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Wishing Sophia Loren a very Happy Birthday (20 September 1934)

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

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Romania being Romania.

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The show won, and people went, ‘What the fuck is that?’ And they went and found it. And then, thankfully, they liked it and told their friends, and their teachers, and their children, and their rabbis, and, you know, here we are.

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Please appreciate Vera Lynn.

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Katharine Hepburn, 1934, photo by Ernest Bachrach

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Dorothy Dandridge | Black Glamour & Grace

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (1922-1965), American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (a first for an African American actress) for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones, as well as a Golden Globe Award in 1959 for Porgy and Bess. Shown here relaxing in her Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, CA) apartment.

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Dawsey Adams // The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Elizabeth Arden, 1959

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Audrey Hepburn arriving at Heathrow Airport in London, May 21, 1953.

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Gene Kelly’s amazing dance on roller skates in “It’s Always Fair Weather”, 1955 - dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

“I must be quite a guy … can it be, I like myself!” 😎

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Vikki Dougan in sleepwear fashions photographed by Nina Leen, 1952

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Aretha Franklin has died, at the age of 76. “Her voice was a pure, painful, and unforgettable expression of American history and American feeling, the collective experience of black Americans and her own life,” David Remnick writes. Photograph by Richard Avedon / © the Richard Avedon Foundation.

Read Remnick’s remembrance of the Queen of Soul.

Read Remnick’s 2016 Profile of the singer.

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