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Today Karl showcases mostly lovely ladies (and a few gents) from the Golden Age of Cinema.

• Silent film actress Anita Stewart

• Silent superstar Madge Bellamy

• Marion Benda - 2 pictures. She was the Ziegfeld Follies girl who was rumored to be the Woman in Black who visited Rudolph Valentino's grave each year

• Constance Binney and Fay Compton in A Bill of Divorcement (1922) - 2 pictures

• Marie Blake (2 pictures) - she was a movie and television actress from the 1930s to 1960s, including a regular in the 1930s Dr. Kildare films and as Grandmama on The Addams Family television show. Jeanette MacDonald was her younger sister.

• Joyzelle Joyner in an exotic pagan pose in The Sign of the Cross (1932)

• Thelma Todd and Chester Morris in Corsair (1931)

• Sally Blane in Her Summer Hero (1928)

• Three-time Oscar winner Walter Brennan

• Patti Brill, who appeared in thirty-one movies in the 1940s, married four times, and died at age 39

• Stalwart character Ward Bond

• Carole Lombard just before her start in movies in 1921 at age 12

• Edmund Lowe in Espionage (1937)

Joe finishes things off with two new scans:

• A pretty, sepia-toned shot of Olivia de Havilland

• Forrest Tucker and Arleen Whelan in San Antone (1953)

November 25, 2025

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