#stage actress

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Stage actress Maude Adams, the LGBTQ icon who (allegedly) was the inspiration for Peter Pan. Though she was never publicly “out”, she never married, and had many close female friendships throughout her life. Including Ethel Barrymore (Yes from the illustrious Barrymore family—the most recent being Drew).

Maude was very popular with female audiences, and due to her disinterest in men, her chastity helped her to maintain a pristine reputation throughout her life. She was often rumored to be engaged to men as an effective “smokescreen” to shield her from rumors of lesbianism. None of these relationships were anything more than just that—rumors.

After playing Peter Pan on stage, Maude reached monumental levels of stardom for the time, which made having a private life very challenging. She lived with her “secretary” until she died, and both were buried on the same plot.

Maude was a serious actress, who claimed she would never marry due to her dedication to her craft. This was a common excuse for closeted gays in the Victorian era. Her fearlessness, and paradoxically childlike innocence are inspiring to me. She lived a colorful life, and is definitely worth looking into.

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[hauntedbystorytelling]

Stage actress Ione Bright by Studio of Luther S. White (White Studio), 1912. The J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington

[professorambrius]

In Memory of Glynis Johns

On January 4th, Actress Glynis Johns passed away. A very talented actress, Glynis appeared on both stage and screen. 0On Broadway, she was the first to sing ''Send in the Clowns

On both the film and TV screens she will be best remembered for 2 special roles.

Winifred Banks, ''Mary Poppins".

Lady Penelope Peasoup, ''Batman the Series''.

Glynis also lent her voice to animation.

Miss Grimwood, ''Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School''.

Rest In Peace, Glynis. You helped make our childhoods great.

[mediocrewriters]

We take our final bow, soak up the applause, and stand under the stage lights one last time, and with that, that show is over. We bump out and clear the space and say goodbye to the cast and crew who we won't see as often anymore, not yet fully realising the weight of what we've done until we get home. People who we saw at least once a week, and then every day for a whole week, now barely in our lives until whatever show we both do next.

You can try to bargain with time, gaslight yourself into believing it's not over, but there's no changing that it'll never happen again. Not like that.

So you sit with it, you realise you finally have a chance to breathe after all the chaos. Yet it feels wrong, everything hurts and you feel empty. A shark that has stopped swimming. It's like you've died and there's nothing left for you.

You don't know what will happen to you if you don't find a new way to keep moving before the cast party, but you know you have to for everyone you worked alongside to bring art to life.

[eyesfullofmoon]

Sarah Bernhardt photographed by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (aka "Nadar") in Paris, c. 1860s.

[tina-aumont]

🌿Sweet María II pictured in a park in Madrid by J. Torremocha. At that time she was working in a stage production called "Quijotella"🌿 Scans from 8th January 1972 Semana magazine.

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Patricia Neal, born Patsy Louise Neal, in Packard, Kentucky, was an American actress of stage and screen. Photo: During the filming of The Fountainhead (1949)

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american stage and screen actress Marie Doro  c.1902

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Silent Film Actress, Maude Fealy, from my sketchbook

[enchantresssiren]

𝐌𝐲𝐫𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐲, 1930s

American, stage and film actress

(1905 - 1993)

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jane marnac 8/2/1892 - 2/12/1976

jane marnac - je veux (de l'opérette "azor")

1932

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Betzy Holter as Hedvig in Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Nationaltheatret, 1928.

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Freeman by Stieglitz (hands)

Alfred Stieglitz :: Helen Freeman [hands], 1921. Palladium print. Alfred Stieglitz Collection · NGA

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Photo of Agnes O'Laughlin

stage actress

and Nell Brinkley drawings

1932

[radianttruthsii]

Anna Held (1872 – 1918)