Classic Obsession

[summertimenoir]

Allow me to tell you that you're the most beautiful ghost that ever walked!

Paulette Goddard in The Ghost Breakers (1940)

[cherubina]

Anita Page in “Our Modern Maidens”, 1929

[stylelikeclara]

Clara Bow photographed by Nickolas Murray for Brewster Publication’s annual nationwide acting contest, 1921.

[ironmaidenhead]

RUDOLPH VALENTINO in The Son of the Sheik (1926) — Dir. George Fitzmaurice

[the1920sinpictures]

1926 Left to right: Manuel Reachi (husband of Agnes Ayres and close friend to Valentino), director George Fitzmaurice, Constance Talmadge and Rudolph Valentino on the set of "The Son of the Sheik". It's been one hundred years. From His Fame Still Lives, FB.

[bygone-hollywood]

Rita Hayworth

[littlehorrorshop]

Jobyna Ralston in For Heaven's Sake (1926)

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in The Misfits, 1961.

[didanagy]

GRACE KELLY as FRANCES STEVENS

TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) dir. alfred hitchcock

[aaronstveit]

JAMES STEWART & CARY GRANT THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

[aaronstveit]

JAMES STEWART & KATHARINE HEPBURN THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

[fireairshadow]

— How long will I live?  — ’Till the break of dawn.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

[summertimenoir]

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in Red Dust (1932)

[deforest]

TYRONE POWER in JESSE JAMES (1939) dir. Henry King

[classicfilmblr]

Nightmare Alley, 1947 dir. Edmund Goulding

[howardhawkshollywood]

Jane Russell in an original publicity still for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

[boydswan]

PETER PAN (1924)