La Délicatesse

Simone D’Aillencourt in a satin gown by Susan Small in a 1957 photo by Vernier for British Vogue

Vintage Balenciaga

Gene Tierney

Vivien Leigh, 1938

Adele Simpson 1956

“I was there for years under contract to MGM, RKO, and Paramount… I don’t know how many others. Actually, I do, but who cares? I don’t want others to remember the details, just the image.”   (to Rex Reed in 1973)

“In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

A portrait of Ava Gardner by Norman Parkinson, 1953

Marlene Dietrich, 1938

“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.” - Tennessee Williams

Dovima wearing Adele Simpson 1950

Joan Crawford wearing an Irene gown in 1943, her last year at MGM

Mary Pickford

Rita Hayworth by Philippe Halsman | 1943

Remembering Jeanne Crain on her birthday, here in THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE (‘56)

Bette Davis, 1936