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Lana Turner, 1942

“It’s interesting that Mother never thought of herself as beautiful. To her, the great beauties were brunettes. Dark was beauty, while women like herself and Betty Grable were bubbly, popular, and pretty, but not beautiful.  The epitome of beauty to Mother was Hedy Lamarr. She was so impressed by an entrance Hedy made at Ciro’s, glamour personified and wearing a single diamond on her forehead at her widow’s peak. Years later Mother was still impressed, telling me she had never seen anyone look as manificent in her life. Nevertheless, Mother didn’t do badly with what she had.”

- Cheryl Crane

JEAN HARLOW in DINNER AT EIGHT — 1933, dir. George Cukor

Welsh actor Ivor Novello on a vintage postcard

Premiere night for Psycho. Times Square, New York City, 1960

Maturity is when you stop trying to convince other people to treat you right. You just observe their choices, understand their character, and decide what you’re going to allow in your life.

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Clara Bow

Buster Keaton ❥

“She’s like catnip to every cat in town.”

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in BUTTERFIELD 8 (1960).

Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer (1902–1983) preparing for a dialogue on the balcony in movie Romeo and Juliet (1936)