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lover of times gone by & old hollywood

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Grace Kelly by Walter Carone, 1956

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Ingrid Bergman’s first Hollywood screen test, as seen in Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015, dir. Stig Björkman)

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Grace Kelly by Carl Mydans, California, 1951

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Lana Turner, Marriage Is a Private Affair, 1944

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“Perfume? You shouldn’t ask that. It’s a girl’s secret. But I have two, one for daytime, one for evening. No girl should buy her own perfume. It’s the one thing you should get from a beau. But ever since I’ve been able to afford it I’ve bought my own. Dreary, isn’t it?"

-Audrey Hepburn, Photoplay magazine, January 1954

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Ava Gardner by J.R. Eyerman for One Touch of Venus, 1948

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Ava Gardner in Mogambo (1953).

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Veronica Lake, 1940s

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Lana Turner, Marriage Is a Private Affair, 1944

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Anita Ekberg by Milton H. Greene, 1950s

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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) dir. Howard Hawks

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Grace Kelly photographed by Loomis Dean, 1954.

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“She was a very shy person, very sweet, very caring person; but I guess her role as Gilda sort of gave the world that image, that she was carefree, but she wasn’t.”

-Yasmin Aga Khan

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Grace Kelly in her New York apartment with her pet poodle Oliver, before departing to Monaco for her wedding, 1956

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Grace Kelly (greeted by Captain Ernest Nielson, ship Captain of the SS Constitution), 1956

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Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth at the premiere of Sundown, 1941

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