Decadent Lullaby

Beauty of whatever kind, in it's supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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Silent Film Actress, Betty Blythe, 1920.

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Salvador Dali Dream of Venus 1939

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Joan Leslie, 1940s

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Mlle. Emelin by Leopold Reutlinger, Paris, 1900s.

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Wanda Landowska in 1941, by Philippe Halsman.

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Spoleto, Italy

Steve McCurry

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Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

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Betty Blythe painted from photograph by Hoover c. 1919

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Betty Blythe

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Sharon Tate in The Wrecking Crew, 1968.

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Photoplay, September 1921

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Rita Moreno

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Antonio Ciseri, Mary Magdalene, c.1870

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Betty Blythe in Chu Chin Chow (Herbert Wilcox, 1925)