the glorious past

& ALL THAT JAZZ! Take a trip into the past, back to classics. 1900s - 1960s NAVIGATION (search by people, decade or place)

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Grand Salon de l’Impératrice, Château de Saint-Cloud (c.1867-68).

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(by Soumya Benkacem)

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Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer in Rome, Italy 1958

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Niki de Saint Phalle, photographed by Michiko Matsumoto, Italy, 1985.

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Monica Vitti // Modesty Blaise // 1966

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Monica Vitti in "La cintura di castità" (Pasquale Festa Campanile - 1967)

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the grand opera in rome, 1938 by regina relang (via pleasurephoto.wordpress.com)

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Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, The Children’s Hour (1961)

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Adieu et merci, Emmanuelle Riva (1927-2017).

Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour, 1959

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AUDREY HEPBURN

(May 4th, 1929 - January 20th, 1993)

“There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen - not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses - and friends, in my life - but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.” Gregory Peck

“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.” Steven Spielberg

“She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling.” Richard Dreyfuss

“Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn’t have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.” Shirley Maclaine

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Sophia Loren in her hotel room at the Excelsior Venice photo by Mario De Biasi 1955

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Jean-Paul Sartre and Maria Casarès, both smoking, during a fitting for costumes designed by Elsa Schiaparelli for “Le Diable et le Bon Dieu” (1951). 

Photo by Genevieve Naylor

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Greta Garbo had something that nobody ever had on the screen. Nobody. I don’t know whether she even knew she had it, but she did. … Garbo had something behind the eyes that you couldn’t see until you photographed it in close-up. You could see thought. If she had to look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn’t have to change her expression. You could see it in her eyes as she looked from one to the other. And nobody else has been able to do that on the screen. Garbo did it without the command of the English language.

Clarence Brown  (via divinegarbo)

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Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin eater, 1964