Clara Bow in Children of Divorce (1927).
Jeanette MacDonald in Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour with You (1932).
Gina Lollobrigida in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). I did a write-up of Lollobrigida’s interview at the TCM Classic Film Festival, during which she shared old Hollywood memories and feisty feminist wisdom!
Sophia Loren in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963).
Joan Blondell photographed by Bert Longworth. (Scanned from This Film Is Dangerous. Image credit: Photofest.)
Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel (1930).
Miriam Hopkins (after jazzing up her lingerie) in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931).
Miriam Hopkins and Claudette Colbert in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), which was one of my 10 personal highlights from the TCM Classic Film Festival.
Sophia Loren in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963).
Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman in Millie (1931).
Myrna Loy in Sam Wood's The Barbarian (1933).
Joan Bennett perfumes herself in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945).
Daniela Bianchi in Terence Young's From Russia with Love (1963).
A risqué trick illustration in The Thin Man (1934).