Hazel, Lady Lavery (1880–1935) was a socialite, actress and painter. She was the second wife of portrait artist Sir John Lavery.
Hazel Lavery by E.O. Hoppé gelatin silver print, 1916 © 2019 E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection / Curatorial Assistance Inc. (NPG) via
Hazel Lavery by E.O. Hoppé gelatin silver print, 1916 © 2019 E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection / Curatorial Assistance Inc. NPG via
Lady Lavery dressed as Flora (mythology) in Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera painting, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 via
Theda Bara, 1910s via
The Wolf Woman is a 1916 silent era drama motion picture starring Louise Glaum. Leila Aradella (played by Glaum), is a young and egotistical woman, who finds pleasure from preying on weak men with her charm and beauty.
After seeing the film, it was reported that New York critics unanimously pronounced Glaum as “the greatest vampire woman of all time.”
Another reviewer noted that Glaum had become famous for her “vampire” characterizations and billed The Wolf Woman as the “Greatest Vampire picture of all”.
Louise Glaum in The Wolf Woman, 1916 via
Les Vampires is a 1915–16 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and Marcel Lévesque.
The main characters are a journalist and his friend who become involved in trying to uncover and stop a bizarre underground Apache gang, known as The Vampires (who are not the mythological beings their name suggests).
Musidora appears as cabaret singer Irma Vep (an anagram of “vampire”), who has a leading role in The Vampires crimes.
Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot of actress Musidora in the Louis Feuillade-directed film series Les Vampires, 1915 via
Screenshot from the film Les Vampires by Louis Feuillade, 1915 via
Les Vampires, 1915 via
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 – 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1911 via
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1911 via
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Bois de Boulogne, 1911 © Ministère de la Culture – France / AAJHL via
Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Alfred Stieglitz, Two Towers, New York City, 1911 via
Alfred Stieglitz, Old and New New York, 1910 via
Alfred Stieglitz City of ambition, 1910 via
Alfred Stieglitz, The Flat-Iron, 1903 via
Palaces Loredan & Farsetti, Venice, Italy, 1915 via
Yvonne Arnaud (1890 – 1958) was a French pianist, singer and actress.
After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Arnaud acted in musical comedies.
until 1911, she performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe and the US. In 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained an engagement at London’s Adelphi Theatre as understudy to Elsie Spain in the role of Princess Mathilde in The Quaker Girl, first going on stage in that role on 7 August 1911. She next played the leading role of Suzanne in the musical The Girl in the Taxi (1912), earning popularity with her vivacity and charming French accent.
Around 1920 she switched to non-musical comedy and drama and was one of the players in the second of the Aldwych farces, A Cuckoo in the Nest, a hit in 1925.
She also had dramatic roles and made films in the 1930s and 40s, and continued to act into the 1950s.
She occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career.
Yvonne Arnaud by Bassano, whole-plate glass negative, November 1912
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Yvonne Arnaud by Bassano, whole-plate glass negative, November 1912
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Auguste Rodin & Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, Kate Simpson, 1910-1913 via
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