CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: 1920s ARCADE CARD BEAUTIES – THEIR CHARM AND GRACE AND WHIMSY

INCLUDED HERE ARE IMAGES OF MOVIE STARS, BATHING BEAUTIES, AND PIN-UPS OF TH E 1920s. THE DATE IS A BIT DECEPTIVE SINCE MANY OF THE IMAGES – ESPECIALLY THE MACK SENNETT COMEDIES – DATE TO THE TEENS, AND I DO NOT HAVE ACCURATE DATING FOR MANY IMAGES. THE LATE TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES ARE CLOSE ENOUGH IN SPIRIT TO BE INCLUDED TOGETHER. AS YOU MAY READILY SEE IN THE IMAGES, WOMEN OF THE ERA HAD A SPECIAL SENSE OF CHARM AND GRACE AND WHIMSY. FROM THE DRAMATIC LIGHTING AND STYLES AND MELODRAMATIC POSES OF FAMOUS MOVIE STARS TO THE CARE TAKEN IN POSING HANDS AND FEET OF THE PIN-UPS AND TO THEIR WHIMSICAL COSTUMES THERE IS A CAPTIVATING AND PLAYFUL, ALMOST ANTIC, SENSE OF STYLE. HAIR STYLING DEPARTED DRAMATICALLY FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE CENTURY, AND EYE MAKE-UP PLAYED A SPECIAL ROLE IN THE MELODRAMTIC AND COMEDIC IMAGES. IN GENERAL, PIN-UPS OF THE TIME WERE POSITIVELY CHASTE BY LATER STANDARDS. AMONG THE FACE TYPES WHICH WERE POPULAR, I NOTE PARTICULARLY THE RENOIR-TYPES – HARRIET HAMMOND, MARIE PREVOST, MARY THURMOND, AND PHYLLIS HAVER – WITH THEIR SWEET SMILES AND FULLER FACES THAN WE SEE IN TODAY'S ACTRESSES AND MODELS .

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PHOTO – MOVIE STAR – CLARA BOW – IN BRIEF SLIP SITTING ON BED TALKING TO ANOTHER WOMAN – STILL FROM MOVIE – PRETTY STEAMY – NO WONDER THEY EVENTUALLY BROUGHT IN A MOVIE CODE

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PHOTO – MOVIE STAR – CLARA BOW – IN BRIEF SLIP SITTING ON BED TALKING TO ANOTHER WOMAN – STILL FROM MOVIE – PRETTY STEAMY – NO WONDER THEY EVENTUALLY BROUGHT IN A MOVIE CODE

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PHOTO – MOVIE STAR – CLARA BOW – IN BRIEF SLIP SITTING ON BED TALKING TO ANOTHER WOMAN – STILL FROM MOVIE – PRETTY STEAMY – NO WONDER THEY EVENTUALLY BROUGHT IN A MOVIE CODE

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