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Photographer Focus: Otto Dyar — Rochelle Hudson, 1934. Two more takes on Rochelle by Dyar from the same session: A lovely hand-tinted photo of Rochelle by Dyar for Photoplay, December

Louise as Thymian and the “fallen” girls at the correctional home exercise to the drumbeat and watchful (and lustful) eye of their matron (Valeska Gert) in “Diary of a Lost

Random Non-Louise Photo: Martha Vickers publicity portrait by Bert Six for Warner Brothers’ “The Big Sleep,” 1946. (Thread) Detail. After modeling and couple false starts in films, Martha made her

Random Non-Louise Photo: Donna Reed in a photo shoot with Asta the playful terrier for “Shadow of the Thin Man” (1941). (Thread) Notice: This seemingly endless thread is just an

Louise strikes a pose as a “nautch girl” Indian dancer for a series of Paramount publicity photos by Eugene Richee, 1928. (Thread) “Nautch girls” had been a unique class of

Random Non-Louise Photo: Myrna Loy wearing a special dyed batik top in an early portrait Henry Waxman, mid-1920’s. (Thread) In 1925, Myrna, then just 19, was dancing in a revue

Random Non-Louise Photo: Ida Lupino in a publicity portrait for “Ready for Love” (1934). (Thread) Two years before “Ready for Love,” Ida, just 15, arrived in Hollywood from London where

Random Non-Louise Photo: Lillian Gish in a pair of gorgeous portraits by James Abbe for the film “Broken Blossoms” (1919). These photos were from the first of Lillian’s sittings for

Random Non-Louise Photo: Detail of Edwina Booth from a provocative portrait by Clarence Sinclair Bull for “Trader Horn” (1931). (Thread) Full image and another Bull photo from 1931. After a

Louise sports an interesting cap in this curious Nero-Film studio publicity portrait for “Pandora’s Box” (1929). Note the company’s logo in the lower corner. (Thread) What’s interesting about this “Pandora’s