Forgotten Celebrities of the Era

[LizzieMaine]

Once they were all over your favorite tabloid newspaper or picture magazine and now they've vanished into the murk and mist of the forgotten past. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

Douglas Corrigan

Barbara Hutton

Tommy Manville

Brenda Frazier

Howard Scott

Polly Adler

Father Divine

Elaine Barrie

Dr. Francis Townsend

Sally Rand

 

[2jakes]

And on the teevee toob....

You had to be from another planet if you didn't know who this man was.

You could trust the man who wore the Texaco star that practically everything came to a halt when this man went on the air.

There's many more that have vanished into the Twilight Zone

 

[LizzieMaine]

And still more:

Richard Whitney

Dorothy Kilgallen

James W. Ford

Mary Margaret McBride

Major Edward Bowes

Ruth Harkness and Su Lin

Donn Fendler

Hilda Chester

Salvador Dali

 

[Bugguy]

One of my favorites... TOM MIX

 

[Bugguy]

One of my hero's growing up.... Lloyd Bridges a.k.a. Mike Nelson (with his double-hose)

 

[2jakes]

Rochester

Mae Busch

Emmett Kelly

 

[LizzieMaine]

And yet more ...

Two-Ton Tony Galento

The Dionne Quintuplets

Melvin Purvis

Marjorie Hillis

Dr. John F. Condon

Jessica Dragonette

Irvin S. Cobb

Countess Olga Albani

Sherman Billinglsey

Fala

 

[ChiTownScion]

Shirley Dinsdale (with Judy Splinters)

 

[LizzieMaine]

And still they come...

Man-Mountain Dean

Genora Johnson

Mayor Frank Hague

Princess Alexandra Kropotkin

Elzie C. Segar

Libby Holman

Gaston B. Means

Elsie

Gargantua

 

[2jakes]

Anastasia Romanov.

P.T. Barnum with General Tom Thumb.

Margaretha G. MacLeod alias Mata Hari.

 

[vitanola]

James Buchanan Brady

Miss Evelyn Nesbit

Mrs. Potter Palmer

Dustin Farnum

Texas Guinian

Lucious Beebe

 

[MondoFW]

And still more:

Salvador Dali

Was Dali really forgotten, though? I thought he was still considered pretty iconic.

 

[2jakes]

Elliot Ness

Clarence Darrow

Lizzie Borden

Carrie Nation

Anna Sage

 

[vitanola]

Fannie Ward

Anton Cermak

Elinor Glyn

Grover Whalen

Geraldine Farrar

Major General Leonard Wood

 

[vitanola]

Gene Stratton Porter

Albert Fall

The Seven Sutherland Sisters

Endicott Peabody

Dorothy Dix

Charles W Eliot

Annette Kellerman

bhaihhmm

 

[2jakes]

Capt. Edward John Smith

Capt. Frederick Benteen

Captain Wm. Kidd

 

[2jakes]

 

[2jakes]

Fred Merkle

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Honus Wagner

 

[Fading Fast]

Jimmy Walker mayor of NYC from 1926-1932



August Belmont - a whole bunch of stuff, but (to me) most importantly, founder of Belmont Racetrack and the Belmont Stakes (the third jewel of the Triple Crown)

 

[vitanola]

August Belmont - a whole bunch of stuff, but (to me) most importantly, founder of Belmont Racetrack and the Belmont Stakes (the third jewel of the Triple Crown)
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