Favorite Golden Era Couples

[Tomasso]

Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery

Gloria Swanson’s Not So Hollywood Wedding Night

 

[HadleyH]

Great pictures everybody! :eusa_clap ... Walt Disney bike is fun!




Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene, the director who discovered Frau Dietrich for "The Blue Angel" a partnership that lead them to Hollywood and six more films.

 

[rue]

Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery

Gloria Swanson’s Not So Hollywood Wedding Night

wow.....

 

[Tomasso]

Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland

 

[Connery]

Man Ray and Lee Miller

At the Fairgrounds, 1930

Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst, Lee Miller and Man Ray, 1931

At the Opening of Man Ray, Inventor, Painter, Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1975;

 

[Connery]

Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene, the director who discovered Frau Dietrich for "The Blue Angel" a partnership that lead them to Hollywood and six more films.

This is a great thread!

Thanks for posting Von Sternberg and Dietrich. It has been said that for Von Sternberg "light and shade were the only essential properties of movie art. Story and script had no value at all." His movies with Dietrich were as important to their relationship as their off screen relationship was itself and were central to each other.

I thought it would be fitting to post a few pictures from those films as they has been the subject of discussion intermingled with their relationship.

Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlett Empress (above, 1934) and The Devil is a Woman (below, 1935)

The Blue Angel (1930)

Dietrich in Blonde Venus (above, 1931) and Morroco (below, 1930) with Gary Cooper

Dietrich in Dishonored (above, 1931) and The Scarlet Empress (below, 1934)

The Devil is a Woman(1935)

This is a nice discussion about them as is this

 

[rue]

Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll

 

[C-dot]

Director Nicholas Ray and Gloria Grahame.

These two went through a bitter and acrimonious divorce, and years later, Gloria married her ex-husband's 21 year old son from a previous marriage!

 

[Chas]

WT???????? Come on, that can't be real...

Yep, it's for real. Louis sent this as a gag postcard to some of his friends. He was an enthusiastic user of "Swiss Kriss", a herbal laxative. He talked about it all the time, and recommended it to folks pretty often.

 

[Connery]

Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque

They look like they had fun...lol

 

[HadleyH]

Nice photos Connery! Thanks!

Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Picasso my idols of the past! (not that anybody cares, it's ok)

Pablo being the passionate man that he was, had several women in his life, another of his women I also love is Françoise Gilot.

Francoise with the white bikini

 

[HadleyH]

Now that we have started with Pablo Picasso.... it's so hard to pin them all down in one thread ....... all his women..... but.... here is another one Dora Maars the muse of French surrealists! When he left her, as it was expected from him, she went nuts [huh]

EDIT to add the portrait that he painted of her, of Dora .... he called it "Weeping Woman" 1937 [huh]

 

[Connery]

I am glad you like it.

Fernande de Olivier, Pablo Picasso

Fernande Olivier, Pablo Picasso and Ramon Reventós in 1906.

 

[HadleyH]

Yes! Fernande, his first love in Paris!


Marie Therese , French mistress and model of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935, and the mother of his daughter Maya. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and still living with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It ended when Picasso moved on to his next mistress, artist Dora Maar.
In 1977, four years after Picasso's death, Marie-Thérèse committed suicide by hanging herself in the garage at Juan-les-Pins, South of France.

Picasso's portrait of sweet Marie Therese so different from the Dora Maar's portrait...I just love this portrait!

 

[Connery]

Anita Page Nacio Herb Brown

 

[Tomasso]

Fredric March and wife Florence

 

[HadleyH]

^^^
Nice pictures of F. March! Thank you!!!



" Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, a couple on screen and off.......... one of Hollywood's greatest cover-ups... rumor had it that they hated each other off-screen but the truth was that they were madly in love............. interference by studio boss Louis B. Mayer triggered a series of tragic events that caused them to self-destruct their film careers, health and ultimately their lives."


sweet cake of luv!

hush hushhhhhh!

 

[Connery]

Adolphe Menjou Verree Teasdale

Newlyweds 1934

Arrive in New York on the SS Queen Mary after a European vacation. September, 1936

The impeccably dressed Verree Teasdale and Adolphe Menjou arrive in New York for a vacation. August, 1939

Verree Teasdale visits Ralph Meeker, Jane Russell and husband Adolphe Menjou on the set of The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown. Not Jane's best photo..lol

 

[Tomasso]

Not Jane's best photo..lol

I'll say! :eusa_doh:

 

[HadleyH]

This was the rarest of the rare ....

In 1925,Samuel Goldwyn film producer, married actress Frances Howard to whom he remained married for the rest of his life, until 1974 when he died at the ripe age of 94.