“Shadows” of the Stars (1926) 🇺🇸
These humble persons are even more lowly than “doubles,” but many a girl gets her start in the movies by playing “shadow” to a star — that is, substituting for her on the set during the adjusting of cameras and lights.
Bebe Daniels Tells Her Untold Tale (1929) 🇺🇸
Confessions of the Stars — The fourth of a series of real life stories. The life of Bebe Daniels has been another one of those open books with, every page well thumbed. Every page save one.
Agua Caliente — The Playground of the Stars (1930) 🇺🇸
Bathing Beauties — What Has Become of the Famous Sennett Beauties? (1932) 🇺🇸
What the Follies girls are to Broadway, the Sennett bathing beauties once were to Hollywood. A few have risen to stardom. But most of them have vanished completely.
The Unfamous of Hollywood — Bebe Daniels and Pauline Gallagher — They Run a Red, White and Blue Shop (1934) 🇺🇸
Careers for women? Not one, but two or three — with a home and children on the side — is the latest Hollywood custom.
Hollywood's Top Swimmers (1928) 🇺🇸
An overview of Hollywood's power players on the eve of the silent movie era. Illustrated by de Bru (a pseudonym by bandleader Xavier Cugat, who did not forget to include himself in this drawing).