1920s + Dresses

SAFETY LAST! (1923)

Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

James Dean and Geraldine Page photographed by Dennis Stock, NYC, 1955

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934.

me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight

"But how can you compare Harlow and Garbo, Swanson and Shearer, or Gable and Tracy with any luminary today? Maybe it's just an old timer's sentiment. But today's faces lack depth of feeling. Two world wars and many minor ones have almost changed the face of the globe itself. Why not our actors? As I watch on television many of the stars I once photographed, I look at them as one might old paintings. Some can't stand up to today's demanding audience; others will be as magnetic a hundred years from now. I am sure the Mona Lisa and the face of Greta Garbo will inspire and puzzle for all time." —Clarence Sinclair Bull, photographer

(From Hollywood in Kodachrome: 1940–1949 by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt, 2013)

Paul Henreid and Bette Davis - Now, Voyager 1942

Shoes, 1916 (dir. Lois Weber)

Sidney Poitier photographed by Gordon Parks, 1959.

I’m not like anyone. I’m me.  

BUtterfield 8 (1960)