Her thirties films include the Joe E. Brown vehicle, Fireman Save My Child (1932), the first of his three baseball themed comedies, The Old Dark House (1932), where Lilian is teamed with a wonderful cast, including Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart (who looks marvelous throughout the entire spooky goings on), Charles Laughton, and Melvyn Douglas, Pick-Up (1933) with George Raft and Sylvia Sidney, Double Harness (1933), and Affairs of a Gentleman (1934).
While not the female lead, probably her best known performance was in Gary Cooper's The Westerner (1940). Lilian played legendary stage actress Lillie Langtry. By the fifties her film career was over, with some fifty performances to her credit. Lilian died on January 25th 1991, in Reseda, California.
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Picture Play magazine - September 1931
Cinelandia magazine - May 1931
New Movie Magazine - December 1932A monocle, who was her manager?
Publicity still from Pick- Up
Frame grabs from Double Harness and The Old Dark House
The picture that always come up whenyou "goggle" Lilian Bond - and for good reason.
Lilian Bond - What do you think - Allure?
4 comments:
She's lovely. The monocle was probably part of a European Berber-esque look. Ginger Rogers wore one in "42nd Street", and the look had brief popularity in the early 30s.
She is so beautiful. I must admit
I had never seen any photos of her
that did her justice. I hadn't
thought she was very appealing.
Seeing these photos the phrase
"hubba hubba' comes to mind.
She was stunning, with a beauty that still translates very well to modern eyes. She could act too--I liked her in both The Old Dark House and Double Harness, especially the latter where she showed a fine talent for Gail Patrick-style bitchery. It is a mystery why certain careers never make the leap to bigger things.
Mmm, Vey Allure:)
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