Carla Laemmle

Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle, was an American actress and dancer, famous for her appearances in the great silent and horror classics of the 1920s and 1930s. Niece of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures, she was at the time of her death at the age of 104 one of the last survivors of the silent film era.

Fun fact about ballet : She was often called the "tiny dancer" despite being a ballet icon.

In fact most ballet dancers were petite/tiny at the time on the silver screen because their male partners were tiny too.

They used the Ingenue stock character as a reference for women. Ingenue was a young and charming woman with naive manners. They also used as reference the Sylph archetype, a mythical woman creature of beauty.

Also most ballet dancer representations in paintings were tiny for logical reasons... They were girls around their pre-teen and teenage years. Look at Edgar Degas paintings.

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