10 The Most Beautiful Women Of 1900s Edwardian Era
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period in Great Britain is the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long term trends from the 1890s to the First World War. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era. The Edwardian period is sometimes imagined as a romantic golden age of long summer afternoons and garden parties and this era saw some of the most beautiful ladies or we can say beauty was on its height.
#1 Gladys Cooper (1888-1971)
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime. she was nominated for three Academy Awards.
#2 Lily Elsie (1886-1962)
Lily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow. Elsie became one of the most photographed women of Edwardian times.
#3 Marie Doro (1882-1956)
She was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.
#4Maude Fealy (1883-1971)
She was an American stage and silent film actress who survived into the talkie era. Fealy appeared in her first silent film in 1911 for Thanhouser Studios, making another eighteen between then and 1917, Fealy had some commercial success as a playwright-performer. She co-wrote The Red Cap with Grant Stewart.
#5 Minnie Brown (1883-?)
Minnie Brown was an actress and performer who spent from 1902 to 1918 entertaining in Europe, Russia, and the Far East. She was part of the circle of very successful African-American women performers who were based in Russia.
#6 Geneviève Lantelme (1882-1911)
She was a French stage actress, socialite, fashion icon, and courtesan. Considered by her contemporaries to be one of the most beautiful women of the Belle Epoque. She bore a resemblance to American actress Ethel Barrymore.
#7 Aida Overton Walker (1880-1914)
Aida Overton Walker also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as “The Queen of the Cakewalk”, was an African-American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George Walker. She appeared with her husband and his performing partner Bert Williams, and in groups such as Black Patti’s Troubadours.
#8 Ethel Clayton (1882-1966)
She was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton’s screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. Her pretty brunette looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson.
#9 Evelyn Nesbit (1884-1967)
Florence Evelyn Nesbit known professionally as Evelyn Nesbit, was a popular American chorus girl and artists’ model. Her career began in her early teens in Philadelphia and continued in New York, where she posed for a cadre of respected artists of the era, James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church, and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a “Gibson Girl”.
#10 Julia James (1890-1964)
Julia James was an actress who was born in London and began her career at the Aldwych Theatre under Seymour Hicks, playing there Supper Belle in “Blue Bell” (1905). She appeared at the Gaiety Theatre in “The Girls of Gottenburg”, “Havana” and “Our Miss Gibbs
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