Evelyn Nesbit in early 1930's

[@AfridiZindabad]

The look in her eyes is that of a trauma survivor, exultant and healing.

[@williambaylis1875]

Right at the end when she lifts her arms and smiles....the Evelyn of 1905 shows through. She was a beauty

[@ColleyatFlak]

Excellent retrieval from history. Her story haunts. She looks like she was a pretty cool person.

[@puruburu]

i wrote the book American Eve and have family photos and saw films from that period in her life it is Evelyn.

[@elizabethhamrick3184]

I absolutely LOVED your book!

[@stwads]

Thank you!

[@emactootlaht]

I loved your book!!!

[@kate1903]

Reading your book now

[@Delmo5]

Loved the book!

[@annedaily8100]

She really sounds happy!!! I'm glad to see it for she went through sooooo much!! Thank you for sharing this friend!

[@NitaHair]

If there's a footage video of Evelyn Nesbit full singing back in the 1930s, she must've been a very famous celebrity even in her 50s. That's definitely rare. I love her happy eyes while singing.

[@6lr6ak6]

Yes she's got nice happy eyes,

[@englishandcompositionlearn6745]

I feel like this little song is really coming from the heart for her. Here she is in middle age, finally free from men like Harry Thaw and Stanford White; free from her mother and all the BS she was put through from 14-17. It's almost as if this little number proclaims her emancipation. I love this and it puts a smile on my face every time I hear it.

[@6lr6ak6]

I agree, wasn't she just so lovely,

[@nellievaughn7755]

How old would she have been here?

[@englishandcompositionlearn6745]

About 52, I think@@nellievaughn7755

[@DruzenjeSplit-nn2um]

​​@@nellievaughn7755around 50

[@ahdbw8494]

@@nellievaughn7755 mid to late 40s, though she didn’t look it.

[@JoMarieM]

Evelyn still had some personal charm even at this age. If she could act and sing this well as an older woman, I can only imagine how endearing she must have been as a teenager!

[@ninaj6051]

I saw how she looked as she was getting older, and she's for me the most beautiful in her 60s. Maybe even one of the most good looking women I saw who were of that age.

[@grabit1]

Sorry, doubters. This is Evelyn Nesbit. Her face, figure, and her teeth, just aging naturally like anyone else's after living life for nearly 30 years after watching Harry K. Thaw ("from Pittsburgh!") blow a man's head off. Look at her publicity photos with Joan Collins twenty years later. Same progression of aging. Same lady. Thanks, Christopher. This is remarkably well-preserved film.

[@grabit1]

grabit1: And it amazes me that people think cosmetic dentistry 110 years ago was exactly the same as it is today. Most people were lucky to keep their teeth at all.

[@The-Portland-Daily-Blink]

That was definitely Evelyn Nesbit. Poor thing...she had a really hard life...

[@morganalabeille5004]

There’s a longer version of this video where she’s introduced as Evelyn Nesbit

[@grabitt.4013]

@@morganalabeille5004 Yes, there is.

[@jeffcampbell5755]

American Eve by Paula Ubururu is a wonderful book if anyone wants to read about Evelyn Nesbit.

[@huntingfashiondolls3307]

Thanks,i really would love to know all i can about her!!! Need to do some research.

[@kennedygirl3698]

She's older people.THIS IS EVELYN NESBIT! She looks great,she was born in 1884.Do the math.I wish youtube was like facebook in the way that I could download hundreds of pictures to prove this is e\Evelyn Nesbit.

[@kathymartin7724]

Wow. I remember seeing the girl in the red velvet swing. With Joan Collins. There's a picture on Google of her with miss Joan. The movie was done in the 1950s.

[@kathymartin7724]

Thank you.

[@Rebel9668]

I had never heard of this lady until watching her story on a youtube channel called "They Got Away With Murder". It was there I learned that she was "the girl on the red velvet swing". A rather tragic story. I don't know how much she's hiding of herself behind this performance, but I'd like to think she really did feel this well after all she had went through in her youth.

