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[stone-cold-groove]

Lauren Bacall.

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[luuton]

Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter spreads in a 1960s scrapbook titled Filmitähtiä 1962-63-64

#*filmitähtiä = filmstars #scrapbook #collage #vintage #1950s #1960s #ricky nelson #rock hudson #tab hunter #film stars #movie stars #old hollywood #my scans #finnish

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Gary Cooper and his bride, the former Sandra Shaw, talking to reporters at the Park Avenue home of the bride's mother just after their marriage, December 15, 1933.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Gary Cooper #reporters #journalists #Dec. 15 #15 Dec. #fur coats #vintage Hollywood #film stars #celebrity marriage #vintage NYC #smoking

[redhairclara]

Marion Davies photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston, c. early 1920s

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[dolorygloria]

Ava Gardner film stills for 'The Killers'

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[themaninthegreenshirt]

"Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible."

J.D. Salinger

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[vintagecase]

Faye Dunaway, post-Oscars at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977.

📷 - Terry O'Neill.

#Terry O'Neill #Faye Dunaway #Hollywood #Beverly Hills #Oscar #Oscars #1977 #1970s #Los Angeles #Pool #Beverly Hills Hotel #Vintage #Glamour #Film Stars

[fayegonnaslay]

Brigitte Bardot (as Maria 1) and Jeanne Moreau (as Maria 2) in Louis Malle's Viva Maria!, 1965.

#french cinema #movie stars #brigitte bardot #jeanne moreau #viva maria #Louis Malle #classic cinema #film stars #1960s cinema #bardot

[fibula-rasa]

Cosplay the Classics: Lucille Ball in the 1940s

The first time I ever saw Lucille Ball not playing Lucy Ricardo was when TCM aired Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) when I was a kid. She floored me in this movie. This woman that had branded herself on my brain via sitcom reruns as an expert comedian and legendary face puller was also this knockout glamour girl?! And it’s not that Lucy is gorgeous, I already knew that, it’s that the film treats her as such. She’s lit like a goddess and that raging technicolor photography was a match made in heaven with her red hair and bright blue eyes. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing a lot more of her film work pre-I Love Lucy, including one of my all-time favorite movies, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940).

Ball might best be known now for her masterful work in television, as a performer and a producer, but boy her journey to get there was nothing to sniff at. Ball gradually carved out her niche in pictures by the end of 1930s, when she had already been in show business for the better part of a decade. Not fully satisfied with her work in film, Ball did double duty and heavily delved into radio. Between her radio work and her growing roles in pictures, she became the newest “Queen of the Bs.” (“B” referring to B pictures, lower budget films that were typically the second feature in the double features.)

Lucy’s styling progression from the 1930s through the early 1940s

The type Ball most excelled at playing was brassy and headstrong with a penchant for banter that usually relied at least a bit on her comedic timing. The physical comedy we now know Ball excelled at is only present in fits and starts across her filmography of the 30s and 40s. Regardless, she is fantastic at delivering repartee, even when it’s not very well written.

Looking back from this side of decades of I Love Lucy continuously playing on our TVs (at least in the US), I get the feeling that lots of people might be unaware that Ball got her start in entertainment for her looks. (And that her acting and comedy skills came from diligent work!) She started as a fashion model and was a spokesmodel for Max Factor Cosmetics starting in the 1930s. Ball got her break as a Goldwyn Girl because she had the right look and good timing.

Reviewing her filmography to research this cosplay, the time around 1940 stood out as a turning point for her career (and, in turn, her look). Generally speaking in studio-era Hollywood, you knew you had made it when you became the type to cast rather than fitting the type of some other, more established star. And, when you became your own type, that was usually accompanied by a styling shift that emphasized your own features over adjusting your features to emulate another star. To illustrate, here are photos of Lucille Ball, Joan Bennett and Ginger Rogers taken when they were all working at RKO in the 1930s, alongside photos of them in the early 1940s, when they were all on their own paths. Ginger was a rising star for the studio in the 1930s, so hers became a dominant look. (An added note for Lucy’s career at the time, is that she was mentored by Rogers’ mother Lela at RKO.)

