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Ruby Catherine Stevens, a.k.a. Barbara Stanwyck July 16th, 1907 - January 20th, 1990
I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I`m ninety and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.
Eartha Kitt | I’d Rather Be Burned As A Witch
Candid photo of Katharine Hepburn, c.1942
Eartha Kitt at home filming the CBS television interview program, Person to Person. Location: 270 Riverside Drive at West 99th Street, New York, NY. Episode originally broadcast September 10, 1954.
Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks in New York, 1952.
Tallulah Bankhead, 1932, photo by Mortimer Offner
Bankhead was more a theater actress than a movie actress. Her career in Hollywood was short, seven films in 1931 and 32, but she had huge successes on Broadway during the Thirties and Forties performing in, among others, Dark Victory and The Little Foxes (which both became films starring Bette Davis) and The Skin of Our Teeth.
kate bush rlly was like. I am 18 years old and im gonna write a song about an emily bronte novel and i'm gonna sing it entirely in falsetto and then it was the best song ever released
Marlene Dietrich in Germany, 1945, as American paratroopers descend from the sky. Dietrich was with frontline American and Allied troops in Europe during the last year of World War II visiting and entertaining soldiers, following them as they progressed across France, the Low Countries and into Germany itself, her native land. She sang, told stories, even played some tunes on the saw, a skill she learned in Berlin’s cabarets in the 1920′s. For her war efforts she received in 1947 the US Medal of Freedom for her “extraordinary record entertaining troops overseas during the war.”
“It seems pretty silly to go on working for a frivolous paper like Vogue. It may be good for the country’s morale but it’s hell on mine.”
Josephine Baker photographed by Gilles Petard, 1920s
hate to repost but the bde that is sheerly radiating out of this picture is just too much
Lauren Bacall circa 1945 photo by Ralph Crane
Morocco (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg
Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when in high spirits. “It is a little off the beaten track, isn’t it?” said he.
Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1897, Giovanni Boldini
