The Roaring '20's
The 1920s Changed Our Daily Lives & Not How You Might Think . . . Read more >>
In the 1920's, life changed drastically for the average American and for people all over the world. Airplanes began to be a mode of transportation and communication. Automobiles, rather than horses, were used to get from place to place. Skirts became shorter and hats became smaller. Some people had telephones. And families could own cameras and record their own memories. << Read less
This is a photo of my father and grandmother, Madeline F Hill Willis and her son Richard Gifford Willis. I believe the photo is from around 1925
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A photo of my mother's older sister, Aunt Rose Finkel, as a flapper, in the 1920's, NYC. I colorized this photo in Photoshop.
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A photo of Mary Brian, actress.
From Wikipedia: Mary Brian (February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress and movie star who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
She was born Louise Byrdie Dantzler in Corsicana, Texas, the daughter of Taurrence J. Dantzler (December 1869 – March 18, 1906) and Louise B. (August 12, 1876 – April 3, 1973). Her brother was Taurrence J. Dantzler, Jr. (August 9, 1903 – April 6, 1973).
Her father died when she was one month old and the family later moved to Dallas. In the early 1920s, they moved to Long Beach, California. She had intended becoming an illustrator but that was laid aside when at age 16 she was discovered in a local bathing beauty contest. One of the judges was famous motion picture star Esther Ralston (who was to play her mother in the upcoming Peter Pan and who became a lifelong friend).
She didn't win the $25 prize in the contest but Ralston said, "you've got to give the little girl something." So, her prize was to be interviewed by director Herbert Brenon for a role in Peter Pan. Brenon was recovering from eye surgery, and she spoke with him in a dimly lit room. "He asked me a few questions, Is that your hair? Out of the blue, he said, I would like to make a test. Even to this day, I will never know why I was that lucky. They had made tests of every ingénue in the business for Wendy. He had decided he would go with an unknown. It would seem more like a fairy tale. It wouldn't seem right if the roles were to be taken by someone they (the audience) knew or was divorced. I got the part. They put me under contract." The studio renamed her Mary Brian.
After her showing in the beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1924). There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed close for the rest of their lives. Ralston described both Bronson and Brian as 'very charming people'.
The studio, who created her stage name for the movie and said she was age 16 instead of 18, because the latter sounded too old for the role, then signed her to a long-term motion picture contract. Brian played Fancy Vanhern, daughter of Percy Marmont, in Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men (1925), which had newcomer Louise Brooks in an uncredited debut role as a moll.
Career rise
Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." On loan-out to MGM, she played a college belle, Mary Abbott, opposite William Haines and Jack Pickford in Brown of Harvard (1926). She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Astor, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.
During her years at Paramount, Brian appeared in more than 40 movies as the juvenile lead, the ingenue or co-star. She worked with Brenon again in 1926 when she played Isabel in P. C. Wren's Beau Geste starring Ronald Colman. That same year she made Behind the Front and Harold Teen. In 1928, she played ingenue Alice Deane in Forgotten Faces opposite Clive Brook, her sacrificing father, with Olga Baclanova as her vixen mother and William Powell as Froggy. Like many of Brian's Paramount movies, Forgotten Faces, which was a big box-office hit, is presumed lost.
Successful transition to 'Talkies'
Mary Brian with Gary Cooper in The Virginian (1929)
Mary Brian with James Hall in Manhattan Tower (1932)
Her first talkie was Varsity (1928), which was filmed with part-sound and talking sequences, opposite Buddy Rogers. After successfully making the transition to sound, she co-starred with Gary Cooper, Walter Huston and Richard Arlen in one of the earliest Western talkies, The Virginian (1929), her first all-talkie feature. In it, she played a spirited frontier heroine, schoolmarm Molly Stark Wood, who was the love interest of the Virginian (Cooper).
Brian co-starred in several hits during the 1930s, including her role as Gwen Cavendish in George Cukor’s comedy The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) with Ina Claire and Fredric March, as herself in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930), as Peggy Grant in Lewis Milestone’s comedy The Front Page (1931) with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.
After her contract with Paramount ended in 1932, Brian freelanced. That same year, she appeared on the vaudeville stage at New York's Palace Theatre. Also in the same year,she starred in Manhattan Tower.
Other movie roles include Murial Ross, aka Murial Rossi, in Shadows of Sing Sing (1933), in which she received top billing, Gloria Van Dayham in College Rhythm (1934), Yvette Lamartine in Charlie Chan in Paris (1935), Hope Wolfinger, W. C. Fields’s daughter, in Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), Sally Barnaby in Spendthrift (1936) opposite Henry Fonda, and Doris in Navy Blues (1937), in which she received top billing.
In 1936, she went to England and made three movies, including The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss in which she starred opposite Cary Grant, to whom she became engaged at one stage.
Her final film of the 1930s was Affairs of Cappy Ricks although she auditioned unsuccessfully for the part that would go to Janet Gaynor in A Star is Born.[2]
Later career
Mary Brian with Ann Baker in Meet Corliss Archer
Brian was absent from the screen from 1937 to 1943, and appeared in only a handful of films thereafter. Her last performance on the silver screen was in Dragnet (1947), a B-movie in which she played Anne Hogan opposite Henry Wilcoxon. Over the course of 22 years, Brian had appeared in more than 79 movies.
