La Délicatesse

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Simone D’Aillencourt in a satin gown by Susan Small in a 1957 photo by Vernier for British Vogue

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Vintage Balenciaga

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Gene Tierney

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Vivien Leigh, 1938

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Adele Simpson 1956

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Gloria Grahame, 1948

“I was there for years under contract to MGM, RKO, and Paramount… I don’t know how many others. Actually, I do, but who cares? I don’t want others to remember the details, just the image.”   (to Rex Reed in 1973)

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Marlene Dietrich, 1935

“In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

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A portrait of Ava Gardner by Norman Parkinson, 1953

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Marlene Dietrich, 1938

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“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.” - Tennessee Williams

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Dovima wearing Adele Simpson 1950

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Joan Crawford wearing an Irene gown in 1943, her last year at MGM

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Mary Pickford

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Rita Hayworth by Philippe Halsman | 1943

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Remembering Jeanne Crain on her birthday, here in THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE (‘56)

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Bette Davis, 1936