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+ hon. lady mitford +

[yesterdaysprint]

The Bystander, England, March 15, 1922

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The Bystander, England, September 8, 1920

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Tallulah Bankhead, 1925

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1950-51 fall and winter coats for women from Eaton [Part IV]

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[laurapetrie]

Lana Turner in Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

[vampsandflappers]

Portrait of Carole Lombard, 1920’s

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Carole Lombard, ‘Run, Girl, Run’ - 1928

6th of October 1908 - 16th of January 1942

[laurapetrie]

Joan Blondell takes a soak in Blonde Crazy (1931)

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Stylish parisiennes in The Love Parade (1929).

[yesterdaysprint]

Marion Davies by Olive Snell, 1930

[blackswaneuropa]

Diana Mitford (Mosley)

The face of fascism. Hitler called her ‘the perfect Aryan woman’ whilst A family friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her beauty, “She was the nearest thing to Botticelli’s Venus that I have ever seen”. A whirlwind of lethal charm and steely intelligence. Although she played second fiddle to her husband, Oswald Mosley, British intelligence considered her the more dangerous.

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[yesterdaysprint]

The Sketch, England, November 16, 1932

[theladyintweed]

Deborah Cavendish, née Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 

[theladyintweed]

Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 

[aroyalnonsense]

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford