We Had Faces Then

George O’Brien in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (FW Murnau, 1927)

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Salvador Dali, 1951, photo by Arnold Newman

Mary Martin as Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, 1949, photo by Philippe Halsman

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Mitzi Gaynor, 1950s

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Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940 (Norman Taurog)

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Philadelphia,1964, photo by Ray K Metzker

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Beach Fashion with Hoola Hoop, 1930, photo by George Hoyningen-Huene

Joan Bennett, 1945. Her hair.

Deanna Durbin in Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak, 1944)

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Jean-Paul Sartre, 1965, in Nida, Lithuania, photo by Antanas Sutkus 

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Little Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South, escorted by U.S. Marshals for her safety. New Orleans, 14 November 1960

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Peggy Cummins and John Dall in Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis, 1950).

Excited because I’m going to see this on the big screen tonight at Cinema 21 here in Portland.

Later: It was fabulous.