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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.

Ruth Breton (1902 - ????), American violinist Daughter of Oliver Martin and Meta Alfreda (Hursh) Jones Married Richard G. Knott, of Louisville, May 17, 1919 prabook.com/web/ruth.breton/1094366 S. also photo in the Evening star. [volume], August 25, 1929, Page 15 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1929-08-25/ed-...

Ruth Breton was her professional name. She was still alive when her husband Richard G. Knott died in 1970, s. books.google.com/books?id=NxlbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA112

According to www.findagrave.com/memorial/192086351/ she was born in 1900 and died in 1993

Ira L. Hill was a famous New York fashion, society and theatrical photographer of his era. broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/ira-l-hill

B-59 Thank you for the information on Breton.

The former Bonnie Glass. See

another one:
here's another Bain photo by the celebrity and fashion photographer Ira (Ira Lawrence) Hill:
More on Hill and his work:
broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/ira-l-hill

Thanks swanq and artolog for making the connection between this image and the images of Bonnie Glass. We will add more details when we update.