[@clevereagle9327]

"Because I'm no man's momma now" -- love it!

[@BooRadleyTube]

The lyric is "no man's woman." She actually was a "man's momma" at this point - her son Russell would have been in his twenties.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

@@BooRadleyTube She is singing "Because I'm no man's mama now." You can look up the lyrics to the song and they are the same that she is singing.

[@belbras]

Thank you for sharing such amazing video; such an icon figure, she looks much real, without all the glamorized and idealized view from then magazines, post cards and illustrations. Still a beauty but in a more realistic view; still, let's not forget that she was THE face of her time, the acclaimed Gibson Girl feature. Pity she lived in a time and a culture where teenager and women were quite abused by men and there was little support from society on protect them.

[@TheQuintanaRoo]

Belbras well said

[@dipakdeshpande5453]

She was supremely beautiful,in her days. Blessed were people who had seen her, in those days.

[@davehansen4537]

How many 50 year olds look this young ? But she sure does look exactly like Evelyn.

[@nancy9471]

46

[@christinash2235]

Uh black and white photography hid numerous flaws. That's one of the reasons silent film stars looked so perfect and angelic. In the Golden Age of Hollywood the "silver screen" added a lustrous sheen to any actresses skin. She easily looks like a woman in her 40s to me, and likely the lack of coloration hides any fine lines or small wrinkles.

[@fabiogonzo4131]

@@christinash2235 Comunque più bella che mai.Una grande bellezza interiore.

[@dalehoward8352]

Still lovely

[@BGinRS]

She is adorable.

[@Marmarless1]

Evelyn was 5'3", slight build, chipped tooth--and that's what she looks like here. Other distinguishing features were her chin, lips, and hips. Hips not visible here but the other features match. I have seen rare pics of Evelyn from the late 20's and she DID look like this. The date would appear correct also as Evelyn in 1933 had divorced (finally) her husband, Jack Clifford, and that's probably what this song was in reference to. Lastly the singer refers to herself as "Miss Nesbit". It's her.

[@6lr6ak6]

She's Beautiful.

[@kayjay2176]

I do not believe Harry knocked teeth out, the dental work that White had done for her was undone by Thaw's dentist. In the film clip you can hear that.beautiful voice she has. Unfortunately, that venue and the accompanying band are playing so fast she hardly has time to breathe properly during the song. I am very glad to see her-that beautiful hair and eyes and her great stage presence.

[@wrdray3421]

It's def Evelyn Nesbit - at 44 or 45.

[@vallennes]

theres something so modern about this woman and her looks and mannerisms. It's a shame most of her movies are lost, I'd love to see more videos of her.

[@ANFeuerstahl]

Those eyes... Man! Those eyes !

[@VampsAreLovee]

Loved your book! I actually just finished reading it

[@tauntonlake]

This reminds me of Miss Edie in Grey Gardens. She looks like she might be just a little bit cray cray by this point in her life. But who could blame her, I guess. She did go through a lot.

[@jeffpagan7735]

I wish I could buy one of her sculptures

[@Vic1206]

She's adorable!!!!

[@edantes2006]

Marmarless1 is correct. Also, you can google "evelyn nesbit edwardian" and there is a picture of her smiling some years earlier where you can clearly see the dental situation. Part of the disconnect with some here might be in comparing this video with their mental imagery of the famous Evelyn photos. Keep in mind - she was a teen in many of those classic shots! Compare photos of yourself at 15 and 45 :) @ Christopher - thank you for uploading this.

[@christinash2235]

Plus there are several photos of her in the 1920s where she looks very similar to how she does here. I don't see what is so hard to believe that this a woman in her 30s or 40s. She's obviously older than a 20-something, and at certain angles the age under her eyes does show up a bit. Black and white photography was miraculous in hiding flaws, especially to do with the skin. Anyone who pays attention surely has noticed that as digital technology has taken sharper and sharper pictures and video, that actors visibly have more wrinkles now in movies or tv than they did even in the 1980s and 1990s. There's something to be said for the softening of reality in earlier forms of visual technology.

