[claudettcolbert]

Ava Gardner, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (dir. Albert Lewin, 1951).

[vintageeveryday]

Ella Fitzgerald holding a basket of flowers while singing ‘A Tisket, a Tasket,’ 1946. Photograph by Eliot Elisofon.

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Peter Basch - Jayne Mansfield (1955)

[ladybegood]

Lena Horne

[twixnmix]

Pearl Bailey photographed by Carl Van Vechten on July 5, 1946.

[norrmajeane]

“I’m poison, Swede, to myself and everybody around me. I’d be afraid to go with anyone I love for the harm I’d do them.”

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in The Killers (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak

[margotfonteyns]

“If it is clear to men that happiness lies in love they will live in love. If I stand in a dark room and see light through the door, and if I need light, is it possible for me not to go where I can find it?” - Leo Tolstoy

Sonnenstrahl (1933)

[gatabella]

Ava Gardner

[jesuisclaire]

Alain Delon and Monica Vitti in L’ECLISSE (1962) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni | via Tumblr su We Heart It.

[margotfonteyns]

Georgia Carroll as January in the Esquire Calendar Girl parade from Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

[margotfonteyns]

James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

[margotfonteyns]

Audrey Hepburn in London, 1951

[divinevivienleigh]

Vivien Leigh and Mary Ure in Duel of Angels, 1960

[margotfonteyns]

"One night after a performance of Victoria Regina, Ruth Gordon was with Helen Hayes in her dressing room. The two of them were going to a party and stood before the mirror inspecting themselves. Almost of a size, delicate and bright-eyed, they looked utterly charming but utterly unspectacular in their chaste dinner dresses. As they were leaving, Joan Crawford joined them--sleek and lovely in a white turban, dazzling diamond ear clips, and a white ermine coat that plunged in unbroken magnificence from her chin to the floor. Leading the way, Miss Crawford's blazing, ermined presence swept from the dressing room. Miss Hayes took a final look in the mirror, sighed, shrugged, and, beckoning Ruth Gordon to follow, murmured, 'Snow White and her two dwarfs.'" — Therese Lewis

[margotfonteyns]

Claudette Colbert overlooking Los Angeles, c. 1930s

[summertimenoir]

Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949)

[summertimenoir]

Marlene Dietrich in costume tests for The Devil is a Woman (1935)