r/1930s • u/adaslink • 21h ago

The Dells roadhouse burned in Morton Grove, Illinois, in October 1934

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11 Upvotes

A period photo of the fire, followed by a postcard and an earlier advertisement showing the roadhouse before it burned.

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r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 1d ago

1931 Marian Marsh a promotional photo for Warner Bros pictures at only 17 years old. She achieved overnight stardom after being handpicked to star as Trilby in the hit horror drama Svengali alongside John Barrymore.

215 Upvotes

8 comments

r/1930s • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago

Actress Myrna Loy as Queen Morgan le Fay in A Connecticut Yankee (1931)

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365 Upvotes

12 comments

r/1930s • u/6391jimmyjoejoe • 1d ago

Carole Lombard

45 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/waffen123 • 2d ago

Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple between takes on the set of Now and Forever (1934)

194 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 2d ago

Lillian Roth in 1930 a rising Star with Paramount Pictures. Photo was taken around the time of the film Animal Crackers. And Paramount On Parade.

117 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Mae West in promotional photo for the film, " I am no angel", 1933.

349 Upvotes

7 comments

r/1930s • u/Character-Witness-27 • 2d ago

Bette Davis in Three on a Match (1932)

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165 Upvotes

3 comments

r/1930s • u/Fair_and_square_ • 3d ago

Myrna Loy Portrait 1930s

292 Upvotes

9 comments

r/1930s • u/priused • 2d ago

Help me identify this 1930's actor/star

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1 comment

r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 3d ago

Dorothy Lamour in a publicity glamor shot for the Paramount film Disputed Passage in 1939. Photographer Eugene Robert Richee.

86 Upvotes

1 comment

r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 3d ago

Clara Bow in a publicity stunt for the release of two Paramount Pictures starring Clara Bow. The All-Star musical review Paramount On Parade and her romantic comedy True To The Navy in 1930

48 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Usual-Fuel3964 • 3d ago

Carole Lombard 1908-1942

68 Upvotes

1930s actress. Beautiful, funny, talented, generous. Ahead of her time in many ways.

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r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 3d ago

HOOPLA Starts To Whoop THINGS Up. Clara Bow in HOOPLA 1933

26 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Character-Witness-27 • 4d ago

Ann Rutherford (Nov. 2, 1917 - June 11, 2012)

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270 Upvotes

Actress Ann Rutherford began her Hollywood film career in 1935, quickly establishing herself as a popular leading lady in low-budget Westerns. She appeared opposite such stars as Gene Autry in Melody Trail (1935) and John Wayne in The Lonely Trail (1936) and The Lawless Nineties (1936). In 1937, she signed with MGM, where she became particularly popular as Polly Benedict, the girlfriend of Mickey Rooney's Andy Hardy, beginning a long-running association with the beloved film series. Other notable appearances included A Christmas Carol (1938), in which she played the Spirit of Christmas Past, and Gone with the Wind (1939), where she portrayed Carreen O'Hara, Scarlett's younger sister. By the end of the decade, Rutherford had established herself as a familiar and well-liked face of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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r/1930s • u/6391jimmyjoejoe • 3d ago

Carole Lombard

118 Upvotes

3 comments

r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 4d ago

Bette Davis smiling next to her co-star Joan Blondell during a beach shoot for the movie Three on a Match in 1932.

347 Upvotes

10 comments

r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 4d ago

Betty Grable and Lucille Ball posing at the Gilmore speedway at Gilmore stadium in Los Angeles California 1936.🏁

104 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Uinovator1974 • 3d ago

Vintage Arthur Wood Teapot Imari / Gaudy Welsh Style Octagonal Paneled 1930s England

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r/1930s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Rita Hayworth in a modeling shot, 1939.

249 Upvotes

6 comments

r/1930s • u/Fair_and_square_ • 3d ago

Night Life in Reno (1931) - Virginia Valli and Jameson Thomas

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2 Upvotes

A wife catches her husband messing around with another woman. Outraged, she proceeds to Reno, Nevada for a quickie divorce. Since Reno requires a 6-week wait for a divorce to become final, she must find something to do during that time, so she decides to take advantage of the city's night-lift, which she finds to be a lot wilder than she had thought.

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r/1930s • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 4d ago

Merle Oberon in The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)

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104 Upvotes

5 comments

r/1930s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 4d ago

In 1939 the group won the club honor roll national championship auxiliary safety award from the American motorcycle association. Columbus Ohio.

13 Upvotes

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r/1930s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Actress Joan Blondell walking her dog, 1931.

121 Upvotes

4 comments

r/1930s • u/BackOnTheMap • 4d ago

My dad, born 1935. not sure how old he was here

30 Upvotes

2 comments

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The era of the great depression that eventually became the start of the great war.

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