[@pattylopez1834]

@@christinash2235 I don't see it

[@harmony2225]

Freedom indeed my dear Florence. I love you!

[@kimsmith-dhs-ssc5623]

If you which the longer version of this video, you can hear the announcer introduce her as Evelyn Nesbit.

[@zennamasteasmr6462]

She was brilliant!!!!

[@checkyourhead9]

I wish there was more video or audio or her telling her story.

[@puruburu]

Say what you like, she is still compelling at age 45 (ish)

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

That was clearly a rough 24 years from the Trial of the [first half of the] Century. But la Nesbit was clearly a survivor. Good for her!

[@AnnLippert1]

I was watching the Rose Marie documentary on Amazon Prime called "wait for the laugh" and she says Nesbit gave her her stage name "Baby Rose Marie". and here I am!! Gosh I love KZbin!!

[@macskaparkwood3747]

I agree that the woman performing is Evelyn Nesbit.

[@alexsander6107]

still very beautiful even with age

[@edantes2006]

"During the 1920s and '30s, she abused morphine and alcohol, and her career slid downhill. She began appearing in burlesque houses around the country." LA Times 12-Dec 2005. This would be a video from later in that period. Thankfully, in older age she turned to art, ceramics and sculpting.

[@gingerlord4983]

She was addicted to Morphine and Alcohol.She didn't abuse them.Addiction which Stanford White got her hooked on!

[@VampsAreLovee]

This is Evelyn, there's a ton of older pictures of Evelyn on Pinterest and they look exactly the same to this video.

[@rees276]

I saw The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing when I was very young and I've been fascinated by the story since then. I loved Ragtime and American Eve and it's great to see this actual film of Evelyn but I thought Stanford White paid to have her front teeth fixed.

[@maurice2657]

Hiya, everyone here seems to have overlooked, providing they've read the book, that Harry Thaw had here dental work undo because it was paid for by Stanford White as you rightly pointed out. Goes to show how mad he was. Hope this helps,

[@rees276]

maurice browne I suppose she was lucky he didn't do the dental reversal himself with his fists.

[@crees1445]

In the film there isn't (as I remember) a close-up of Joan Collins until she has had her front tooth fixed. The whole movie is in wide screen shots - it is quite odd.

[@alexa.davronov1537]

For her fifties she looks very well.

[@reggiebenson9172]

Evelyn - you're such a sweetheart! This note from 2023. By the way, does anyone know if she was the 1904 Prudential Girl?

[@grabit1]

This is indeed, most certainly and positively Evelyn Nesbit. Look at her nose in profile when she turns. That's the kicker. And she looked pretty good for 50. If I'd been around 80 years ago, I might have helped her get her teeth fixed . . . . . again.

[@nomeyodomar]

grabit1 with those teeth?

[@grabit1]

You obviously weren't a dentist 110 years ago.

[@grabitt.4013]

@@nomeyodomar Stanford White paid to have them fixed. That's what you see in her famous photos. Dentistry then wasn't what it is today.

[@zaker721]

OMG it IS her and I'm hearing her voice. Poor woman, what a life she had. It never pays to marry a lunatic.

[@SlimKeith11]

She was 46! She looks great-her skin is great, her attitude is young -it's just the teeth. Take a look at pictures of women during that time period-especially women her age-she looks very young in comparison and not at all matronly like most women did back then.

[@Ironwind1972]

So much irony in your statement. She did marry a lunatic to get paid.

[@matthewg.rhodes]

Yes, just ask Melania Trump.

