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Dolores Del Rio in Journey Into Fear (1943) dir. Norman Foster, Orson Welles

#dolores del rio #journey into fear

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Patty Duke holds her Oscar statuette and her pet chihuahua, Bambi. Duke won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film The Miracle Worker (1962). At the age 16, this made her the third youngest winner for that category.

#patty duke

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Outside Waterloo Station one night Roy miraculously returns (from prison camp), but although he still loves her and takes her to meet his aristocratic family in Scotland, Myra realises she cannot marry him, obeying the Production Code’s law that A Fallen Woman Cannot Rise Again. It [the film] manages to evoke that sense of time suspended in wartime (‘No one who has been in this war is young’ says Roy) and a period when women with no income or prospects become caught between the pressures of survival and the social values which damn their conduct. “The empty space, the unsaid, anticipates her death. For prostitution is absolutely irrecuperable. Roy can cross class demarcations to marry her but once she slips into prostitution she is lost… she is, literally, unpresentable and must die.”

Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan.

#vivien leigh #waterloo bridge

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Merle Oberon by George Hurrell 1934

#merle oberon

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Betty Grable boosts morale at Fort Bragg, 1942

#betty grable

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JANE RUSSELL and ROBERT MITCHUM in His Kind of Woman (1951)

#his kind of woman #jane russell #robert mitchum

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Marilyn Monroe portrait by H. Maier Studios, c. 1943

#marilyn monroe #h. maier studios #norma jeane

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“‘Your eyes, your remarkable eyes.’ If he ever looks into my eyes again, he’ll really see a storm over the pampas!” BETTY GRABLE as Glenda Crawford in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (1940) dir. Irving Cummings

#down argentine way #betty grable

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Vivien Leigh, с. 1935

#vivien leigh

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Norma Shearer presents the Academy Award for Best Actress to Marie Dressler, 1931

#norma shearer

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Jane Russell poses in character as movie-star Laurel Stevens for her rom-com, THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN (1957).

#jane russell #the fuzzy pink nightgown

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Dolores Del Rio in Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland

#dolores del rio #flying down to rio

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Judy Garland Esquire, June 1944 Photography by George Hurrell

#judy garland

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Jean Peters, 1952

#jean peters

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Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina (1935) directed by Clarence Brown

#greta garbo #anna karenina

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Vivien Leigh by Cecil Beaton, 1935.

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MARLON BRANDO in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

#a streetcar named desire #marlon brando