Paris In The Roaring Twenties

[triple-d]

thank you triple-d!

 

[Cornshucker77]

Talking about Ernest Hemingway during his life in Paris in the 1920s.....

Hemingway, wounded by a falling skylight, Paris in 1928





that's how it turned out to look forever in his head

Ouch that is a nasty cut.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

A book that has been out for sometime, but worth a look, Kiki's Paris.
https://www.amazon.com/Kikis-Paris-...8&qid=1520860572&sr=1-2&keywords=kiki's+paris

 

[Fading Fast]

Yes, I agree. In their different ways, both Hem and Scott were attractive men...Zelda was always beautiful in her younger years... but their life was so crazy and so full to the top so to speak (like many artists and writers in the 1920s) that something's gotta give and her sanity gave ...she had a great life while the good times lasted thou......

And her death, My God! Scott himself could have not written a more tragic book.....

"When Scott died in 1940, Zelda had been living for some years in Highland, a sanitarium in Asheville, North Carolina. It boasted forward-thinking treatment along with beautiful grounds and a view of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. It was there in 1948 that she was sedated as she went to bed in preparation for an early morning shock treatment. While she was allowed to leave the grounds during the day, her room on the fifth floor was locked at night.

A disgruntled employee started a fire in the hospital kitchen, the fire department didn't arrive until it was too late for them to stop the blaze that rushed to the upper floors through a dumbwaiter. All that was found of Zelda under her charred remains was a single slipper."


Highland hospital fire, Asheville, North Carolina, 1948

Meanwhile he was out in Hollywood writing hack screenplays and killing himself with that work (to pay for her care) and drink (because he drank too much). They (as your other pictures show) were shooting stars - there, beautiful and, then, gone.

 

[Fading Fast]

American Louise Brooks bob .... in Paris or Germany or wherever she was in the 1920s..... very gorgeous all the same, yes? face gorgeous too.

Hadley, have you read this ⇩ historical fiction novel based on Brooks' just-before-becoming-a-star years?



Not an incredible book, but I enjoyed it as decent period fiction based on real life events.

Here's the Amazon descriptions:

Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.

For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.

Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.​

 

[HadleyH1]

A book that has been out for sometime, but worth a look, Kiki's Paris.
https://www.amazon.com/Kikis-Paris-Artists-Lovers-1900-1930/dp/0810912104/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520860572&sr=1-2&keywords=kiki's+paris

Absinthe_1900! that is one of my favorite books! it has the best photos and it has everything that went on then and there, it is a must for all who like those years! that book is in a very small mahogany bookcase ....really small....in my bedroom. I need to be close to it ...that's how much I like it. LOL! funny I know!

 

[HadleyH1]

Hadley, have you read this ⇩ historical fiction novel based on Brooks' just-before-becoming-a-star years?

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Not an incredible book, but I enjoyed it as decent period fiction based on real life events.

Here's the Amazon descriptions:

Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.

For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.

Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.​

I haven't read it yet, FF, thank you for letting me know!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[triple-d]

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ Which is exactly why the runway's landing lights were ablaze for Chanel's clean and elegant lines. A perfect "man, moment, machine" event (Coco, too much fussy fashion and WWI opening everything up for change, couture).


Coco Chanel 1928

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Absinthe_1900! that is one of my favorite books! it has the best photos and it has everything that went on then and there, it is a must for all who like those years! that book is in a very small mahogany bookcase ....really small....in my bedroom. I need to be close to it ...that's how much I like it. LOL! funny I know!

A very longtime favorite book...I got my copy waay back in 1991.
I keep my copy in lower part of my 30s French Deco coffee table, along with an old Brassai book, and a few absinthe books.
I still make a glass of absinthe, and enjoy looking through my favorites after all these years.

 

[HadleyH1]

A very longtime favorite book...I got my copy waay back in 1991.
I keep my copy in lower part of my 30s French Deco coffee table, along with an old Brassai book, and a few absinthe books.
I still make a glass of absinthe, and enjoy looking through my favorites after all these years.

I have a Brassai book too! let me go grab it from my bookcase.................


ok "Brassai the Secret Years" it's called, it has the most amazing photos of Paris in the early 1930s!


I love that book too!

 

[HadleyH1]

This is a photo from Brassai...it says it's late 20s early 30s Paris

 

[HadleyH1]

Sylvia Beach's bookstore Shakespeare and Company was the place that all american writers in Paris in the 1920s had to visit sooner or later ....

Ernest Hemingway early 20s trying to be a good boy....for the photo only

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I have a Brassai book too! let me go grab it from my bookcase.................


ok "Brassai the Secret Years" it's called, it has the most amazing photos of Paris in the early 1930s!


I love that book too!

I have an old copy of Brassai's "Secret Paris of the 30s" with it's awful late 1970s cover, and I have a copy of the "Secret Years" as well.

They are really great books for getting lost in the images.

A fascinating time and place.

 

[HadleyH1]

I think this hasn't been posted before.

From left, the writers James Joyce, Ezra Pound, John Quinn, and Ford Madox Ford, 1923,Paris.

 

[HadleyH1]

Artist Henri Matisse and his model – 1928

 

[HadleyH1]

Claude Monet in his studio in Giverny working on “Water Lilies “, near Paris 1920

 

[Stanley Doble]

If you are interested in the expat literary scene in Paris in the twenties you should get Morley Callaghan's That Summer In Paris. He was there, he knew Hemingway Fitzgerald and the others and he has his own slant on things. He was a fine writer himself and was well thought of by some leading critics in the 30s although pretty much forgotten now.

 

[HadleyH1]

If you are interested in the expat literary scene in Paris in the twenties you should get Morley Callaghan's That Summer In Paris. He was there, he knew Hemingway Fitzgerald and the others and he has his own slant on things. He was a fine writer himself and was well thought of by some leading critics in the 30s although pretty much forgotten now.

That was one of the very first books on the topic that I acquired... long ago.....

sadly I believe there is nothing more new that I don't know or haven't read ....but

here and there.....I keep looking.....you know