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#1 2014-05-02 11:20:08
- CaptainMaddox
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Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
Hello
Whenver I see pictures of the big stars from the 20s or 30s like Rudolph Valentino, Atonio Merino, Buster Keaton, Roman Novarro there's always pictures of their side profile but never of the stars today or the 50s/60s why was it a thing back then? Yeah I get it good looking people also look good from the side (jaw/chin/flat forehead and all that) but why was it a thing back then?
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#2 2014-05-02 12:00:45
- Worried Man
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
Hmmm... good question.
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#3 2014-05-07 16:10:09
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
Isn´t it just because today´s male ´´stars´´ are so fucking ugly any which ways?
I came up to see her sometimes.
#5 2014-05-12 08:40:23
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
I came up to see her sometimes.
#6 2014-05-12 08:44:26
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
PS Just looked up Mr Murphy - ´twas as I feared - yet another epicene kid-star - and one who would look far better in this fr5ock than I ever did 
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I came up to see her sometimes.
#7 2014-05-12 09:02:20
- chatsworth osborne jr.
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
My assumption is something about minimizing ethnographic traits.
#9 2014-05-12 10:13:02
- Bop
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
They just have sex tapes now.
#10 2014-05-13 07:48:53
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
I came up to see her sometimes.
#12 2014-05-13 08:06:24
- Butters
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
Well, if there were any slight imperfections/irregularities that would make the face even the slightest bit asymmetrical, it wouldn't show up on a side view. There was little if any plastic surgery; and someone like Buster Keaton was a bit of a bruiser and probably this might have shown.
This is just a complete guess - in a way, it doesn't make sense because people didn't expect photographic "perfection" back then either.
Maybe it's a carry over from the 19th century obsession with the so-called "classic/ideal profile"?
Or maybe it comes from those black and white silhouettes people used to get done?
Or, it was just the convention - and people will look back at our photographic conventions and wonder what on earth we were thinking.
Prolly none of the above, lol.
#13 2014-05-13 11:03:36
- Dudley Clarke
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Re: Actors of the 20s/30s and their side profile
I think that there were many better looking male stars then than now - especially in the days of silent movies - appearance was all. Moreover, there were many more Scotch, Irish, English, Welsh, French and German Hollywood actors than there are now. Think: George Brent (Irish); Ronnie Colman (English); Maurice Chevalier (French); Jack Buchanan (Scotch); Clive Brook (English - possibly of Jewish descent); Clark Gable (German); Errol Flynn (Ozzie) and so on. Now the stars look either like perpetual kids or thugs.
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I came up to see her sometimes.