[@zaker721]

@@SlimKeith11 She looks normal. All this “teeth” fetish is just another way to show off how much money we have and separate “winners” from “losers” We humans are a nasty lot, unless we really fight it. I also thought White paid to have her teeth “fixed” whatever that meant at the turn of the 20th century. I agree with you though, Evelyn was always a good looking young woman from a world before people ingested any of the chemicals and growth hormones we are subjected to each day. Nothing wrong with being a “matron” though. How did you or I or anybody, on this thread, get here without matrons? Sure, let’s appeal to the pedos, by all means, and making any indicators of a lived adulthood seem like faults and flaws…hey, just like old Stanny White liked ‘em, childishly thin, un-“used” and under-aged.

[@zaker721]

@@Ironwind1972 Life is hard now and was even harder then. At least we have the fraying threads of the safety nets the WWII generation tried to provide us with. Living safely and warmly with food is a great motivator. Take away 90% of the viable job opportunities half of the eating, breathing, shelter needing, human race needs and people will do risky things to have a life that isn’t endless toil and precarity…so yep, she took a chance on one of the best options her world afforded her. The guy’s lunacy and the lack of accountability that rich people are afforded in society gave the poor, beautiful child more misfortune than she imagined. If it truly HAD paid, this video would not exist.

[@revellifevideo]

Can anyone tell me what is the background of thus performance. This is so precious. She is such a survivor

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

I wish some of her movies were available but I think they are all lost.

[@ChrisRubeo]

ChildOfThe1970s I’ve tried everywhere and I’ve never been able to find anything besides a few stills.

[@jaowashingtune8729]

in ragtime she was offered 25k thats 750 k today, she wanted one million or 29 million today.

[@VampsAreLovee]

Simply amazing. May I ask where you found this footage?

[@Theaddora]

She ain't no Vivien Leigh.

[@alexsander6107]

when i was young i had the same level of beauty as vivien leigh

[@Theaddora]

@@alexsander6107 yeah. Me too.

[@puruburu]

thanks Vamps -- from paula

[@Gl6619]

You can tell she came from vaudeville…the music and her singing is definitely styled from the 1910’s

[@RoryVanucchi]

Interesting stuff.. Great post

[@Superbaldyboy]

She doesn't really look like the gal in all the artists pics or other videos, but then again she did have a rough time. Those teeth don't look like the ones in her stills, but I will go Google some more. Interesting how they went to a club and just filmed. You can her all the crowd noise as she's trying to sing. Imagine having to perform in those conditions with no sound system? Amazing. Thanks for posting.

[@jayteadesigns]

It's definitely her. I have been intrigued with the story about Stanford White and her and Harry Thaw, and there are many pictures of Evelyn online. I was just wondering what the name of the song she sings is. Anyone?

[@jayteadesigns]

Yeah, what a woman she was! Thanks for answering my question. J

[@jeffcampbell5755]

+jayteadesigns I'm No Man's Woman Now

[@kylepwagner4853]

Sounds like it's about the time "Prodigal Days" came out.

[@deborahpaul1411]

You can forget about that.

[@kylepwagner4853]

@@deborahpaul1411 I actually have a copy! She kind of rambles, but interesting to hear her version of events.

[@johnking6252]

Wonderful representation of the times, just my opinion of course! Thx. 👍

[@muffassa6739]

I never saw this before, I always wondered what happened to her

[@NotADood]

I don't know what it is but she's got a lot of charistma.

[@edantes2006]

google "evelyn nesbit sculpture" - there's a pic of her sitting at a table probably 20 years or so down the line from this video --- this video is her - probably at the age of 45-50

[@Cjga1114]

Indeed

[@diamondtiara84]

She looked really good for her age, as well as natural, unlike today's artificial (and unsuccessful) attempts at trying to appear youthful. Good song too, reminds me of one Sophie Tucker sang.

[@chrisanthony7481]

It's Evelyn.. There's nothing complicated about identifying her here! Now, everyone get back to work!

[@VillsvinJeger]

LOL You caught me!!

