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I'm an Old Hollywood hobbyist historian & needed a more aesthetically-pleasing dumping ground to collect my findings. I own nothing and work extremely hard to source my photos correctly. If you know the proper credit, please let me know.

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PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2022

DAY 5: FAVORITE DYNAMIC | Melanie Hamilton & Scarlett O'Hara

“She hasn’t your strength. She’s never had any strength. She’s never had anything but heart.”

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Lauren Bacall and director Douglas Sirk during production of the melodrama Written on the Wind, 1956.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton arrive on the island of Capri in June, 1962. The screen stars, who were both married, were guests at Dame Gracie Field’s exclusive hotel on Capri, La Canzone Del Mare.

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A kind letter from Greta Garbo to Princess Grace of Monaco, graciously declining an invitation to visit the princess and her husband, Prince Rainier. Despite her fame, Garbo lived a reclusive life, refusing interviews, autographs, premieres, and fan mail throughout her life in Beverly Hills.

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Top Hollywood fashion designer Edith Head cruises around outside her office on the lot of Universal Studios in Universal City, CA on June 23, 1975.

Source: Mark Sullivan, 70s Rock Archive

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Gene Tierney in a leopard print swimsuit poses with a real leopard in promotional stills for the movie The Egyptian (1954).

Source: Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images, July 27th, 1954.

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A 19-year-old Judy Garland rehearses a dance number for Babes on Broadway (1941). The film was stalled in the middle of production when Judy secretly flew to Las Vegas to marry her first husband, David Rose.

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Princess Grace of Monaco snaps a photo at a swimming competition at Palm Beach, Monte Carlo in 1972.

Source: Hulton Royals Collection / Getty Images

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Debbie Reynolds with daughter Carrie Fisher, June 15th, 1971.

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Julie Andrews at sixteen going on seventeen, 1952

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#PersonalPost My favorite Laurence Olivier video

Sir Laurence Olivier recites William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 on the Dick Cavett Show, January 24th, 1973

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Actress June Blair delivers pink perfume and pink champagne to newspaper and magazine offices in Los Angeles in a publicity stunt arranged by Paramount Pictures to promote the Audrey Hepburn-Fred Astaire romantic comedy Funny Face on January 5th, 1957. Inspired by the Think Pink number performed by Kay Thompson in the movie, June was decked out by Paramount with a pink dress and a pink convertible that trailed perfumed “Pink Satin” soap bubbles in its wake as she drove through the streets of Hollywood and downtown L.A. Ms. Blair, who also happened to be Playboy magazine’s “Playmate of the Month” for January of 1957, went on to marry David Nelson of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet fame in 1961, appearing on the show as his wife until the series ended its fourteen year run in 1966, later divorcing in 1975.

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Future husband and wife Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart in their first movie together, To Have and Have Not (1944). 

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Elizabeth Taylor photographed at Grossinger’s Catskills Resort Hotel, 1959.

Though she was with Eddie Fisher at the time, she continued to wear her 29.4-carat “Ice Skating Rink” diamond ring from Mike Todd, as well as his wedding ring (taken from the wreckage of the plane crash that tragically ended his life the prior year).

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David Niven, Jackie Kennedy, and her sister Lee Bouvier (far left) at a society gala sponsored by the wife of the U.S. ambassador to Cuba, in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, November 22, 1956.

Photo: Yale Joel for Life magazine

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Laurence Olivier in 1987

Source: photographer unknown; found via Kendra Bean / vivandlarry.com