Norma Shearer at the insect ball

Norma Shearer at the insect ball from the pre-Code film Riptide (1934, Edmund Goulding). 
Check out this stunning portrait of Tyrone Power. 

Suggested ballyhoo for The Black Cat

Costumes for ushers of The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934).
Check out Maurice Pialat and Isabelle Huppert in Cannes here

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on set

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on the set of The Black Cat (1934).
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On set of “L’Atalante” (1934)

Jean Vigo directing Jean Dasté & Dita Parlo on the set of “L’Atalante” (1934).
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Swedish poster of The Dragon Murder Case

The Dragon Murder Case (Warner Brothers, 1934). Poster artist: Gösta Åberg.

Swedish poster of The Man Who Reclaimed His Head

Swedish poster of The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934, by Edward Ludwig). Poster by Walter Fuchs.
Check out Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Rope right here

Lilian Gish by Edward Steichen, 1934.

Lilian Gish by Edward Steichen, 1934.
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A chess match between Bert Brecht and Walter Benjamin

Two very influential figures in the art world: Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht. Skovsbostrand, Denmark. 1934.

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Cecil B. DeMille on the cover of TIME!

“When William Shakespeare was ready to write the story of Cleopatra, he needed nothing more than pen, ink, paper and his own lively genius. Three centuries later George Bernard Shaw required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America…” (Cover Story for Time magazine, Monday, Aug. 27, 1934)

Check out Cecil B. DeMille on the cover of Time magazine in 1934, after his film “Cleopatra”.
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Tony Curtis with his 1934 Rolls-Royce, shot by Ralph Crane.

Tony Curtis (1925- 2010),one of my favorite American actors, star of Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and Some Like it Hot (1959) among other masterpieces. Curtis lived on a grand scale over the years. He bought an 18-room Hollywood villa in 1966 with four acres and a garage that sheltered the actor’s new Lincoln Continental, a 1934 Rolls-Royce, 1937 Bentley, and 1935 Duesenberg, among his other cars.

He acquired this Rolls Royce Drophead Convertible in 1959. Here are these photos of him in 1961, shot by Ralph Crane for LIFE magazine.

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