October 2020 – Page 3 – Fists and .45s!

Don’t Lose Your Head

On: October 19, 2020June 19, 2020 By: Romeyn

A bizarre promotional shots of Kathryn Stanley as Salome holding John the Baptist’s head (1926, photo by Edwin Hesser)
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Miriam Hopkins, 1934

On: October 18, 2020August 13, 2020 By: Romeyn

Photo of actress Miriam Hopkins by American-Russian fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968), used on the January 23rd, 1935 issue of Vogue Magazine

Rex Dexter of Mars

On: October 18, 2020August 3, 2020 By: Romeyn

Spider Dress, 1939

On: October 17, 2020August 6, 2020 By: Romeyn

The spider dress as photographed by Horst P. Horst, a German-born American fashion photographer.

The Incomparable Batman

On: October 17, 2020August 3, 2020 By: Romeyn

Newspaper advertisement for the 1949 serial Batman and Robin

New “Vamp” Shades

On: October 16, 2020June 29, 2020 By: Romeyn

1940 advertisement for Revlon’s new “Vamp” shades of lipstick, nail polish and “cheek stick”

Carole Jayne, the Spider Girl

On: October 16, 2020August 6, 2020 By: Romeyn

Illustration of “Carole Jayne” as the Spider Girl c.1940s

Sax-Ona Ghost Show

On: October 15, 2020April 15, 2020 By: Romeyn

Traveling spook show poster, 1950s

Ella Raines

On: October 14, 2020June 29, 2020 By: Romeyn

Promotional shot of Ella Raines for the Strange Affair of Uncle Henry, 1945

Death Lurks

On: October 13, 2020December 13, 2019 By: Romeyn

1933 Newspaper advertisement by Goodyear warning of threadbare tires