What a lovely face and a charming smile. A surprisingly modern look actually. Maybe a better looking version of Cameron Diaz perhaps?Meet Agnes Ayres who became the envy of every jazz era girl by starring as the love interest of Rudolph Valentino not once, but twice in The Sheik and The Son Of The Sheik which is probably where this image is taken from.
She also starred in Cecil B DeMille's 1923 The Ten Commandments as 'The Outcast'.
The Great Depression and the 'talkies' proved a double blow to Agnes who lost her fortune in the stock market crash and her career quickly thereafter. With a daughter to support she supplemented her spotty acting opportunities with a side career in real estate.
Agnes died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1940.
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