Welcome to my Retro Life

Some rare shots of Judy performing at a cancer benefit hosted in memory of Judy Holliday, who had died of the disease the previous year. 1966.

Gena Rowlands, 1970′s

The Genius of Gena Rowlands: Sheila O’Malley explores Rowlands’s role in Love Streams, and the way the actor both hides essential truths about her character from the audience and seems to lay herself emotionally bare.

Gena Rowlands, 1968

Gena Rowlands modelling a dress by designer Robert Rosenfeld, 1958

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Gena Rowlands, c.1959

A Woman Under the Influence (1974) dir. John Cassavetes

Irene Dunn, Photoplay Magazine June 1935

Irene Dunne No Other Woman, J. Walter Ruben (1933). Photo: Harold Tomlin

Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne wears a slinky gown by Edward Stevenson in this publicity photo for Love Affair (Leo McCarey, 1939)

Irene Dunne in a publicity shot for “Ann Vickers” (1933)

“I don’t know why the public took a liking to me so fast. Popularity is a curious thing. The public responds to a dimple, a smile, a giggle, a hairstyle, an attitude. Acting talent has less to do with it than personality.”

Ava Gardner, Irene Dunne, Diana Lynn and Loretta Young at the Ribbon Ball, 1951