u/Historical-Device529 — 11 hours ago
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Actress Anita Ekberg posing for Andre de Dines for photos to be used in "Esquire" magazine, 1954.
u/Electrical-Aspect-13 — 5 hours ago
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Kodachrome slide of a lady at beaches of Hawaii, resting under a palm tree, 1957.
u/Electrical-Aspect-13 — 6 hours ago
Marilyn Monroe "The Springtime of Life", near Mailbu, CA, 1946 photographed by Andre de Dienes
"One day when we were relaxing on the beach between photo sessions, I decided to capture some new expressions I had glimpsed on Marilyn's face. Getting her in close-up, I asked her to react instinctively, without giving herself time to think, to the words happiness, surprise, reflection, doubt, peace of mind, sadness, self-torment...and death."
-- Andre de Dienes quoted from Marilyn Mon Amour
u/GlitterDanger — 18 hours ago
Amsterdam, Photo by Kees Scherer, 1958.
u/AnteaterConsistent54 — 22 hours ago
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Inge Morath, Gypsy family, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954.
u/AnteaterConsistent54 — 24 hours ago
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Sophia Loren in between takes of the film of her film with Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra: The Pride and the Pasion. Spain, 1957.
u/Electrical-Aspect-13 — 1 day ago
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Marilyn Monroe posing for photographer Bert Reisfeld for promotional photos for her film "Gentlemen prefer blondes", 1953. Kodachrome shots would also be used in magazines.
u/Electrical-Aspect-13 — 2 days ago
Happy Birthday Maureen O'Hara!!!💋
🎊Happy Birthday to The Technicolor Queen herself Maureen O'Hara. 💄💋❤️
📽 Fun Fact... Maureen O'Hara was famously nicknamed "The Queen of Technicolor" because her striking red hair and green eyes looked breathtakingly vibrant in early color films!
u/SilverScreenCC — 2 days ago
Santos & Johnny "Sleep Walk" (1959)
On August 1, 1959, Italian-American brothers Santo and Johnny Farina performed their iconic instrumental hit "Sleep Walk" live on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, broadcast from the Little Theatre in Midtown Manhattan.
u/DeScepter — 3 days ago
▲ 28 r/1950s
The iconic Betty Skelton getting in the driver's seat of the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette pace car during Daytona's speed weeks in Florida. This was at the Daytona Beach and road course before the opening of the permanent speedway. She was a legendary American woman known as the "FIRST lady of First" .
In the 1950s she turned her focus towards land speed records. 1954 she became the first woman to compete in the stock car flying mile at Daytona Beach. 1956 she set nine different car speeds and acceleration records in the Corvette. She later set a Bonneville speed record at 277 MPH in a jet dragster. She proved that women could compete in male dominated sports.
u/Initial_Reason1532 — 1 day ago
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The beautiful actress Lauren Bacall standing beneath the Blue skies luxury trailer village in Rancho Mirage California. It was a upscale trailer park for Hollywoods elite to relax for a weekend retreat from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood.
Quite a few Hollywood stars invested in this project including Lauren BaCall and her husband Humphrey Bogart.
u/Initial_Reason1532 — 2 days ago
1953 Eakin Comet Jet Car. This crazy vehicle was built by Stanley Eakin in Grove City Ohio. The engine was a 60 horsepower V8 had a single front wheel suspended on a motorcycle fork. It had a top speed of 90 mph which wouldn't break any land records but the coolness was there.
The car attended Many car shows back in the '50s. And definitely had that atomic age flare for the period.
u/Initial_Reason1532 — 3 days ago
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Sophia Loren and Ettore Manni in Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)
u/Witty_Mention3138 — 3 days ago