alicebrady

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Brady

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Thank you both. I'll add a summary to this catalog record and those of the linked images.

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Brady

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"Alice Brady's Skating Cap" is one of several portraits made of the actress Alice Brady over the years by Ira (Ira Lawrence) Hill (1877-1947). "Hill opened a New York studio ca.1905; 'the Cecil Beaton of his time in New York,' he photographed the wealthy and socially prominent in his studio and documented social events around the country. He photographed celebrities such as Helen Hayes and Tallulah Bankhead, and published frequently in magazines. He married a succession of five debutantes." [1] "Hill was the most important theatrical portraitist from 1913 to 1917, and a significant portraitist from 1917 to 1924, yet his aesthetic interests increasingly fixed on fashion. In full-figure images--which supplanted the Gibson Head in his posing in 1912--dress mattered as much as personality." [2]  

Thanks for the links and for providing information about the photographer. We can add to the description when we next update it.

She reminds me of a young Linda Ronstadt.

Grace George (1879–1961) was a well known actress, director, producer and writer. She both produced and starred in Major Barbara, by George Bernard Shaw, which had it's U.S. premier at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway on December 9, 1915.

Grace George (real name: Grace Dougherty) married producer William A. Brady (1863–1950) in 1899, and was stepmother to his daughter, Alice Brady (1892–1939), (real name: Mary Rose Brady). A son William Brady Jr. (1900–1935) was born in 1900. [1] [2] [3] [4]
 
There is also a photograph in the LOC Collection on Flickr of Grace George dressed in her role as Mrs. Cynthia Karslake in The New York Idea. The play opened September 28, 1915, at the Playhouse Theatre and was played in repertory with Major Barbara.

                                       
 

This is fantastic. I love getting to see these peeks into the past!

Pixel Wrangler: Thanks for the additional info on Grace George. We will add to the record.

NYT pictorial section of Jan 2, 1916, page 11 had another picture of her in Major Barbara costume. memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&... or memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1916/191601/19160102/00...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Brady "Alice Brady (born Mary Rose Brady, November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress."