Adam und Eva
1923
Marion Davies dominates this Swedish poster for the 1923 silent comedy 'Adam and Eva,' her face rendered in loose, expressive strokes that capture the Roaring Twenties perfectly. She wears a jeweled cloche hat, looking down with a mischievous smile at two tiny, blue-suited men plotting near a money bag labeled '1000.' This Art Deco design plays with scale to suggest that while the men scheme with cash, the real power belongs to the glamorous star. Interestingly, Davies was a talented comedic actress—often unfairly caricatured later in 'Citizen Kane'—and this poster highlights her charm in a 'lustspel' (comedy) directed by Robert Vignola.
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