The Silent Movie Calendar's July Bathing Beauties

[Frederica]

Mack Swain, Polly Moran, and Harry Depp in drag. So is Harry Depp prettier than Polly Moran, or is that just me? Because he's really kinda cute in that ensemble.

[drednm]

HOW RUDE.... Polly Moran was well known as William Haines' intended....

[greta de groat]

I've been contemplating that question for two weeks now. He's got great shoes (Depp, not Swain)

greta

[barafan]

I agree with you, greta - I think Depp's whole outfit is lovely, especially the shoes. Hmmm. . .maybe I've found this year's Halloween costume.

[Frederica]

I agree with you, greta - I think Depp's whole outfit is lovely, especially the shoes. Hmmm. . .maybe I've found this year's Halloween costume.

I spotted the shoes, too. The hat isn't bad either. Altogether, he's a fetching little thing. Maybe there's some heretofore unknown rule about actors named Depp and drag.

[rudyfan]

It's the stripes, they're so slimming.

[Frederica]

It's the stripes, they're so slimming.

That's Mack in the stripes--although I agree, he is quite stunning, especially with the matching pillbox hat completing the ensemble. Harry Depp is the love-muffin on the right, clasping her...er...his hands and gazing adoringly at Mack.

[rudyfan]

It's the stripes, they're so slimming.

That's Mack in the stripes--although I agree, he is quite stunning, especially with the matching pillbox hat completing the ensemble. Harry Depp is the love-muffin on the right, clasping her...er...his hands and gazing adoringly at Mack.

OMG I am such a DOOFUS. Never bothered to look at the caption....
Putting on DUNCE cap now.

[greta de groat]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

[Frederica]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

I thought that myself when I first bought this still: "I think I wore that to a club once." It's kinda cute.

Rodney, did you have anything else in mind when you Marvel Rea and Virginia Rappe on the same page, other than the overly-complicated bathing attire? Because, wow. Irony much?

[Christopher Jacobs]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

Yes, October's Virginia Rappe photo is certainly a good candidate for most striking outfit, pose, and facial expression on the whole 2011 calendar! I'm sure that it must be responsible for the odd and certainly unexpected dream I had last night featuring Virginia and Joan together (true story!). As for Rodney's pairing of the two October photos, I'm sure a large part had to do with the vertical compositions letting two pictures fit on the same page.

[Frederica]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

Yes, October's Virginia Rappe photo is certainly a good candidate for most striking outfit, pose, and facial expression on the whole 2011 calendar! I'm sure that it must be responsible for the odd and certainly unexpected dream I had last night featuring Virginia and Joan together (true story!).

??? Can you tell, or is it one of those dreams that shouldn't be discussed in a family-friendly forum?

[Christopher Jacobs]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

Yes, October's Virginia Rappe photo is certainly a good candidate for most striking outfit, pose, and facial expression on the whole 2011 calendar! I'm sure that it must be responsible for the odd and certainly unexpected dream I had last night featuring Virginia and Joan together (true story!).

??? Can you tell, or is it one of those dreams that shouldn't be discussed in a family-friendly forum?

I'm afraid it wasn't one of "those" dreams (darn!), at least not what I can remember of it, as like so many surviving silent films it was little more than a fragment in which I vaguely recall (it seems like a dream!) that you were just helping her with her costume or some such thing, no doubt suggested from the photo caption -- at least that's pretty much all I can remember of it. And there might have been a bench involved, similar to that in the May photo. Also, it may or may not have all been in black and white (I once had a pretty vivid black and white dream of Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra). Black and white dreams are always fun, but relatively rare.

[Arndt]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

Miss Rappe should never have gone out in such a skimpy outfit. Didn't she know how easy it is to catch a nasty urinary tract infection?

[Frederica]

Wow, and check out Virginia's very advanced fashion sense this month--that looks like something one of the freshmen girls around here would be prancing around in. She'd have made a mint with those leggings.

greta

Miss Rappe should never have gone out in such a skimpy outfit. Didn't she know how easy it is to catch a nasty urinary tract infection?

You'd think she would, since she caught one every five minutes.

[Wm. Charles Morrow]

And now we've got Rudy looming overhead, like the Sword of Damocles.