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Betty Compson in "The Green Temptation" (1922).

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Dorothy Dandridge in London, 1956

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Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon (1957)

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 1958

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Orson Welles dancing in ‘Citizen Kane’.

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Kim Novak, 1955.

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Dirk Bogarde and Ava Gardner on the set of ‘The Angel Wore Red’, from Dirk Bogarde’s personal collection, Italy, 1959.

(credit: R3el Clips)

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Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz

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Irene Dunne, c. 1940s.

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Montgomery Clift in Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks

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Carmen Miranda in "Week-End in Havana" (1941).

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You see there’s so many little things about her that nobody would understand her the way Judy and I do. We love her Judge, please don’t take her away from us. Look, I’m not a big shot now, I-I’ll do anything, I’ll work for anybody. I’ll beg, I’ll borrow, I’ll… please Judge I’ll sell anything I’ve got until I get going again. And she’ll never go hungry, she’ll never be without clothes not so long as I’ve got two good hands so help me! Penny Serenade (1941) dir. George Stevens

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Elizabeth Taylor photographed by John Engstead, c.1948

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Gone with the Wind (1939)

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Anita Ekberg, 1960s.

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Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Costume design by Marjorie Wahl