30 vintage photos from the era of old Hollywood (31 photos)
Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh - all these divas are still live in the hearts of modern moviegoers, and with them nostalgia for those times when in the Hollywood firmament almost every day new bright stars appeared. This photo collection invites you to take a dip in the most resplendent, elegant and glamorous era of Hollywood.
1. Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe at Tiffany's in Hollywood, 1954
2. Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott hold hands between takes on the set of Riders of the Shadows, 1982. The actors have been married since 1984.
3. The real Maria von Trapp with director Robert Wise and actor Christopher Plummer on the set of The Sound of Music, 1965
When she first saw Christopher, Maria declared: "You are much more beautiful than my real husband!"
When she first saw Christopher, Maria declared: "You are much more beautiful than my real husband!"
4. Shirley MacLaine with daughter Sachi, 1959
5. Patty Duke with the real Helen Keller on the set of The Miracle Worker, 1962
6. Make-up artist Jack Pierce with actor Boris Karloff on filming Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. Karloff considered Pierce "the best make-up artist in the world"
7. June Lockhart swims with her cat George, 1963
8. Audrey Hepburn in a Dior dress for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, Paris, 1959
9. Groucho Marx and Lucille Ball fooling around in the KNX radio studio, 1945
10. Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier aboard the aircraft carrier Monticello, New York, 1945. Photo by Irving Haberman
11. Debbie Reynolds, New to Hollywood, Arrives at Warner Bros., 1948
12. Vivien Leigh as Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Old Vic Theatre, London, 1937
13. Sammy Davis Jr. visits Elvis Presley backstage at the Showroom International Hotel in Las Vegas, 1970.
14. Judy Garland on the set of the iconic "Get Happy" number in the film "Summer Tour", 1950
15. Elizabeth Taylor visiting Elton John backstage at the Spectrum Theater in Philadelphia, 1976. Photo by David Nutter
16. Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine on the set of "Two mule for sister Sarah" in Durango, Mexico, 1969. Photo by Lawrence Schiller
17. Casablanca star Humphrey Bogart in his youth
18. Marilyn Monroe talking on the phone in her home in Amagansett, New York, 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw
19. On the set of "Rebel Without a Cause", 1955
20. 16-year-old Ruby Stevens (better known as Barbara Stanwyck) while working as "Ziegfeld Girl", 1924
21. Michael Caine picturedabout Stephen S. Archetta, 1965
22. Director Richard Brooks discusses a scene with Paul Newman on the set of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958.
23. Katharine Hepburn photographed by George Heuningen-Huen, 1934
24. Clint Eastwood and director Sergio Leone on the set of A Fistful of Dollars, 1964
25. Anne Bancroft prepares for her role in The Miracle Worker, 1959. Photo by Nina Lin
26. Sharon Tate at Heathrow Airport, London, with a bag advertising a book of poems by Bob Dylan "Tarantula". 1966
27. Richard Avedon and Sophia Loren in their studio in New York, 1966. Photo by Tazio Secchiaroli
28. Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson on the set of Giant, 1956
29. Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu during their wedding ceremony at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, May 1, 1967
30. Actress Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, for which she won an Oscar at the age of 10 (1973)