Pixiedeadbeat

Curse of the Demon (1957) dir. Jacques Tourneur

Offshore Bather - RBK Photography.

Brigitte Bardot being painted by Dutch-French painter Kees Van Dongen, 1959

The Bitter Tears of Isa Miranda. Born on this day: durable Italian screen diva Isa Miranda (née Ines Isabella Sampietro, 5 July 1905 – 8 July 1982). In the 1930s she worked with titans of European art cinema like Max Ophüls (La Signora di tutti (Everybody's Woman) (1934)). Later in the decade Miranda was fleetingly (and unsuccessfully) imported to Hollywood as a would-be rival to Marlene Dietrich. Her notable later films include Summertime (1955), Do You Know This Voice? (1963) and Liliana Cavani's notorious Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter (1974). She also diversified into television, with a wild guest appearance on a 1967 episode of The Avengers. But I have a soft spot for the bizarre low budget 1964 Euro-exploitation flick Dog Eat Dog starring Jayne Mansfield and Cameron Mitchell. Miranda must have wondered where the hell her career went wrong!

Ann & Nancy Wilson

Carole KIng

Joan Baez, ca. 1964.

A lady and her cat, Times Square, 1956

ROMY SCHNEIDER by Claude Azoulay, 1970

Natalie Wood, 1960s

Mara Corday

With Carol Kane in a promotional photo for The World’s Greatest Lover (1977).

Happy Birthday Jon Lord

Gay Activists at First Gay Pride Parade, Christopher Street, New York, 1970 photographed by Arthur Tress

Photo, John Palmer.