Beach wear 1925 by dovima_is_devine_II on Flickr.
“The Divorcee” (1930) is seen as one of the most important films of the Pre-Code era and it still surprises with the force and courage with which Norma Shearer’s character acts in it. The story of a strong, risqué woman who rebels against the patriarchal ideal of a virtuous wife while the husband is free to have affairs without tarnishing his reputation and hence confronting the hypocrisy of the double standard promoted feminism long before the term was used and made Norma Shearer (along with her other pre-code movies) almost a feminist pioneer. Based on the novel “Ex-Wife” by Ursula Parrott, it was highly controversial back in the day and ended up getting Norma Shearer her Best Actress Oscar for it. The film had a total of four Academy Award nominations including Best Film
D… Dijon
Gare de Dijon, Dijon, France
by Cart1Resuming the alphabet of Deco, here we are in the D’s again.
Georges Barbier : Falbalas et Fanfreluches, 1925
Barbier: one of the Art Déco gods… Further information < http://www.luxurytraveler.com/The_birth_of_art_deco.html >
Costumes de plage par Schiaparelli , Deauville, juillet 1929. Photo par les frères Seeberger.
Cadillac, 1931 on Flickr.
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Scanned from Taschen’s “All-American Ads of the 30s”.
Poster of Anna Pavlova in Chopiniana for the Ballets Russes. Théatre du Châtelet, Paris, 1909
Studio Manasse, Study, c1933.
… Divas and Lovers: The Erotic Art of Studio Manasse. Story by D.H. Lawrence. Essay by Monika Faber. Published by Universe Publishing 1998.