She played in the stage comedy Mary Had a Little... in the 1951 in Melbourne, Australia, co-starring with John Hubbard. During World War II, she entertained servicemen in the South Pacific and in Europe. She spent Christmas of 1944 with the soldiers fighting the Battle of the Bulge.
During the 1950s, Brian had something of a career in television, most notably playing the title character's mother in Meet Corliss Archer (1954).
She also dedicated a lot of time to portrait painting in her retirement years.
Though she was engaged numerous times and was linked romantically to numerous Hollywood men, including Cary Grant and notorious womaniser Jack Pickford, Brian had only two husbands: magazine illustrator Jon Whitcomb (for six weeks, beginning May 4, 1941) and film editor George Tomasini (from 1947 until his death in 1964). After retiring from the screen for good, she devoted herself to her husband's career; Tomasini worked as film editor for Hitchcock on the classics Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).[3]
She died of heart failure at age 96 in Del Mar, California. She is interred in the Eternal Love Section, Lot 4134, Space 2, Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, overlooking Burbank.
Mary Brian has a star for her contribution to motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street in Hollywood.
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A photo of my grandpa Julian Leos posing with a bottle, Looks like he is trying to decide whether to take a drink.
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A photo of Hazel Ruth Paczoch Age 16
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A photo of My grandfather, Jacob August Kasper My grandmother told me grandpa was 16 or 17 in this photo.
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A photo of Carl E McClanahan and brother William (Bill) McClanahan
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Unidentified photo found in an antique store. The only thing written on it is "Lovingly, Sally".
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A photo of Anthony Garret Rispoli
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A photo of Mary L. (Joyce) Kleaver and her son John Joyce Kleaver, Jr.
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A photo of Earl Smith
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A photo of Ruby (Clark) Ashby and James T. Ashby
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Also in the pictures is Beulah May Ashby. Her Husband's, (James Thaddius Ashby) sister. The back of the photo reads "about 1925"
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A photo of Albert Livolsi
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A photo of Tess White's dimpled daughter, Betty White.
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A photo of my grandmother, Bertha Romanczuk at 14 years old - it's a 'tintype', also known as a 'melainotype' or 'ferrotype'... a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion.
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A photo of Otto August Wolner as best man at brother Oliver Alexander's wedding
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A photo of Harry Herbert Whitney
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A photo of Gladys Gertrude (Clark) Burbank, about 4 years old in her outdoor gear at Revere Beach in Mass.
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A photo of Sarah Mary (Toner) Henderson and family
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A photo of Jan Michniewicz in the 1920
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A photo of Mary (Henderson) Brett in the 1920s
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A photo of Susan and Fred Wittman in the 1920s
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A photo of Fred Wittman and Susan Farrell's Wedding
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A photo of Susan and Fred Wittman and Family 1920s
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The California Theater in San Jose CA. The playbill reads “Billie Dove in An Affair of the Follies” which released in 1927. Actress Doris Eaton” is on the board as well, which means the photo was taken in 1928.
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A photo of Daphne Du Maurier
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I believe it’s of the Paris/Maxwell side - If any one could identify any of these pics, I’d greatly be appreciated
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A photo of Clara and two of her sons probably Herbert abt 4 yrs and James abt 2 yrs. (guessing on the ages of the boys) Clara died in 1928 at the age of 30. She died of an infection in the hospital after surgery for small tumors.
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A photo of Henry Lawrence Hanson & Clara Schwerin Hanson Parents of Henry William McKenerick (Hanson)
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This is a baby picture of my grandmother. It was taken around Christmas 1920 when she was about 4 months old. It was originally black and white - I colorized it using a phone app.
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Because no scene is exciting enough without various aircraft randomly pasted all over the sky.
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Heres a photograph showing the Norwegian State Police school in Christiania ( Oslo today) 1920, wich depicts my great great grandfather Johannes and his fellow officers.
Hes the 3rd at bottom row from the left.
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A picture of Goldie (Mentzer) Waters, Irene (Mentzer) Hall, and their brother, Raymond Ira Mentzer.Goldie was born in 1917, Irene was born in 1914, and Raymond was born in 1912. Therefore, a date for the picture would be early 1920's.
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A photo of Four Ashenden ladies in front of their porch. Found in a Texas antique store with other photos of the Ashenden family of Massachusetts. Back uploaded separately. "Rose (nee Buckly) Ashenden + Eva Ashenden Murray, Edith Ashenden, Lillian (nee Ashenden) Lawton". A dog is visible next to the door.
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A snapshot of the Ashenden family found at a Texas antique store with other photos of the Ashenden family of Massachusetts. Description uploaded separately. The older baby on the left is identified as Richard Murray, but Richard apparently wasn't born until after his grandfather Daniel (holding the little boy) had died. I think the boy is therefore more likely to be Richard's brother Edward.
Left to right: Daniel C. Evans holding Edward Francis Murray; Eva (Ashenden) Murray, Thomas Edward Ashenden holding Harley Elizabeth (Frye) Fowler; Lillian (Ashenden) Frye-Lawton.
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A photo of Rebecca Thacher (Clarke) Evans
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