This is the launch of a series on Once Upon a Screen that will serve as entertainment in its simplest form – images. If you’ve visited this blog before you know how much I love them. There will be no rhyme or reason for the topics chosen for each post in the Follies series to be published every Friday. All I can say is each will be classic eye candy, galleries galore and follies of fotos.
To kick off the “Friday Foto Follies” series here’s a pictorial tribute to the Ziegfeld Follies, which birthed many a future movie star since it was first mounted in 1907.
Vintage Follies:
Fields, Rogers, Lorraine, Cantor, Kelly
Fanny Brice
1931
1931
Up in lights at the New Amsterdam, New York
1918
Lace Ballet 1922 Follies
1911
Stanwyck, Ziegfeld Girl
From 1913 Follies
Billie Dove
1915
1908
Nell Brinkley Girls – Follies of 1908
Dolores Costello
Fanny Brice, Follies 1910
Paulette Goddard
1915
1910
1922
1927
Billie Burke
1917
1919
Ziegfeld with Ziegfeld Girls
1936
1912
Ziegfeld and Cantor
1917
1915
Ad
Marion Davies
Tallulah Follies
Louise Brooks c. 1925 Follies
Program
Marquee, New Amsterdam
May 20, 1931 – Ziegfeld and the Follies Girls
1924
1908 Program Back Cover
Ruth Etting in Follies of 1927
1917
1915
Follies Girls Club 1930s
1912
Once upon a screen... 
Aurora, I’m with you on images. Any excuse!
Love your Follies gallery. Didn’t know Tallulah had been in the Follies. Must have been 40s or 50s as Carol Haney is listed in the cast.
The image for sheet music of ‘I can’t get started’ is stunning.
Nice too to see Ruth Etting and Helen Morgan side by side.
Any excuse, indeed! A regular, weekly post will get it out of my system. 😉 I’m glad you liked this, Vienna. I love the “I Can’t Get Started” image myself. Such fun!!
Aurora
Excellent as usual, Aurora. Loved that you included Stanwyck there (whom I knew was a Ziegfeld Girl). I didn’t know that Bankhead, Brooks, or Goddard were Ziegfeld Girls too.
Tam
Thanks so much, Tam. I couldn’t find pictures of other famous Ziegfeld players, but glad I found the ones you mention. These are such fun.
Aurora