I'll rise, but I sure won't shine.

"We have enough reality around us. I think when you go to the cinema it's time to be taken inside of something that isn't quite as realistic." - Jerry Lewis

[fortheloothoney]

Claudette Colbert posing for a Lux Soap Advertisement in 1940

[fortheloothoney]

[gregorypecks]

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

[nitratediva]

Greta Garbo as Ninotchka (1939) indulges in her first lipstick.

[damsellover]

Rub-a-dub-dub.

James Cagney and Joan Blondell in Blonde Crazy (1931)

[toska91]

Gene Kelly in drag!!!

[eternalmarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe in Canada, 1953.

[beauvelvet]

Marilyn in the mirror.

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

[magicmarilyn]

Marilyn & Red Lipstick.

[screengoddess]

VILMA BANKY

[godmerlin]

[blanchefordubois]

this pic needs a special award

[myrnasloy]

Paulette Goddard in The Crystal Ball (1943)

[fortheloothoney]

[fortheloothoney]

[dinahshore]

Lana Turner, 1944

[bellecs]

Marlene Dietrich in Manpower (1944)