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Curtsying lessons - actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly (1929-1982)
Actor James Dean (1931-1955), with actress Pier Angeli (1932-1971)
Actress Linda Darnell (1923-1965)
Madonna (b. 1958), channeling Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) *An earlier version of this post erroneously captioned the image as Marilyn Monroe. This is in fact a tribute to Monroe with Madonna as the subject.
Model Veronica Scott. Photographed by Brian Kirley, c. 1953
“The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful” - Actress Barbara La Marr (1896-1926), c. 1920
“ “We have to celebrate all that women have achieved in such a short period of time. This is the most exciting time to be dressing a woman. Never before has a woman been so in control of her destiny. My inspiration is always the anonymous woman on...
“ “‘I wasn’t interested in getting married,” she recalled. “I was involved in the theater.” [Louis] Schweitzer pursued her. During a business trip to France he telephoned and told her he was sending a ticket and that they would get married in Paris....
“ “I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realization of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and...
“ “I honestly believe Bebe Daniels is the most popular girl in Hollywood. Mary Pickford is undoubtedly the most loved woman in Hollywood. Betty Compson has perhaps more close personal friends and admirers than anyone else. But the most popular girl...
“ “You know, Carole, for a long time now whenever a girl or a woman has come to me weeping or bitter because some love affair has ended[,] I’ve always thought of you. And wished the girl or woman in question might have a little of the swell, healthy...
“ “…I must say, for a charming, intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a remarkable collection of dopes.” -Dana Andrews, as Detective McPherson, to Gene Tierney, in Otto Preminger’s film, Laura, 1944 ” Actress Gene Tierney...
“ “[Harlow was] a blonde bombshell whose bleached hair, voluptuous body, and bawdy humor inspired a fervent cult following that remains to this day. […] [Yet] Harlow had to be someone she wasn’t, because she never knew who she was…” -Biographer David...
“ “Do not be so bloody vulnerable. To hell with God damned "L'Amour.” It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don’t run after it. Don’t court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you’re good and ready for it and even then treat it with the...
“ “I didn’t give a damn about [being a sex symbol]…it was better to be there and be sexy than ugly […] I am shocking, impertinent[,] and insolent [and] that’s how it is.” Brigitte Bardot, in a brief interview with Ella Alexander of Vogue UK,...