Sigh.

Splendid!  I saw this posted elsewhere with no identifying info, and guessed it was late-’20s/early-’30s.  Indeed. 

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“The Dance Track” Helene Shelda, a young Russian dancer who was inspired by the Hindus in British India, reaped great success in Paris, 1931. 

The Memory of the Netherlands

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Happy birthday to an underappreciated director, Gregory La Cava (10 March 1892– 1 March 1952), seen above with Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn on the set of the wonderful Stage Door (1938).

If he were responsible for nothing more than the delicious and effervescent My Man Godfrey (1936), it would be enough to seal his renown for me.  But he also directed everything from the bizarre teen sex melodrama The Age of Consent (1932) to the Fannie Hurst potboiler Symphony of Six Million (1932) to the surreal Depression-era political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House (1933) to the ultimate greenhorn-to-star journey of Stage Door.

Even cooler, he started out his career in animation, working on silent cartoons of The Katzenjammer Kids!

Garbo, photographed by the great George Hurrell, in the film “Romance” (1930), in a photo grabbed from the Self-Styled Siren’s current banner. 

I feel the costume designer gets as much, if not more, of the credit for the magnificence of this shot.  And since that costume designer was Adrian, I challenge anyone to disagree with me.

Coop (with ?), looking especially dapper.

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Jazz Bowl, Viktor Schreckengost (c. 1931). Made for Cowan Pottery Studio (1913-1931) Rocky River, Ohio. © 2009 The Art Institute of Chicago.

Another angle:

See also his “Cocktails and Cigarettes Bowl” (also 1931), in the Cleveland Museum of Art:

Cartoonists celebrate the end of Prohibition by The Devil Puppet on Flickr.

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A group of well-heeled and well-oiled cartoonists gather in NYC in 1933 (with some “vintage liquor” and a camera man) to celebrate the repeal of the 18th amendment. From left to right: Otto Soglow, Rube Goldberg, Russ Westover, Ad Carter, Billy DeBeck, H.H. Knerr, Robert Ripley, Jack Lait, George McManus, Milt Gross and Cliff Sterrett. Wow. Most cartoonist get-togethers I’ve been to were lucky to scrape up a few six-packs of the cheap stuff.

WOW.  That is even more wacked out in color than it was in black and white… 

Katharine Hepburn, “Christopher Strong”, 1933.

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I LOVE photos of what it actually looked like on set in the classic Hollywood days: Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy, in Whipsaw, 1935. 

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Considered one of the best Austrian cars ever built, the 1932 Austro Daimler “Bergmeister” Sport Cabriolet, from the private collection of Dr. Wolfgang Porsche.

What a doozy! 

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1932 Rollston Duesenberg Model J Torpedo Berline  (recently sold for $726,000)

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Barbara Kent - New Years 1930s

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Walt Disney Studios’ very first Christmas card - 1930. 

Artist:  Floyd Gottfredson

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why stars don’t dress like this?  Rather than like this?  And like this?  And like this??  (I could go ON.) 

I’m just sayin’. 

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Evening dress, ca 1934

What a great photo!  Lombard was married to William Powell at the time, and Gable to his 2nd wife, Maria.  It would be seven years before the two were wed. 

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Carole Lombard and Clark Gable on a lunch break during the filming of No Man of Her Own (1932)