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Maila Nurmi (Vampira) and friend Jack Simmons (dressed as James Dean) October 30 1956.
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"Entertainment is not the reality of the streets. I think we should depict that and show it as it is, but we get it in the news. When it comes to entertainment, we should have a fantasyland… a chance to get away from the reality in the streets and dream a little, hope a little and laugh a little. Surely that’s not asking too much."
Lucille Ball, 1982 interview
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Sixteen-year old Jacqueline Bouvier vamps for the camera at a Newport tennis court.
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Elvis Presley & Sophia Loren (1958) According to Bob Willoughby, the photographer who snapped these candids, Loren spotted 23-yr-old Presley eating lunch in the Paramount commissary and decided to go over & introduce herself. Which is to say, she promptly sat in his lap, gave him a kiss, & began mussing his carefully sculpted pompadour. He didn’t mind.
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365 Films Challenge | 51
The Rains Came (1939)
Clark Gable and a giraffe during the filming of Mogambo (1953).
"Ingrid, she was a natural. Three strokes of a hairbrush, and her shining hair was perfect. She washed it herself. No other actress I’ve ever known would or could do that. Nothing about her was ever ‘fixed’, because she had been so blessed that everything about her was perfect." (George Cukor)
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MGM dropped me right back into the vamp mold, loaning me to RKO for Thirteen Women. I methodically murder all the white schoolmates who had patronized me. Betty Furness had started at RKO doubled for my hands in closeups when I was busy elsewhere. She’d been dropped from the film. “You were lucky.” I told her. “Because I just would have killed you, too.” The only one who had escaped me in that picture was Irene Dunne, I regretted it every time she got the parts I wanted.
-Myrna Loy on Thirteen Women (1932)
Sighted on location of the film Rosemary’s Baby on August 27, 1967 at Tiffany’s in New York City. Photo by Ron Galella.
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Katharine Hepburn photographed by Cecil Beaton
