Gloria Swanson photographed by Edward Steichen
for Vanity Fair, 1924.
Rudolph Valentino photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair on August 6, 1926. He died less than 3 weeks later from Peritonitis
at the age of 31 on August 23rd. The 2nd photo appeared in the October 1926 issue of Vanity Fair.
Seated model, seen from the waist down, wearing a lame dress, satin Perugia shoes decorated with tassel-shaped rhinestone ornaments, diamond bracelets and ring, and holding a cigarette holder, Photo by Edward Steichen for Vogue Magazine, August 12, 1925
Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in “Beyond the Rocks” (1922)
“Beyond the Rocks” was long considered lost but in 2000 the Netherlands Film Museum inherited the collection of the 87-year-old Joop Van Liempd, which consisted of 2000 cans of film. It was almost three years before the entire six reels of the was discovered. The film was restored and screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on DVD by Milestone Film & Video in 2006.
Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl at the Pierre Ball in Berlin, 1928.
Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt