Tweet looking for specific images of Norma Talmadge and Pola Negri

I recently got beat on ebay out for this amazing still of Pola:



It's from "Three Sinners". I am somewhat intrigued by the outfit she's wearing. Does anyone have scans of different pics of her wearing this outfit, I wonder?

I also got beat out - and how, it went for over $400 - on a Russell Ball image of Norma Talmadge:



I found somewhere, trawling the interweb or ebay maybe, I can't remember, another R.Ball image of Norma, evidently from the same set:



...does anyone know if there are any more images in this set, and if so, does anyone have scans?

Many thanks!

I found this on flickr. unfortunately I can only grab a link to a little image:



What a picture! I don't think I have ever seen Ms Negri look better. The uploader has disabled downloads, and the highest reso version is to be honest not a lot better than this. (edit:i managed to scavenge the highest res version using Opera's "inspect element" - that's as big as it gets) A little cache of "3 Sinners" stills, from which this one is taken is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicejapan ... eesinners/

I wonder if anyone has higher reso scans of any of these stills?

Well, you can check with the Herrick holdings if you are in LA.

Might also want to contact the guy that runs the Pola Negri website, he might have the image(s).

I do not find it surpring that the Russell Ball of Norma Talmadge went for $400, I presume it's 11x14 and a nice photo.

Very spirited- a bit different from the usual languid image. I think the blond hair looks completely false, but just right for the character she's playing. If she was wearing this out on the street it would be another matter.

I've managed to scavenge a couple more off ebay aution images where the seller hasn't watermarked the pic:








I found, er, somewhere, I can't remember where, an image from the Russell Ball (? it's the same necklace and seems to be the same top anyway) shoot of Norma Talmadge, quite an unusual angle I thought. Her eyebrows are amazing:

the numbers on the "3 Sinners" stills are a little inconsistent too: On this page, top down:
693-63 (Pola Lighting cigarette)
693-59 (Spirited Pola!)
1124-sixtysomething (Pola w cigarette listening to older guy)
1124-54 (Pola smoking cigarette)
1124-97 (pola in doorway in black gown)
Another one I have, with a copyright (!) watermark from the seller showing pola and 2 other guys (not Warner Baxter though) struggling over a pistol is numbered 1124-60

there is a nice one of Olga Baclanova on the olgabaclanova.com website which is numbered 693.96 - I wonder if there were 2 series of stills and why, if so?

Very spirited- a bit different from the usual languid image. I think the blond hair looks completely false, but just right for the character she's playing. If she was wearing this out on the street it would be another matter.

That was my first reaction too. She looks like a brunette in a blonde wig. Forgot to bleach her eyebrows!

Jim

693 was the West Coast production number for THREE SINNERS, 1124 was the East Coast number.

Thanks! One lives and learns. So if one had say 693-63 and 1124-63, these would be the same photograph? (actually, I just checked in the image folder I have - there is a 693-97 and a 1124-97 and they are the same photo) I have 14 pics in there now, not quite enough for a slideshow reconstruction yet!

That was my first reaction too. She looks like a brunette in a blonde wig. Forgot to bleach her eyebrows!

Jim

For comparison, here's another still from Three Sinners where Negri does appear as a brunette (with Tullio Carminati).

So if one had say 693-63 and 1124-63, these would be the same photograph?

That depends. For earlier Paramount films, the codes did not need to match. You can see an example here of a Paramount still with two codes, one ending "-93" and the other "-105". But I think that in the later period they did match and that they just replaced the prefix on the negative. For RKO films in the 1930s, the two suffixes generally did not match.

Here hair looks fake there as well- and so does his.

Out of curiosity, what is Tullio Carminati's survival rate?

Out of curiosity, what is Tullio Carminati's survival rate?

Zero. He's dead.


Jim

Side parted, Blonde Pola looks terrific - with her usual hairstyle, she just looks like she's had a rather unfortunate shock overnight.

Who wants to take a guess at the identity of this not-usually-a-blonde?

Side parted, Blonde Pola looks terrific - with her usual hairstyle, she just looks like she's had a rather unfortunate shock overnight.

Who wants to take a guess at the identity of this not-usually-a-blonde?

That's Mary Brian with James Cagney in HARD TO HANDLE (1933). Why on earth did they make her a blonde in that picture?

I recently got beat on ebay out for this amazing still of Pola:



It's from "Three Sinners". I am somewhat intrigued by the outfit she's wearing. Does anyone have scans of different pics of her wearing this outfit, I wonder?

I also got beat out - and how, it went for over $400 - on a Russell Ball image of Norma Talmadge:



I found somewhere, trawling the interweb or ebay maybe, I can't remember, another R.Ball image of Norma, evidently from the same set:



...does anyone know if there are any more images in this set, and if so, does anyone have scans?

Many thanks!

I used to have a photo of Norma Talmadge which appears from the same set. Sepia toned, same dress and hairstyle in soft focus and her portrait in profile. Was framed and hung on my wall for about 10 year. Wish I still had it.

Side parted, Blonde Pola looks terrific - with her usual hairstyle, she just looks like she's had a rather unfortunate shock overnight.

Who wants to take a guess at the identity of this not-usually-a-blonde?

That's Mary Brian with James Cagney in HARD TO HANDLE (1933). Why on earth did they make her a blonde in that picture?

I saw the film the other day, and that her character is a blonde is meant to be absurd. It's mentioned in the dance marathon that Mary came out to California with her widowed stage mother Ruth Donnelly to break into the movies, and through the film they have bizarre matching mother-daughter outfits down to not just hair color, but hairstyle as well.