"...sentiments can vanish like smoke, talk is chea

Dina. Old Hollywood. Spanish and French languages. Reading. Travelling. Metaphysics. Cats

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GRACE KELLY as FRANCES STEVENS

TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) dir. alfred hitchcock

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Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold, 1955

“She had learned the trick of moving infintesimally to stay in range, so that the photographer need not refocus but could easily follow movements that were endlessly changing. Often she would seem a shimmering, molten wraith. She could be elusive, tantalizing. For each photographer she would be different, responding to the vibrations, but using herself and bringing forth different facets of herself…it was magic. With her it was never a formula; it was her will, her improvisation. She captured the imagination and heightened the atmosphere.”

- Eve Arnold on Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe in How To Marry a Millionaire (1953)

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Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1954)

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She looks on the screen as if you could reach out and touch her… she had a quality no-one else ever had on the screen except Garbo.” - Billy Wilder

Happy birthday to the beautiful Norma Jeane Mortenson, best known as Marilyn Monroe, who was born on this day, 100 years ago 🩷

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Rita Hayworth

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Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper in "Love in the Afternoon" (1957)

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Greta Garbo, Wild Orchids, 1929

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Lauren Bacall

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Anita Ekberg during the filming of La Dolce Vita, Rome, 1960

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Mylene Demongeot, 1960s  

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Sophia Loren in Ieri, Oggi, Domani (1963) │ dir. Vittorio De Sica

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Hedy Lamarr, 1940s

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Brigitte Bardot by Sam Levin, 1956

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Vivien Leigh, 1930s