Ziegfeld Follies

avanishedtime:

Billie Burke

(via leonardvole)

turnofthecentury:

Anna Held with friend - Morrison - c. 1896

thefoxgloves:

Olive Thomas

C. 1910s

(Source: orphansofthestorm, via silentpickford)

Madge Bellamy  (c. 1920s)

Photo: Alfred Cheney Johnston   (Via Dr. Macro’s)

Gladys Loftus as “Sunlight” for “The Midnight Frolic” - 1925

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston   (Via Birth-Death Tokyo Blog Spot)

Emily Drange as “Lantern Light” for “The Midnight Frolic” - (1925)

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston     (Via Birth-Death Tokyo Blog Spot)

Babe Marlowe as “Candlight” for The Midnight Frolics - (1925)

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston  (Via Birth-Death Tokyo Blog Spot)

Bernice Ackerman

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston   (Via Dr. Macro’s)

Olive Brady

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston

Ada May Weeks performed in “Rio Rita” in 1927 and 1928.

Photo:  Alfred Cheney Johnston

thetranscendentalmodernist:

Kathlene (aka Kathlyn, Kathleen) Martyn - by ACJ

Rose Dolores

She was the most famous Ziegfeld Girl, the apotheosis of the style of patrician, self-possessed, beautiful woman around whom the spectacle of the Broadway revue radiated. Featured in the Follies and Frolics from 1917-1920, her amble cross the stage in a Peacock costume designed by Pachaud of Paris in the 1919 Midnight Frolic is cited by many as the most spectacular single visual effect in any Ziegfeld production.