Old Hollywood

Claudette Colbert as Empress Poppaea in The Sign of the Cross (1932) dir. Cecil B. DeMille — Costume design by Mitchell Leisen

JOAN CRAWFORD as Julie in STRANGE CARGO (1940) dir. Frank Borzage

Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), 1931. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Crossfades. 

Betty Grable in "The Dolly Sisters" (dir. Irving Cummings - 1945).

Gina Lollobrigida during the filming of Trapeze, 1956

Barbara Stanwyck by John Florea, 1942

Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it | Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

“Vivien Leigh was my mother’s film heroine and I was named after her. I agree with my mother that I have never seen a prettier woman.” – Vivienne Westwood

Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday / Helen Jones in Blond Venus (1932)

Sylvia Sidney

Greta Garbo photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull for Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), 1931.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Greta Garbo, Camille, 1936

Anna Karenina — dir. Julien Duvivier, 1948

Carole Lombard / publicity photo for Paramount.