He tried to make love to me and I shot him

Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister in The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Amy Adams photographed by Boe Marion for So It Goes magazine, 2018

Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1958) dir. Louis Malle

Grace Kelly by Richard Avedon, January 14 1955

Amy Adams, photographed by Gavin Bond for Citizen K, Fall 2012/13.

La Dolce Vita (1960) dir. Federico Fellini

The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller

Rebecca, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940 Joan Fontaine

Jessica Lange, 1974.

Jessica Lange photographed by Shayan Asgharnia for Variety. (June/2017)

On her birthday, here is Jessica Lange, turning in and out of Hollywood’s light as the tragic Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), one of the greatest film performances of all time.

Lana Turner photographed by Eric Carpenter, 1944

Lauren Bacall in Written on the Wind (1956)