the calla lilies are in bloom again

Roberta(1935)

Marilyn Monroe in How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Joan Blondell in Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)

1927 Esther Ralston in the lost film "Fashions for Women". From America in the 1920s, FB.

Greta Garbo in the MGM/Jacques Feyder silent drama The Kiss, 1929. Garbo’s final silent film before transitioning to talkies (though MGM did add an orchestral score and sound effects to this movie), the spectacular cinematography was handled by Greta’s favorite lensman William H. Daniels.

Katharine Hepburn

German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich on a vintage postcard

Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman (1932)

An Affair to Remember (1957) — dir. Leo McCarey     

Joan Crawford - Dancing Lady (1933)

Swedish poster for Lady of the Night (1925), starring Norma Shearer (via)

“I’m not very bright, I guess…just dumb. If I had any brains, I wouldn’t be on this crummy train with this crummy girls’ band…I used to sing with male bands but I can’t afford it anymore…That’s what I’m running away from. I worked with six different ones in the last two years. Oh, brother!…I can’t trust myself. I have this thing about saxophone players, especially tenor sax…I don’t know what it is, they just curdle me. All they have to do is play eight bars of ‘Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby’ and my spine turns to custard.”

Bette Davis as Regina Hubbard in The Little Foxes (1941)

Marilyn Monroe during acting class, 1949. Photo by JR Eyerman.

Julie Andrews

Ginger Rogers in Magnificent Doll (1946)