Vintage Hollywood

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Bette Davis made a bid for bombshell status in
rare cheesecake publicity for her role in the
1932 pre-Code crime melodrama Three on a Match.
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Ava Gardner starred in her second film the same
year she married actor Mickey Rooney and declared
she was a virgin.
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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart visit Hawaii
with their son Stephen in 1954.
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Joan Crawford, on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, 1949,
was considered the perfect image of a movie star
by director George Cukor.
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Rita Hayworth was 19 in 1938 and on the verge of
Hollywood stardom. She became Hollywood's 'Love
Goddess'.
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Marilyn Monroe was considered a 'hot tomato' in
1950 after signing a contract with 20th Century
Fox. She had just appeared in The Asphalt
Jungle and was about to become Hollywood's
ultimate sex goddess.
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Brigitte Bardot poses in a classic 1950's one
piece swim suit in 1955.
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Janet Leigh, best known for being hacked to death
in a motel shower in Hitchcock's thriller,
Psycho, in 1960, was one of Hollywood's busiest
actresses appearing in six movies in 1949 alone.
Photo circa 1950.
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Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder. She was the
original Bond Girl in the 1962 film Dr. No.
'This bikini made me a success,' Andress is
quoted.
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Audrey Hepburn on the beach at Rottingdean, East
Susses, England, circa 1951. She was on loan
that year to Associated British Pictures Corp and
appeared in three movies but received little
attention. She was still an unknown in 1951. 
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Natalie Wood at Thaliens Beach Ball in Malibu,
California - 1956
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Ann Blyth, now at age 89, is one of the last
surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood
and made unremarkable films before being cast as
Joan Crawford's daughter in Mildred Pierce in
1945. This beach photo was taken in 1952.  
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Ginger Rogers keeps
her dancing shoes on
as she rubs suntan lotion on her legs in 1936.
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Marilyn Monroe lusciously
bathes in the Pacific
Ocean in the Fritz Lang film, Clash by Night,
1952.
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Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor sit on
the beach in 1960 just two short
years after Fisher left his wife Debbie Reynolds
for Taylor.
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Grace Kelly starred in To Catch a Thief, 1955,
the year that propelled her into the pantheon of
Hollywood film stars, onto the best-dressed list
and ultimately Monaco's royal palace.
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Joan Crawford and
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
find shade with a canine friend in 1929.
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In 1959, her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller
was crumbling and she was pregnant with his child
and preoccupied with gaining weight as well as
losing the baby.
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Kirk Douglas picks up paintress Novella Pairgini
and actress Lilly Greco on the Lido Beach in
Venice in 1953.
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Tony Curtis and
Christine Kaufman explore
the rocky beaches of Cannes, France in 1965.
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Ava Gardner practices her balance in a high
waisted two-piece suit in 1956. 
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Elizabeth Taylor in the film, Suddenly Last
Summer, 1959, was asked by her cousin to wear an
alluring white tank bathing suit. The bathing
suit became one of the most iconic swimsuits in
the history of film. 
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Marilyn Monroe and husband Joe DiMaggio walk the
beach hand-in- hand in Sarasota, Florida.
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Natalie Wood played Maria in the musical "West
Side Story", a box office and critical success
for the actress in 1961 who began her film career
as a child.
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Bette Davis and her third
husband, William Grant Sherry,
playfully pose near the Pacific Ocean in
1947.
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Raquel Welch was 'the indelible image of a woman
as queen of nature. She was a lioness fierce,
passionate and dangerously physical,' stated
Camille Paglia. 1966
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Sophia Loren gets ready to head to the water with
a Dinghy in 1951.
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Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth get playful
while applying suntan lotion at Port of
Spain, Trinidad where they were filming Fire Down
Below 1957.
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