Yvonne De Carlo | Buccaneer’s Girl, 1950.
Happy 100th Birthday to the glorious Olivia De Havilland!
Lauren Bacall wearing two versions of the gown she made famous in her first movie To Have and Have Not, 1944. Designed by Milo Anderson, the long version was the one that made it into the film. Bacall wrote in her autobiography By Myself (1979) that during the start of her romance with Humphrey Bogart she once cut out a photo of Bogie and inserted it into the black plastic ring on her midriff while wearing this dress. She then sauntered up to him on the set, waited until he noticed the photo, and they both laughed.
Grace Kelly
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Kim Novak in the title role of the 1957 film Jeanne Eagels. (J.R. Eyerman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #1950s
Ava Gardner stunning at sixteen.
Film: Notorious Year: 1946 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant The legendary kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman was designed to skirt the Hays Code that restricted kisses to no more than 3 seconds each.
A kiss could last three seconds. We just kissed each other and talked, leaned away and kissed each other again. Then the telephone came between us, then we moved to the other side of the telephone. So it was a kiss which opened and closed; but the censors couldn’t and didn’t cut the scene because we never at any point kissed for more than three seconds. We did other things: we nibbled on each other’s ears, and kissed a cheek, so that it looked endless, and became sensational in Hollywood.
- Ingrid Bergman: My Story, 1980, p. 160
Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)
Ava Gardner in “The Bribe”
James Cagney and Jean Harlow in “The Public Enemy,” 1931.
Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, California, 1941.
Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946)