Life and Style of the 1940s

My devotion to the life and style of the 1940s ~Ask box is open~ Navigate by year :)

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Lucille Ball in publicity portraits for the RKO Radio Pictures/Irving Reis drama The Big Street, photos by John Florea, 1942. Miss Ball's glamorous gowns in the film were designed by Renié.

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Rita Hayworth

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Hedy Lamarr, Ziegfeld Girl, 1941

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Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940

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Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Virgil Apger, 1948

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Vivian Leigh as Anna Karenina (1948)

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Vivian Leigh on the set of Anna Karenina

Too damn perfect.

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Vivian Leigh’s perfect face. Waterloo Bridge (1940).

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Do you have any good pictures of the beautiful Vivien Leigh from 'Gone with the wind'? Thanks in advance!

I probably do somewhere, lemme look :)

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Holy cow, thank you all so much!! I never would have dreamed of 8,000!

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Elizabeth Allen Williams, one of the first Native American women to join the military. In 1943 she joined and was stationed at Camp Davidson where she served as a staff car driver for Generals Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton.

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Howard University students Rose Esters and Sarah White photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945

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Paul Robeson photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1941

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Vivien Leigh

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Ladies love a man in uniform, 1948