Ball, Bennett, and Rogers above in the 1930s and below in the 1940s

This cosplay was roughly based on Ball’s signature styling in the mid-1940s, specifically around the time she made the film Lured (1947). (A movie which I feel could have easily spawned a series.) By this point she was settled into the hair and make-up we typically associate with Lucille Ball. Her eyebrows are a relatively thick, rounded arch and generally the roundness of her eyes is accentuated, instead of trying to elongate them. Her coppery curls are arranged around the center of her forehead with hair swept up at the temples. Her lipstick is applied in a manner that leans into the fullness of her lips while also emphasizing her slightly dubious expression. While I’ll admit a lot of these styling shifts correspond with beauty trend shifts from the 1930s into the 1940s, the execution of the trends are tailored to her unlike the '30s trends, as illustrated above.

By the time Du Barry was released in 1943, Ball’s red hair was already a selling point (though it was dyed much brighter for the sake of the technicolor). Her typical hair and makeup by the time Lured came out in 1947 only changed marginally from then through the 1950s. That is to say, even updating her look with trends like shorter, tighter cuts for women’s hair and stronger contrasting lines for make-up of the 1950s, Ball found the shapes that suited her and she stuck with them. It’s a beauty paradigm that makes her a joy to emulate, even on the closet-cosplay level I operate on!

The references I used to put this cosplay together can be seen below:

I also got a little bored at the prospect of editing these images, so I tried to replicate the photographic look of full-color portraits from 1940s fan magazines. Most notably, this photo of Janet Blair from the September 1943 issue of Modern Screen Magazine:

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AND, if you want to read more about Lured, I wrote about it a few years back for Noirvember!

OR, if you want to read more about Joan Bennett, I cosplayed her a while back!

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[the-anxious-acrobat]

travelling film star concept (probably in the late 1950s)! 👠🎞️🍿

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[fashionbooksmilano]

In the spirit of St-Tropez

Henry-Jean Servat Foreword by Brigitte Bardot

Assouline Publ., New York 2003, 168 pages, 19.69 x 28.45 cm, ISBN 978-2843235061

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The best stories. A village that caresses the eye and attracted a host of artists at the turn of the twentieth century. A village whose heyday came in the middle of the 1950s, when a young Franco-Russian filmmaker brought cameras and crew to its sun dazzled beaches to make his first feature film: And God Created Woman. The shock wave created by Roger Vadim revealed a resplendent creature, a leg-end: Brigitte Bardot, rocketing to fame in the village she chose as her home, which would bask in the glory of those years forever. In its pearly haven, artists, film stars, playboys and top models would spend sun-soaked days and starry nights in affairs and adventures that have since entered the pages of history. In the Spirit of Saint-Tropez is illustrated with numerous previously unpublished photographs.

04/07/23

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[stone-cold-groove]

American film star, Myrna Loy.

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[theseimmortalcoils]

Audrey Hepburn 1956, portrait by Yusuf Karsh

#audrey hepburn #classic portraits #classic photography #silver gelatin print #classic beauty #film stars

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The flower-covered casket of Rudolph Valentino, matinee idol of the 1920s, is carried into the Church of St. Malachy for his funeral service, August 26, 1926. Valentino had died at New York Polyclinic Hospital three days earlier, of peritonitis and pleuritis. He was 31.

Photo: AP via the Denver Post

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #funeral #Rudolph Valentino #death #Church of St. Malachy #film stars #movie stars #silent film #sex symbols #matinee idols #The Great Lover #The Latin Lover

[redhairclara]

Lilian Bond, c. 1920s

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[juliehowlin]

James Stewart

Once, a customer at James Stewart's family hardware store was unable to pay his bill, and offered an old Accordion in lieu of payment. Stewart learned to play the instrument, and would have it with him on movie sets so he could play it during down time.

10 things you might not know about James Stewart:

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