Yesterday, I re-posted a 2010 entry of mine with Clara Bow in a host of Halloween-themed promotional pictures. Recently I found another from the set, and it inadvertently started off a lengthy search for Halloween props reused repeatedly in pictures over the years: That mask and the pumpkins from the set I posted yesterday were…
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Halloween Cheesecake: Clara Bow and Esther Ralston
That’s Clara Bow in a cute little checkered short-all outfit, hanging out with some depressed ghosts. Over the years I have collected a bunch of Halloween-themed pictures, yet at some point lost a specific set I’d collected of vintage starlets in Halloween cheesecake pics, often using the same props from one year to the next,…
Das Unheimliche Buch (1914)
Das Unheimliche Buch, 1914. Binding by Karl Ebert, edited by Felix Schloemp. Available on archive.org here.
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson and friend.
The Mummy (1932)
Boris Karloff as The Mummy
Halloween Cheesecake: Elaine Stewart
Starlet Elaine Stewart, most famous for her role as a, well, starlet, in The Bad and the Beautiful.
Dance of the Hoo-Hoo
“Dance of the Hoo-Hoo” by Emma Y. Suckert, published in 1898. This ragtime number has been recently recorded. Suckert’s only other known work, “Pickaninny Shuffle” from 1896, is a cakewalk dance. Picture shamelessly stolen from Chateau Thombeau.
Madam Satan (1930)
A little Madam Satan photo gallery for this delightful October morning. Above is the fashion sketch by Adrian for Madam Satan’s deadly ball gown.
Tallu and Jeff
Tallulah Bankhead, Jeffrey Hunter and strong sexual tension (pictured) at a Hollywood Halloween party circa 1958. Courtesy MJ at Infomaniac.
Mae West, 1934
And just imagine, only a mere 34 years later, she would star in the timeless romance Sextette.