[@nancystevens7447]

This is sooo sad to watch,she was used by men and women her entire life! The “It Girl” of the 20th century and she ended up addicted to both drugs and alcohol. Here she sings in some dive for tourists who could care less about her story or her at all. She died penniless and in some cheap flop house. She was the model of most great artists of her early life,her end was sad!

[@Futurelight-gv5dn]

She just looked like any other women in their 50s.

[@crees1445]

I thought Stanford White paid for her teeth to be straightened.

[@grabit1]

He had them "fixed." Orthodontics existed back then, but that's not what she had. It was 110 years ago. Nothing lasts forever.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

He did, but Thaw had the dental caps removed.

[@LassiePlayDead]

Good God! THANK YOU! for posting this! Who? How? Where? What is this?!

[@ellyreginald6546]

She eventually became a ceramic and sculpture artist and taught art in California. Not much of a singer. Her real talents were the visual arts. Shame it took her so long to get there.

[@atomikotita]

Rare find.

[@sliphorn88h]

Not worth getting shot over

[@TheJazsinger]

That means she was 46 years old. She doesn't look it. I'd say more like 30.

[@martakheyfets2235]

Sylvia Carlson I know plenty of forty year olds who look like that.

[@su20mm00er]

Is there a movie about her? I think Dakota Johnson should play her.

[@silverpslm]

My goodness, I wouldn't think there would be this clear of a video of her. Much older now of course. Wish there could have have been a video of her younger years. Doing Ragtime, and wanted to see just what the girl on the sing looked like.

[@monterrellford6980]

Thaw killed over her? Wtf???!!!

[@janewaldo5869]

She was 20 then: here she's 45. We all age.

[@nebby_ya_boi257]

This is the woman who was in love with Stanford white when he was murder in 1914

[@marilynwade9448]

Cute❤

[@SilverScreenJean]

Stanford paid to have her teeth fix- why do they look so messed up? She aged well but her teeth threw me off for a moment.

[@grabit1]

SilverScreenJean: Me too, but then I remembered how much orthodontic work I've had, and had to repeat. This was still early in the age of cosmetic dentistry.

[@SilverScreenJean]

grabit1 I hear you. I was a kid that needed braces as well. Her teeth were not awful before they were fixed. But being a model for artists that dabbled in various mediums and that being her main source of income, I can see why she took Stanford up on the offer of getting them improved.

[@grabit1]

SilverScreenJean: I hear you back.

[@SilverScreenJean]

:-) ps- YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE GREAT SAMMY DAVIS JR!

[@jeffcampbell5755]

+SilverScreenJean Harry Thaw, in a fit of jealous rage had the earlier work undone that had been paid for by White and then had it redone by his own dentist. This only further weakened the tooth.

[@CH84015]

What's up with her teeth ?

[@josephciolino2865]

They couldn't do SOMETHING about that front tooth!?!??!

[@jeffpagan7735]

What is she saying? Paramore? Lover now? Mama now?

[@NYdrone]

You are onto something here. My biggest point of contention here are her eyes and eyebrows. Everything else appears to check out. I am conceding the other facial features. Like I said, I am not attacking anyone's judgement. I am man enough to admit when I'm wrong. I wish Christopher would upload the full video.

[@johnloftus8920]

😄👌✌👍

[@jmars309]

Beautiful woman a really Modern woman far too advanced her time.

[@mcmpereira1]

she wasn't all that....

[@NYdrone]

I'm sorry you think that it's her. If I'm wrong, please prove it. Some media outlets will go to great lengths to sell or license bogus media. This also looks like it's from the 40s, not the 30s. I hope you didn't pay money for this archive. I hate seeing people get ripped off.

[@amnakhan6124]

She looks nothing like her pictures.... perhaps she is older?...

[@margoengels3887]

I think she's about 45 in this clip.

