Showing posts with label ava gardner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ava gardner. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Plays Well With Others


"Ava, I grew up in Brooklyn with Murder Incorporated as my playmates...Ava, you know I mean it." -- Shelley Winters confronting Ava Gardner over the latter's affair with her husband, Tony Franciosa


Friday, May 3, 2013

Stolen Moments

 
Marlene Dietrich in No Highway in the Sky (20th Century Fox, 1951)
Designer: Christian Dior
Greer Garson in Her Twelve Men (MGM, 1954)
Designer: Helen Rose
Sophia Loren in furs by Révillon Frères, 1959
Rita Hayworth in Pal Joey (Columbia, 1957)
Designer: Jean Louis
 
Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern, 1962
Mamie Van Doren in Ceil Chapman, 1954
Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa (United Artists, 1954)
Designer: Fontana
Joan Fontaine in Serenade (Warner Bros., 1956)
Designer: Howard Shoup
Joan Crawford by Eve Arnold, 1959

Elizabeth Taylor, c. 1957
If you've got 'em, sling 'em.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Black Out

Jane Russell, 1971

Jennifer Jones in Tender is the Night (1962, 20th Century Fox)

Ava Gardner in Earthquake (1974, Universal)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Heads and Shoulders Above the Rest

"Ava was down. I felt more warmth from her than from, say, Lana. Lana was a litle more aware of being a 'star'." - Lena Horne on her fellow MGM goddesses