Vintage Beauties 1909

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Piccadilly Circus 1963

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Romy Schneider

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Romy Schneider

Fixing Romy Schneider´s wax figure

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Romy Schneider (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a film actress who achieved success in Germany and France. She started her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. 

From 1955 to 1957 she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy. In 1958 she met Alain Delon and they became engaged; Schneider moved to France where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Her engagement to Delon ended in 1963 and Schneider subsequently married twice. 

The son from her first marriage died in an accident in 1981 when he was 14. In May 1982, aged 43, Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment.

Adrienne Ames

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Adrienne Ames

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Adrienne Ames

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Adrienne Ames (August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress.

Margaret Livingston

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George O'Brien & Margaret Livingston in Sunrise 1927

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George O'Brien (April 19, 1899 – September 4, 1985) was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

Margaret Livingston

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Margaret Livingston

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Margaret Livingston (November 25, 1895 – December 13, 1985) was an American film actress, most notable for her work during the silent film era. She was sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingston or Margaret Livingstone. On screen she resembled actress Mae Busch.

Vintage Beauties

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Lon Chaney and lovely dancers by Nicholas Haz c.1920

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Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930), born Leonidas Frank Chaney, was an American actor during the age of silent films. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney is known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces."

Twiggy

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