[@funkystyle7249]

By this time Evelyn was a struggling artist. She had cut ties with the Thaw Family and their money. Plus that haircut and bangs didn't suit her face, I would say she looks good/ pretty for her age but she didn't have that glamorous sharp facial features like Joan Crawford that would make her standout past her prime. Apparently after a while she gave up this lifestyle and went to raise her son's children and did some Ceramics teaching in the 1950's, nobody from the newer gen of 60's knew her or her past but she says their grandparents knew and she would gossip with them about the past scandals.

[@fyte4luv23]

she was 45+ here, she was extremely hot in her teens though.

[@NYdrone]

This is not Evelyn Nesbit. Not even remotely.

[@armchairjudge]

Most women start to go south after 30 and after having kids. There is a change that takes place. Just look at all the ladies in their 40s-50s-60's all grandmas. With very few exceptions. Some absolutely gorgeous women just lose their beauty with age. Same goes for men. IF people could only see what some older people USED TO look like, they wouldnt believe it. One example was Elvis. As soon as he hit 40, he turned into an obese man. At 42, dropped dead. If people don't maintain their physical activity and eat well ALL their lives, inevitably they will lose their good looks as they age. Fact.

[@celiacurry3058]

Good as a model but singing??????

[@NYdrone]

No, it is not her. I don't understand why people refuse to accept this fact.

[@NYdrone]

This is not Evelyn Nesbit. This is someone singing about her. I wish Christopher would either remove or rename this video. He has no evidence to support his claim.

[@6lr6ak6]

Listen at 2:30 she's announced as Evelyn Nesbit kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJWmkIOBgtGIh9E

[@asweetcitywoman]

She was not old at this point, but she certainly wasn’t pretty.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

She was nearly 50. Her teeth are jacked up, but I believe it was her husband who did it.

[@kylecreed2748]

I can’t believe this was almost 100 years ago!!

[@obscuremedia]

Sorry, this woman is not Evelyn Nesbit. The facial features are all wrong and the math does not work out. Nesbit was born 1884 and if that video was from say 1934, Nesbit would have been 50 years old. This girl is not fifty. I have no idea who this is, but it is not Evelyn. Also there was a lot of controversy over Evelyn's 'talent'. She was not a good actress nor singer. She was passable as a dancer. It was her charm and her exotic beauty that was raved about.

[@grabit1]

You need to see your optometrist.

[@dnice4335]

I also came expecting THE MOST beautiful girl in the world.............not even close to what I imagined

[@veronicaalmeda8014]

This was Evelyn. It is all too obvious plus in a longer video you can hear the annoucer name her. You might have forgotten that Evelyn was a junkie, she was hooked to cocaine and heroine for a long time. Those things plus other struggles take a toll on your body. She still looked great, there's a picture where she is in her 60s and she looked pretty good, smooth skin and smooth lips.

[@obscuremedia]

I agree. It's like Lynette Perry from the show "Ragtime" getting up and singing about being Evelyn. The introduction by the woman in the full video sounds more like it's a 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' thing here, not the actual woman. Saying that the nose, eyebrows and such are the same as Nesbit is like saying ears could be used to positively identify Anna Anderson as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. It seems to me the song was more a mocking thing, not the truth.

[@gingerlord4983]

It's Evelyn.Good grief.

[@XxowendanxX]

She dumped the poor dope from the fireworks company and he was so broken up he started blowing up fire houses with Colehouse Walker Jr.

[@davidgarione2206]

She's got a rotten tooth. Still pretty, though.

[@deborahleone4351]

Not so much the beauty by then.... pity

[@Headspace101]

She wasn’t attractive yet became a ‘super model.’ 😯

[@jeffpagan7735]

She was an awful singer

[@dalehoward8352]

Jeff Pagan She was really a showgirl, not a real singer. Showgirl at that time in early 1900s meant she had to be on stage ,pose and look pretty. Showgirls were meant to be more as time went on.

[@ChrisRubeo]

She was, indeed.