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Marilyn Monroe poses with her dog Maf Honey at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1961. He was a gift from Frank Sinatra.
Photos by Eric Skipsey
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
Thoughts of Prince Andrei, War and Peace Bk XII, Ch. 16
James Norton as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, War and Peace (BBC 2016)
”Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin. Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in. Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove. Dance me to the end of love. Dance me to the end of love.”
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“It was one of those March nights when it is as if winter wants to claim its own back and with desperate malice pours out its last snows and storms.”
— From “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy.
That’s how it feels when memories of you make your way into my mind unexpectedly, just for a second, like the flash bright flash of a Polaroid camera.
Elizabeth Taylor during a glamour shoot, 1950s
The Art of Jon Whitcomb
Elizabeth Taylor, Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Leslie Caron, Ingrid Bergman, Deborah Kerr, Janet Leigh
Whilst it’s not high art the images are very endearing, irresistible and unforgettable.
Elizabeth Taylor for The Girl Who Had Everything, 1953. Photo by Virgil Apger
Elizabeth Taylor painting the Southern California landscape, 1945.
Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean taking a break on the set of Giant, 1955