Vintage White House

Marlene vacationing in the South of France

Marlene Dietrich receiving word of the Japanese surrender, August 1945, which brought an end to World War II. 

“This is the way he lived. My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others, will some day come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: ‘Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.’” - Ted Kennedy eulogizes his brother Bobby Kennedy 

Happy Birthday Norma Jeane aka Marilyn Monroe

“June 1st, 1926 - August 1st, 1962”

Happy 48th, Chiara Mastroianni.

                          Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

                                  July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994

20 years have gone by and there isn’t a day where I haven’t though of you. You were funny, courageous, witty, smart and down right beautiful.

“She made a rare and noble contribution to the American spirit. But for us, most of all she was a magnificent wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend.

She graced our history. And for those of us who knew and loved her—she graced our lives.

No one else looked like her, spoke like her, wrote like her, or was so original in the way she did things. No one we knew ever had a better sense of self.”

(28th July 1929 - 19th May 1994)