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[August 19th, 1946] Bill Clinton is born in Hope, Arkansas. His father, a traveling salesman, died three months before his birth.
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[August 19th, 1946] Bill Clinton is born in Hope, Arkansas. His father, a traveling salesman, died three months before his birth.

u/MonsieurA — 6 hours ago
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Marlon Brando sitting on a porsche reading during his time studying for his role in the movie The Men (USA, 1949).

u/Familiar_Bid_3655 — 15 hours ago
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Norma Jeane Mortenson, aka Marilyn Monroe, late 1940s

u/Wedirome — 10 hours ago
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Florence Marly, Humphrey Bogart and set visitor Gloria Grahame during the filming of 'Tokyo Joe' (1949)

u/Brassac — 18 hours ago
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Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill shortly after their wedding in Carpinteria California in1943. Charlie was 54 and she was only 18.

u/Initial_Reason1532 — 3 days ago
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Bessie Stringfield in 1940 surrounded by friends that were supporting her on travels when she went solo across 48 States alone, during the height of the Jim Crow era. She relied on black communities for her lodging on her journeys and support because she wasn't allowed to stay at other hotels.

She shattered boundaries by riding solo across this country braving hostile roads cross a deeply segregated Nation at the time. She was a true American pioneer and a enduring icon of liberation.

u/Initial_Reason1532 — 4 days ago
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Dorothy Dandridge posing in a dynamic stage costume with fishnet stockings (1944)

u/DoberLunch4 — 4 days ago
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Marilyn Monroe at the pool of the hotel in Jones Beach,Long Island, New York, July of 1949. Prmoting the her film "Love Happy". Kodachrome shots

u/Electrical-Aspect-13 — 5 days ago