classic cinema

“Acting is a difficult and sometimes a discouraging, sorrowful profession. It’s also the most ephemeral of the arts. A painter can preserve his work, but an actor cannot. Even motion pictures come and go.” Agnes Moorehead

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Montgomery Clift photographed by Stanley Kubrick, 1949.

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Paul Newman as Ben Quick | The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

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Debbie Reynolds with her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher on the set of “The Mating Game”. 1959

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Paulette Goddard, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, Gene Tierney, Bette Davis, Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers and Ava Gardner for Vogue, 1940s - 1950s.

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Dorothy Dandridge in The Mermaid Gown by Zelda Wynn Valdes, 1953 #FashionFriday

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“She didn’t mind these tests, they were just another challenge to her. Another opportunity to show the world what contempt she has for it.” OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND as Terry Collins in THE DARK MIRROR (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak

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Natalie Wood

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Claudia Cardinale, c. 1959

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Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Pierrot le Fou, 1965

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Natalie Wood

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Françoise Dorléac and Catherine Deneuve with Jacques Demy, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly and Grover Dale on the set of “Les demoiselles de Rochefort”, 1966

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You’re like a thousand women in one. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) dir. Alain Resnais

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Sharon Tate, C.1960’s

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by her makeup artist Allan ‘Whitey’ Snyder during a promotional photoshoot for her film “The Prince and The Showgirl” with photographer Jack Cardiff in 1956.

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Sophia Loren photographed by Francois Pages, 1962.

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Elizabeth Taylor by Peter Basch, 1956