Drawings of Hollywood 1920-1939

By Alan Daniel

Come on in for a fun rewind to the golden age of Hollywood, its actors and ambiance. In a series of drawings from old images, both black and white and color, Alan has re-created the magical world of the 1920s and 30s through the movie stars of the era. Short biographical descriptions regarding the high points of the lives of the stars accompany the drawings.

Page after page has memories of the men and women who started it all. Clara Bow, Lillian Gish, Theda Bara, Greta Garbo, Harold Lloyd, and the gang would love to see you and reminisce about the exciting times. Discovery awaits. A woman studio executive discovered Valentino, do you know the story? Did flappers change the world?

The drawings can be viewed hundreds of times while we relish the youth and exuberance that drove millions forward into the future of the western world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796052886

Alan Daniel

Alan was born in Bakersfield, CA, in 1947, attended San Fernando Valley State University, graduating in 1970 with a BA in history. The Vietnam war was raging and Alan joined the US Marines and became a helicopter pilot. He attended night school and received his MBA before leaving the USMC as a captain. He graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1978 with his JD and passed the California Bar that same year. He retired from the City of Bakersfield in 2004 where he was an assistant city attorney. Alan now resides in Nevada.

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Rev. date: 08/21/2019

Contents

FOREWORD

The Flapper

Lillian Gish

Lon Chaney

Theda Bara

Louise Brooks

Bebe Daniels

Harold Lloyd

Merle Oberon

Clara Bow

Claudette Colbert

Anna May Wong

Gloria Swanson

Lila Lee

Ruins

Egyptian Ruins

Marion Davies

Rudolph Valentino

Jean Harlow

Clark Gable

Mae West

Billie Burk

US Air Mail

Norma Shearer

Fay Wray

Zasu Pitts

Ann Sothern

Romance in the 1920s

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo & Fredric

Anita Page

Olivia DeHavilland

Joan Bennett

Constance Bennett

Gloria Stuart

Annabella

Joan Crawford

Lili Damita

Carmel Myers

Marlene Dietrich

Myrna Loy

Una Merkel

Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers

Gypsy Rose Lee

HOLLYWOOD HORROR

Nosferatu

The Phantom of the Opera

Dracula

Frankenstein

The Mummy

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Wolf Man

Evelyn Ankers

COMPARING THE ERAS’ FASHIONS

Fashions around 1914 - 1918.

Marriage

Victorian Style

Victorian Ladies

Maid

1920 - 1930 Fashion The Metal Look

1920 - 1930 Fashion The Office Manager

Fashions of 1920 - 1930

Ginger Rogers

Normal Woman’s Outfit in 2019

DRAWINGS OF A FEW FAMOUS PERSONALITIES OF THE INTERWAR ERA

Barbara La Mar

1920s Song Bird

Marion Benda

Geraldine Page

Clara Bow

Betty Blythe

Mary Nolan

APPENDIX

1920 - 1939 A Forgotten World

Alphabetical List Of The Stars

Foreword

The word modern means relating to present or recent times. Somehow, present or recent has ceased to mean today, because today we live in the Post-modern era. Of course, that is quite impossible. We can’t live in the future. Nonetheless, it is what is, and the impossible becomes possible by the support of the avant-garde. So, we are post-modern. At one time, 1920 was as modern as one could get. Everything was happening, everything was changing, and the world was advancing into modern times.

Movies were one of these new things, and they were widely loved. Audiences flocked to the theaters, nickelodeons at first, and the movie theaters grew into palaces where the shadows on the screen were fawned over by millions. As the films pulled in enormous amounts of money, they also recorded, almost subconsciously, the zeitgeist of the time. In 1920, we are the future. Watching these films, and how they see us, that is, the future, recall we are doing the same thing. We are looking toward the future, and someday we will be the past. Today, we can look into the past as it happened, through the magic of motion pictures. In this book, I try to capture a little bit of that era through my drawings.

These drawings represent Hollywood pre-1940. Using the above post-modern terminology, the 1920s and 1930s are Pre-Modern. Many of the drawings are famous movie stars of the 20’s and 30’s, while others are random offerings from the era between the wars. Most of the drawings have been made from old photographs found on the internet. They were drawn with an Apple iPad Pro using an Apple pencil. The drawing programs have varied from Adobe Autodesk Sketchbook, Tayasui Sketches, to Procreate. No claim of artistic talent is claimed by the artist or illustrator (me). They are just fun. Have a good time remembering what once was –– and will never be again.

Thank You, Ms Janice Scanlan, JD, who provided absolutely necessary corrections.

1919 –– 1939

The Forgotten Years Between the Wars

And how the movies help us understand the massive changes of this era

Read in:

Appendix One

The Flapper

She changed the world

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Lillian Gish

(1893 - 1993)

The First Lady of American Cinema

Legendary film star of silent and talking movies. Her films include: The Birth of A Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), The Scarlet Letter (1926), and many more epics. Her film career spanned 75 incomparable years. She appeared in 119 films.

Lillian’s first film was, An Unseen Enemy (1912). Her first sound film was, One Romantic Night (1930).

She died in 1993 at 99 years of age in New York City.

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