Today’s Art Deco Hollywood style icon is the lovely Miss Myrna Loy. It was her 1934 role as Nora Charles that catapulted her to a much deserved stardom, though she had worked steadily in small silent parts earlier in her career as well .
Print Poster of Myrna Loy + William Powell in After The Thin Man, from Silver Screen.
She was a phenomenal actress, comedienne and one of the great beauties of all time.
Today’s Art Deco Hollywood Inspiration: a woman whose haircut inspired ladies everywhere to follow suit (the proto-“Rachel”?), a woman whose talent absolutely radiates off the screen, a silent film star, a stunning beauty and by all accounts one seriously fascinating lady: Louise Brooks. She has an incredible face that can look at times cute as …
The pure embodiment of 1930s Hollywood style, Claudette Colbert is perhaps now remembered best for her Academy Award-winning role in 1934’s It Happened One Night. She was a prolific and talented actress in both screwball comedies like that Capra classic, and dramas such as Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra. Born Lily Emilie Chauchoin in France, her family …
Dolores Del Río was a silent screen star in the 1920s, a luminous icon of 1930s Hollywood, and then became one of Mexican film’s greatest stars. Born María de los Dolores Asúnsolo López-Negrete in 1904, she was one of the first and most beloved Latin American crossover stars in Hollywood. She had a torrid love affair …
Mary Astor, born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in 1906, was discovered at age 14 and became one of the true beauties of the silent era. Ultimately she also became one of the few silent stars who successfully made the transition to talkies. Despite the initial assessment that her voice was “too deep” for sound, she went …
1930s Hollywood | Myrna Loy
Today’s Art Deco Hollywood style icon is the lovely Miss Myrna Loy. It was her 1934 role as Nora Charles that catapulted her to a much deserved stardom, though she had worked steadily in small silent parts earlier in her career as well .
Print Poster of Myrna Loy + William Powell in After The Thin Man, from Silver Screen.
She was a phenomenal actress, comedienne and one of the great beauties of all time.
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