Out Of The Past

A blog about women in the 1940's and there abouts, to help with my dissertation. Some males might pop up occasionally too! My personal blog: loveandhorror.tumblr.com Instagram: @outofthepastvintage

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#OnThisDay in 1942, Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent (#2,292,387) for a Frequency-hopping communication system which later became the basis for modern technologies like wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

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Lana Turner by the side of the pool

(Peter Stackpole. 1939?)

[gatabella]

“You want a friend? You can’t do better than Ava Gardner. Good Lord, do not ask her a question, any question, unless you want the unvarnished, peppery truth. She will level you with honesty, kindness, appreciation, open and pure love. If you deserve it, of course. Do not get on her bad side. It takes a lot to get there, but don’t get there. In the name of God - or anything.”

- playwright Tennessee Williams

[gatabella]

Ava Gardner, c.1942

"Ava Gardner, from my personal observation, is one of Hollywood’s most provocative stars. As a female, I’d like to be able to learn some of the things Ava knows, instinctively. I’ve watched her at “work.” And her technique seems to be a simple “let them do the chasing.” She’s warm, yet aloof. She invites at the same time she withdraws. She has a maddening, teasing quality that seems to promise much, yet is as elusive as quicksilver at being pinned down. Maybe that’s the secret: Looking as desirable as Ava looks, and being as hard to get."

-Sheilah Graham, Photoplay magazine, July 1949

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DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936)

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Hedy Lamarr has a moment...

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🖤

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe preparing a hot dog at a counter in New York, NY (1957). Photo by Sam Shaw.

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Hedy Lamarr. See her life in pictures here: https://www.classichollywoodcentral.com/gallery/hedy-lamarr-gallery/

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Audrey Hepburn on set

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Barbara Stanwyck - 1940

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR in BEAU BRUMMELL (1954) dir. Curtis Bernhardt

[vintageeveryday]

The glory days of Air India: Here are 18 vintage photos of indian air hostesses from the 1970s and 1980s.

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Olivia de Havilland, 1938

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Rita Hayworth

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1940s Hairstyles: Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sheridan, Betty Grable, Ava Gardner, Veronica Lake and Ann Miller.

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Yvonne de Carlo, late 1940s

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Family photo. 

1940s original vintage snapshot of a couple and their baby

https://www.etsy.com/listing/745910087/family-photo-1940s-original-vintage

[1940swomen]

That dress 👌🏽