Credits
Every face, its licence, and where we got it.
The strip on the front page is 24 portraits from the studio era. All of them are public domain, none of the people in them are affiliated with this site, and each one links back to the Wikimedia Commons record the licence was read from — so you can check that too.
Get back to the board →How a face gets on the site. Public-domain portraits from Wikimedia Commons. Every entry carries the licence string read off the file's own Commons record and a link to that record — the site renders both. A portrait whose record does not say public domain is never downloaded.
Buster Keaton
Public domain
Unknown author Unknown author
C.1920s
Charlie Chaplin
Public domain
Strauss-Peyton Studio
1921
Louise Brooks
Public domain
Unknown author Unknown author
circa 1927 date QS:P,+1927-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Rudolph Valentino
Public domain
Donald Biddle Keyes
published September 1922
Clara Bow
Public domain
Harold Dean Carsey (1886-1947)
1932
Lon Chaney
Public domain
Jack Freulich (1880–1936)
circa 1920 date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Harold Lloyd
Public domain
Daniel Blum
1953-01-01
Theda Bara
Public domain
Orval Hixon
1921 date QS:P571,+1921-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Douglas Fairbanks
Public domain
Harris & Ewing
between 1905 and 1945 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Mary Pickford
Public domain
Rufus Porter Moody
between 1910 and 1920 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Gloria Swanson
Public domain
Albert Witzel
1917-04-12
Greta Garbo
Public domain
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (work for hire)
1931
Bela Lugosi
Public domain
Fortepan adományozó SALY NOÉMI
1912
Boris Karloff
Public domain
. The original uploader was Wikiwatcher1 at English Wikipedia .
1 September 2010 (original upload date)
Marlene Dietrich
Public domain
Marlene_Dietrich_in_No_Highway_(1951).jpg : Twentieth Century Fox derivative work: TonyPolar ( talk )
1951
Lillian Gish
Public domain
Bain News Service; Uploaded by Calliopejen ; Edited by jjron .
1921-06-29
Anna May Wong
Public domain
Paramount photo
circa 1935 date QS:P,+1935-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Josephine Baker
Public domain
Studio Harcourt
1940
Rita Hayworth
Public domain
Columbia Pictures , photograph by Ned Scott
1947
Barbara Stanwyck
Public domain
Whitey Schafer
1950
Humphrey Bogart
Public domain
Published by The Minneapolis Tribune-photo from Warner Bros.
While the film was released in 1940 the Minneapolis Tribune didn't publish it until January 29, 1950--this is the date stamp that can be read.
Bette Davis
Public domain
Studio Publicity
1935-12-31
Myrna Loy
Public domain
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Eric Carpenter (1909-1976)
1941
Carole Lombard
Public domain
Photograph by Paul Hesse (1896 – 1973)
1940-01