Dreaming in the 50s

Gene Tierney in 'Laura' - 1944

Louise Brooks by Eugene Robert Richee, 1928

Judy Garland by Francis McLaughlin, US Vogue, March 1945

Grace Kelly by Richard Avedon, January 14 1955

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee

Marilyn Monroe receives farewell kisses from Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as she returns to the US following the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh photographed between takes of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Grace Kelly in 'Rear Window' (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

I don’t know yet whether your eyes are blue or violet. Jean Harlow + Robert Williams in Platinum Blonde (1931) dir. Frank Capra

Ginger Rogers in SWING TIME (1935) Costume Design by Bernard Newman

Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Madison Lacy.

Cary Grant

Hedy Lamarr

Marilyn Monroe at a press party for “The Seven Year Itch” in New York, NY, September 9, 1954. Photo by Sam Shaw.