the indomitable

all of her days became nights

[hellooldsmelly]

[bygone-hollywood]

Ava Gardner

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Ava Gardner and Robert Taylor in The Bribe - 1949

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1943 - photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe Lauren Bacall

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Harper’s Bazaar May 1943 - photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe Lauren Bacall

[olivethomas]

Ava Gardner in Mexico, 1957

[citizenscreen]

Ava Gardner on Movie Life, May 1948

[paolo-streito-1264]

Student studying under a tree, Bryn Mawr, 1966.

[riversname]

Faithful and True by Charles Burton Barber (1845 – 1894), England.

[vintagecamping]

Visitors to the Glacier Point Hotel take in the sweeping views of Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome.

California 1933

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A shot from The Sorrows of Satan (1926). This shot would go on to be the cover of Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

[all4roma]

French rroma cooking outside their caravan. Photograph by Yale Joel. France, 1948.

[groovyscooter]

16 year old Elizabeth Taylor at the Academy Awards - 1948

[vintageeveryday]

Marilyn Monroe, 1948.  

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[yesterdaysprint]

Lido Beach, Florida, ca. 1948

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Rita Hayworth and her daughter Rebecca Welles at home, 1946