Rick's Café Américain

The decade that began on January 1, 1940 and ended on December 31, 1949.

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July 23, 1945

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Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)

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Marilyn Monroe, 1946. Photos taken by Andre de Dienes

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17-year old Lauren Bacall in a 1942 fashion photo by Jerry Plucer Sarna for Harper’s Bazaar

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Rebecca Lepkoff. Early Morning Rush, Midtown Manhattan, 1940s

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Harold Feinstein, Father and Son By Water’s Edge, 1949.

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Close-up of the hands of Ilka Chase, CBS radio program Penthouse Party - Vogue, Oct 1941

© Horst P. Horst

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Troubled - Rafael de Soto

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Maurice Tabard

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Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers The Night We Called It A Day (written by Matt Dennis) Recorded: March 13, 1942

T’was a moon out in space But a cloud drifted over its face— You kissed me and went on your way, The night we called it a day

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Edward Hopper, Sketches and preliminaries for Nighthawks, 1942

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1946 Portraits at Howard University

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42nd Street, NYC, Photo by Louis Faurer, 1948

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Bathing suit models are shown listening to the radio on the beach, circa 1940s.

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Candid photographs like these make me recreate an animation in my head of that moment: What does her laugh sound like? Did he pull her up on his first try, or did she have to jump a couple times? The person most likely smiling behind the camera...