Picture No | 11107958 |
Date | 1930 |
Description | Corinne Griffith impersonates speed -The Lilies of the Field |
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Corinne Griffith (1894-1979), dancer and actress known as the 'orchid lady of the screen' pictured in a scene from the Alexander Korda film, 'The Lilies of the Field.' She plays a show-girl who takes part in a modernistic ballet mechanique and, dressed in silver tights, represented the figure of Speed on a radiator cap of a gigantic automobile. The men were dressed to represent robots.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 1 January 1930 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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