TONS of 1930s Fashion Photos

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's a late '30s studio publicity photo of some lucky actor surrounded by a bunch of beauties, including Marsha Hunt (bottom center, in profile) and Lana Turner (bottom right):

 

[Marc Chevalier]

We need to form a Marsha Hunt fan club. She may well be still alive. Wouldn't it be cool to let her know about the Fedora Lounge? Imagine what she could contribute to this place ...

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[RetroModelSari]

Wow! I really wanna buy the book now and read it!! I´ll keep my eyes open.

 

[artdecodame]

We need to form a Marsha Hunt fan club. She may well be still alive.

I believe she still is! Or at least I haven't found any dates that would indicate her passing. Hmm! There are so few old actresses alive from the era these days, it's sad.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Great pictures, and they remind me again why I like this period's clothing better than the forties'.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

We need to form a Marsha Hunt fan club. She may well be still alive.

Played in a 2005 movie.

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[decodoll]

www.abe.com has about 18 copies of the book right now. It's not cheap, but this book is definitely worth it. I lucked out and got mine off a clearance table when it was still in print. This is one book I pull out all the time. Just to add one more credit to her growing list, she is also a very talented seamstress and made many of the outfits pictured herself.

 

[scotrace]

Yes!

My Library has it! I'll grab at lunch!

 

[maisie]

She was beautiful and so were her fabulous clothes, there isn't one picture, or outfit, I didn't like!

 

[mysterygal]

That had to be one of the best books I've looked through to get a look at women's fashion. In every photo, she looked absolutely great. It's such a great book so see how to fully pull of a look, it's amazing how when you add hat and/or gloves, how it really pulls a whole outfit together.
I would love to look like that daily, though, I'd probably be looked at as being insane (?)
MK...I definetly want to look at that book again!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

It's particularly interesting to see ONE PERSON -- Marsha Hunt -- wearing all those different styles and hairdos. It gives you a clear sense of how particular sets of clothes and hair fashions can make you look different ... just as they made her look different.

I didn't post the many photos of Marsha wearing 1940s fashions. They look every bit as good as the '30s clothes ... and she looks great in them too!

Since MK has the book, he can post those '40s photos here.

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[mysterygal]

her 40's outfits are actually my favorites...there's something about that period of time that I love about the clothes.
Good for you Marc....now MK won't feel totally beaten to the chase with posting pics

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Hey, if it weren't for MK, there wouldn't be a cool place for me (or anyone) to post those pictures in! Thank goodness for him and this Lounge

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[mysterygal]

trying to win brownie points?

lol ....hope you know I'm kidding! I absolutely love this place. Such valuable information. Plus, have met so many great people.
What a great idea for a book like that! btw: was it popular when it came out?

 

[Lauren]

I think I'm about to short circuit my computor from drool.

I mean, what? A lady never drools.
I'll take two of each, please

 

[Marc Chevalier]

What a great idea for a book like that! btw: was it popular when it came out?

I don't know if it was popular, but the story behind it is ironic.

Back in the early 1980s, Marsha Hunt was asked to be a "grand marshall" at the opening of the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping mall, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. Ironic, because this mall immediately became "ground zero" for the Valley Girls. (Remember them? Made famous by the Frank Zappa song with his daughter, Moon Unit?) Valley Girls were the spiritual precursors of today's Paris Hilton wannabes. Their attitude was pretty much the same. Vapid and tasteless.

Anyway, at the mall's opening, the theme was "The Golden Era of Fashion: the '30s and the '40s". Marsha Hunt contributed old photos of herself in clothing of those days. The incredibly positive response inspired her to write the book.

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[Marc Chevalier]

I think I'm about to short circuit my computor from drool.

I mean, what? A lady never drools.

Believe me, this gentleman did!

Lauren, since you and I and Marsha Hunt live in Southern California, why don't we contact her? Apparently, she appeared onscreen as recently as 2005. Let's introduce her to the Fedora Lounge! What say you?

 

[scotrace]

My Library has it! I'll grab at lunch!

No they don't! It went walkabouts sometime after 1995. I'm the first to ask for it since!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Used bookstores should have it. Worth buying for the sparkling, very informative text as much as for the photos.

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[Marc Chevalier]

Check out all the movies and TV shows that Marsha Hunt has been in! Tons. She played Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (1940). She was also in Winter Carnival, a movie whose script F. Scott Fitzgerald was supposed to write, until he suffered an alcoholic relapse. (Read Budd Schulberg's novel about it: "The Disenchanted".)


HAT TRIVIA: One of the films is named Panama Hattie (1942).

SILLY TRIVIA: One of the films has a silly name: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939).


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402554/#archive


Oh, and here's the latest movie she was in. From 2005:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419639/


Turns out that Marsha is the "honorary mayor" of Sherman Oaks, California.

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