Costume designer Gerdago (Austria, c1930). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Petta Frederick and Wilhelm Dieterle in Das Schweigen im Walde (AKA The Silence in the Forest, Germany, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1929). From the Taussig film stills collection.

A scene from Premiere (Austria, Geza Von Bolvary, 1937). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Anna Sten and Anton Walbrook in Salto Mortale (Germany, Ewald André Dupont, 1931). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Director George Stevens with Katharine Hepburn on the set of Alice Adams (USA, 1935). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Cecil B DeMille (USA, c1930). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Errol Flynn in hair and make-up for The Adventures of Robin Hood (USA, 1938), with canine friend at his feet. From the Taussig film stills collection.

A musical sequence from Gold Diggers of 1935 (USA, Busby Berkeley, 1935). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Marlene Dietrich in a still from Blonde Venus (USA, Josef von Sternberg, 1932). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Ingrid Bergman in a still from the film Bränningar (Sweden, Ivar Johansson, 1935). From the Taussig film stills collection.