Welcome to Retropolis

This is a tribute to the past. We'll be posting mainly photos of movie stars from the mid 20th Century, but we'll also post some random things now and again, things reminiscent of that time e.g. Fashion, Music, Design. If you're looking for anything in particular, try using the search box below, if there is a certain time you're looking for, we tag each post that is relevant to one of the decades below. Enjoy!

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[7/10] Crucial Movies: Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Montgomery Clift photographed by Stanley Kubrick in NYC, 1949.

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Lauren Bacall bats her lashes (at Bogie, of course) in To Have and Have Not (1944).

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The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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HAPPY 109th BIRTHDAY, GRETA GARBO!

(September 18, 1908 - April 15, 1990)

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won’t bother me."

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I’m a strong tree with branches for many birds. I’m good for somethin’ in this old world, and I know it, too. 

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Greta Garbo as Ninotchka (1939) indulges in her first lipstick.

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James Dean playing records in his aunt and uncle’s basement in Indiana, 1955.

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Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford in Across to Singapore, 1928

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What are you? A prize fighter?

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Marlon Brando photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1950.

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Dean Martin and wife Jeanne with their daughter Gina, 1957.

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Marlon Brando c. unknown

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Elizabeth Taylor, photographed by Bob Willoughby, 1956.

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"A woman is beautiful when she’s loved, and only then." "Nonsense! A woman is beautiful if she has eight hours sleep and goes to the beauty parlour every day - and bone structure has a lot to do with it too."