We Had Faces Then

Gene Kelly, 1940s. What my mother used to call “a handsome devil”, meaning he made her have naughty thoughts….

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Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in the Salvador Dali-designed (or possibly William Cameron Menzies-designed) dream sequence from Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)

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Lucille Ball in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (Loyd Bacon, 1949)

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Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra (Cecil B DeMille, 1934)

Sylvia Sidney in Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage, 1936

I’ve always loved this photo of Gary Cooper, 1934, taken by George Hoyningen-Huene

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Marie Wilson, 1930s

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Bearded sailors aboard the USS Pensacola, via The National WWII Museum Blog

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Gary Cooper, 1938, publicity shot for The Cowboy and the Lady

Women’s poker party, 1941, photo by Nina Leen for Life magazine

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Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)

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William Holden and Kim Novak, 1955, publicity shot for Picnic