costumesonscreen:

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Costume design by Marjorie Wahl

deforest:

_{Dorothy Dandridge by David Sutton, 1955}

mouroes:

endless list of favourite female characters: Maria Acuna
↳ You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

‘I am not such a clever one about the latest fads. I admit, I was never one adored by local lads… not that I ever tried to be a saint. I’m the type that they classify as… quaint.’

Eleanor Powell, c. 1930s.

gregory-peck:

She’s gone. They’re gone. They’re gone, I tell you. Both of them! They’re gone and there’s nobody else here but me! I know it! I can feel it! And I can remember. I can remember everything. Mama and Papa and Bonnie… I can remember. Oh, I can remember, I can remember!
Joanne Woodward as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Tony Curtis, c. 1950s.

eveninginbed:

Carmen Miranda as Princess Querida O'Toole in Greenwich Village (1944)

deforest:

Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Bob Willoughby at the baby shower she and Barbara Thompson gave for Marilyn Hilton, 1950