Hollywood actress Dorothy Wilson. A profile art deco glamour view of the ingénue actress who was a script girl before gaining her first film role in RKO Radio Pictures' romantic drama "The Age of Consent."

This picture is by iconic Hollywood photographer Ernest A. Bachrach, whose long career gave us some of the most enduring movie star glamour images from the Golden Age of Hollywood.  

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Vintage nude "Figure Study" art magazine from the 1930s, titled "Girl Parade" number four and featuring pages of black and white photographs and art models in a variety of art deco poses and Hollywood Regency settings. One of many of the short lived publications flying in the face of censorship, and the banning of these essentially girl watcher magazines that were sold under bookstore counters discreetly during the era. This title in particular acted as a secondary publisher of photographs by a variety of glamour photographers from the US and Europe, including stars of stage and screen identified by the eye of the Sleuth including one who appears to be a young Barbara Stanwyck.   Produced by Sun Publications of Chicago, IL.  

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c. late 1920s issue of Artists and Models Quarterly, a spicy pulp publication from the same people who brought us Pep Stories. The cover features a wonderfully risqué Art Deco design with a barely clothed model striking an artistic pose. The interior is packed full of page after page of fine art nude portraiture from the era's top glamour erotica photographers. Some highlights include: a portrait of an unnamed model who Celebrity Sleuth has identified as none other than the future Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, as well as photography by de Mirjian, de Barron, Henderson, Carsey, and more!

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Vintage and original pin-up bad girl photograph of Beverly Michaels for the low budget dramatic film noir, "Wicked Woman" (1953). Michaels is a sultry femme fatale in this moody and dramatic old Hollywood view.

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c. 1950s magazine called the Cocktail Studier, a Danish publication. An early all color magazine with gorgeous, nude, pin-up photos on every page with a unique peephole cut-out cover.

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Clara Bow vint Large Ross Verlag Photo Postcard

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Vivien Leigh vint as Cleopoatra Dutch Photo Postcard

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1930s photograph of Anna May Wong, the first Asian American superstar. A Paramount Pictures' publicity still, exotic Anna is dazzling in her elaborate showgirl costume and giant headdress, making this a true Golden Age of Hollywood treasure.

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Lil Dagover vint smoking cigarette Ross Luxus Photo Postcard

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Anna May Wong vint geman Photo Postcard

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Paramount Pictures publicity photograph of Hollywood's original "It" girl Clara Bow. Photographed by Eugene Robert Richee, Bow is seen here as a bombshell Jazz Age aviatrix reaching for the sky against a painted backdrop of WWI biplanes soaring amongst the clouds. This gorgeous view of Bow was used to promote her film Wings (1927), which would go on to win Best Picture at the first ever Academy Awards in 1929. It also became the standard against which future aviation films were measured due to its realistic air-combat sequences.

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1930s photograph of RKO Radio Pictures player Betty Furness. A picture of sunny California pin-up perfection, Furness is posed in a Swim Easy swimsuit and "KAKS" sandals in this gorgeous poolside portrait. An early view of the actress from the early years of her career.