You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve?

Lauren Bacall by Milton H. Greene

Ella Fitzgerald, backstage in 1957

Love in the Afternoon (1957) dir. Billy Wilder

Audrey Hepburn, c.1952.

I think people love her off the screen for the same reason they love her performances - a kind of orderliness and formality. William Holden

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Earl Leaf at Johnny Hyde’s home, 1950. Marilyn loved to garden and spent hours tending to plants at her homes throughout her lifetime.

Billie Holiday at home in New York City, 1949, photo by Herman Leonard

You listen to me. You say you don’t want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you’ve been doing? You tell me what rights I’ve got or haven’t got, and what I owe to you for what you’ve done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you’re supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don’t own me! You can’t tell me when or where I’m out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don’t even know what I am, Dad, you don’t know who I am. You don’t know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it’s got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you’ve got to get off my back! Sidney Poitier as John Prentice in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) dir. Stanley Kramer

FRANCINE EVERETT in DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM, U.S.A. (1946) dir. Spencer Williams

Carole Lombard photographed by George Hurrell, 1933

Julie Newmar photographed by Peter Basch, 1960.

“As overjoyed as I was to be Mrs Bogart. I had no intention of allowing Miss Bacall to slide into oblivion.”

Stage Door (1937) dir. Gregory La Cava

Notorious (1946, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor