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Announcement
I’ll be taking an indefinite hiatus from this blog starting…tonight, really. I find I don’t have time to keep it up with the quality I’d like to, so I’m taking a long leave of absence to focus on other things. I won’t be doing anything rash - I’m not deleting or anything, and the archives will still be here. And I’m sure I’ll pop in to heart things and fritter around on my other blogs occasionally, too. :)
I’ll still be on Facebook and Twitter and will still be doing the occasional postcard or other silent film-related giveaway on there. I’m also working on a more long-form silent film blog I’ll update once a week or so, and I’ll post a link here when it’s up!
Thanks to all of you for following me this past year and a half - I didn’t expect the blog to become nearly so popular when I first began it, and it was always so rewarding hearing from everyone who wrote. I’ve learned so much from you all! Please feel free to drop me an email at thenonsensesong [at] gmail [dot] com any ol’ time.
**UPDATE** The indefinite hiatus is a bit more definite- I’m planning to be back towards the end of the summer. See you then!
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12 year old Ivor Novello (actor, composer, playwright. 1893 - 1951) as an Edwardian stage beauty.
As a boy Ivor worshipped Edwardian actresses such as Gertie Millar, Lily Elsie, and Zena and Phyllis Dare. One day, with the help of a friend, Ivor fooled the drawing-room guests into thinking that he was a young beauty called Lily May. The charade was so popular that this photographer’s studio picture was taken the next day to commemorate it.(via lilianavonk)
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Dorothy Revier
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Don’t forget to tune in to the TCM Charlie Chaplin marathon tonight beginning at 8pm (EST).
Even though I can watch Charlie’s movies anytime on DVD, it’s fun to see them on TCM. I especially enjoy Robert Osborne’s intros and outros.
Yeah can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(via chaplinfan)
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Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (1926)
(via thesterlingscreen)
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Don’t Change Your Husband, 1919.
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Charlie in the Circus c.1928
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Marion Davies, Marianne, 1929
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Lillian Gish poses for Gleb Derujinsky, 1924
