Rita Hayworth, 1940s.
Greta Garbo, photographed in 1927 by Ruth Harriet Louise.
A strangely androgynous portrait of Joan Crawford from 1927. Photographed by Kenneth Alexander.
Leila Hyams photographed by George Hurrell.
Joan Crawford photographed by George Hurrell.
Robert Montgomery, photographed by George Hurrell.
Clara Bow keeps vigil for Santa on Christmas Eve. Poor dear, I hope she doesn't catch cold in that négligée!
Girl, deconstructed. Myrna Loy in a modernistic glamour shot, by Preston Duncan, intended to emphasize her enchanting eyes.
It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
—Gloria Grahame, film noir's perennial femme fatale. This dame's odd alchemy of pouty cuteness and lurid, masochistic desire made her truly unsettling—like Shirley Temple gone very, very wrong.