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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart with their son Stephen, 1955

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17-year old Lauren Bacall in a 1942 fashion photo by Jerry Plucer Sarna for Harper’s Bazaar

French artist/writer/filmmaker Jean Cocteau and his lover actor Jean Marais, Paris, 1939, photo by Cecil Beaton

James Dean in New York, photo by Dennis Stock, 1954

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From the Aug. 1, 1955 SPEAKING OF PICTURES — HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE. According to LIFE, “The things a man will do to woo a woman are just about unlimited. But nobody is known to have tried courtship by acrobatics before Movie Actor Russ Tamblyn began to woo 17-year-old Venetia Stevenson in Hollywood. Russ, who was 1952 collegiate state tumbling champion and did acrobatic dancing in the film ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,’ is bombarded with requests to do somersaults and hand-stands. To oblige the public and amuse his girl, whom he dates on a steady basis, Russ demonstrates here the feelings of an acrobat head-over-heels in love.” (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #tbt

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Legendary dancer, actor, singer, Gene Kelly was born 105 years ago today on August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, PA. He is pictured here in an unpublished image from 1949 by another legend, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #GeneKelly #OnThisDay

Yearning for a life of freedom, the Joneses contemplate jumping the border into Canada.

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Two sailors exhausted from celebrating the end of World War II, 1945.

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