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Ava Gardner during the filming of The Barefoot Contessa, Italy, 1954

#ava gardner #the barefoot contessa #pinup

Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern for Vogue, 1962

"Vogue was certainly going in the opposite direction from my original idea. 'We're going to get wonderful, wonderful clothes for her,' they'd told me… We're going to make her into a princess!' And I'd thought, she's already a goddess. What does she need to be a princess for?"

-Bert Stern

#marilyn monroe #bert stern #vogue #quote #opera gloves

Audrey Hepburn by Bob Willoughby on the set of My Fair Lady, 1964

"She wouldn't even let me visit her on the set while she was in that bedraggled flower-girl characterization. But even at her dirtiest, she sprayed herself with Joy, a $100-an-ounce perfume. 'I may look dirty, ' she'd say, 'but I am to smell pretty.'"

-Mel Ferrer

#audrey hepburn #bob willoughby #mel ferrer #quote #my fair lady #joy #perfume #joy by patou #pink

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Grace Kelly photographed by Paul Radkai for Harper's Bazaar US, December 1954.

Of all the young actresses today, Grace Kelly has had the most dizzying dash to film fame. In a year's time she has appeared as a prim English girl on African safari in Mogambo; a wife about to be murdered by her spouse in Dial M for Murder; a gad-about who reads Harper's Bazaar and, inevitably, gets a hard-to-get man in Rear Window. Furthermore, in four films yet to be released, Miss Kelly is, in rapid succession, the foil to Cary Grant's Jimmy Valentine in To Catch a Thief, to Stewart Granger's adventurer in Green Fire, to William Holden's Korean war pilot in The Bridges at Toko-Ri, and to Bing Crosby's down-and-out dipsomaniac in The Country Girl.

#grace kelly #harper's bazaar