LIFE With Rita Hayworth: Hollywood Legend, Pinup Icon
With the possible exception of Betty Grable—and her fabled legs—no single Hollywood star was more popular with American troops during World War II than the actress and dancer Rita Hayworth. Thanks to...
View ArticleTaylor and Clift: Photos From the Set of ‘A Place in the Sun’
In the rife, overstuffed annals of Hollywood, few real-life love stories can match that of Liz Taylor and Montgomery Clift. That Clift was gay made little difference in the intensity and duration of...
View ArticleSomething Wild: At Home With Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a 400-Pound Lion
Tippi Hedren, perhaps most famous for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, is an actress of formidable gifts. Hitch himself said, when directing her in that classic film, that Hedren had “a faster...
View ArticleLIFE With Hedy Lamarr: Stardom, Scandal and One Amazing Invention
She was a glamorous movie star of the 1930s and ’40s, a taboo-breaking beauty credited with simulating the first on-screen orgasm (outside of pornography movies, of course) and appearing naked in the...
View ArticleLIFE With Bob Hope: Classic Photos of an American Wisecracker
Bob Hope was a man of contradictions. One of the most popular and best-loved American comedians of the 20th century, he was, in fact, born in England. (He became a U.S. citizen in 1920.) A model of...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe at Home in Hollywood: Color Portraits, 1953
“Godlike” is perhaps too strong a word for their unique allure; nevertheless, there is something near-mythic about the hold that our cherished icons retain, even decades after they’ve died, on the...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe: Rare Early Photos, 1950
Few stars of the 1950s were so compelling, so singular, that they came to define the era in which they lived and in which they created their most enduring work. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars....
View ArticleLIFE With Natalie Wood: Portraits of a Legend
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko in San Francisco at the height of the Great Depression, Natalie Wood (“Natasha” to close friends) was one of those rare stars who managed to combine old-school...
View ArticleLIFE With Jack Nicholson: Early Photos of an Actor on the Brink
As difficult as it might be to fathom today — when the man known to all the world as “Jack” has journeyed from respected actor to movie star to superstar to pop-culture touchstone — as hard as it might...
View Article‘It’s a Wonderful Life': Rare Photos From the Set of a Holiday Classic
Far more than a mere plot device heralding George Bailey’s dark night of the soul (and his joyful return to the land of the living), softly falling snow is something of a central character in Frank...
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