Happy Mother's Day

Audrey Hepburn with son Sean Ferrer

Betty Grable with daughters Vicki and Jessica James

Susan Hayward with sons Timothy and Gregory Barker

Lauren Bacall with son Stephen Bogart

Linda Darnell with daughter Charlotte "Lola" Marley

Rita Hayworth with daughter Rebecca Welles

Sophia Loren with son Edoardo Ponti

Joan Crawford with daughters Cathy Crawford and Cynthia Crawford

Jayne Mansfield with daughter Jayne Marie Mansfield

Judy Garland with daughter Lorna Luft

Angela Lansbury with daughter Deirdre Shaw and son Peter Shaw

Lana Turner with daughter Cheryl Crane

Doris Day with son Terry Melcher

Elizabeth Taylor with son Michael Wilding, Jr. and daughter Liza Todd Burton

Skirts Ahoy

Ann Miller, c. 1940

Rita Hayworth in My Gal Sal (20th Century Fox, 1942)
Costume designer: Gwen Wakeling

Ginger Rogers in Lady In The Dark (Paramount, 1944)
Costume designer: Edith Head

Linda Darnell in Hangover Square (20th Century Fox, 1945)
Costume designer: René Hubert

Jane Russell in The French Line (RKO, 1954)
Costume designer: Michael Woulfe

Marilyn Monroe in River Of No Return (20th Century Fox, 1954)
Costume designer: Travilla

Betty Grable in Three For The Show (Columbia, 1955)
Costume designer: Jean Louis

Over The Edge

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable, turning down the meaty role of the doomed, drunken Sophie in The Razor's Edge (1946), for which Anne Baxter eventually won an Oscar

Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (20th Century Fox, 1946)

"I'm an actress, not a personality. It's more successful to be a personality." -- Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter in Carnival Story (RKO, 1954)

"Are you kidding? Fans would expect me to rise up out of the water with lily pads in my hair, singing 'Hooray for Hollywood.'" -- Betty Grable, referring to Sophie's dipsomaniacal demise at the bottom of the Seine in The Razor's Edge

Betty Grable in Three for the Show (Columbia, 1955)

Put The Blame On Lamé

The original version of a soon-to-be iconic dress. Ginger Rogers in Dreamboat (Fox, 1952)

Betty Grable performing on an episode of Shower Of Stars (CBS, 1954)

Marilyn Mawell performing onstage in Las Vegas, 1954

Jeanne Crain and Paul Brinkman at the premiere of Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (UA, 1955)

Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay at the premiere of The Spirit Of St. Louis (Warner Bros., 1957)

The legendary version. Publicity for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Fox, 1953)

Classy Brass

"I thought Alice Faye had more class to her looks." - Marilyn Monroe on Betty Grable

You Gotta Have a Gimmick

A cocktail and a fag always worked for us.

Just Three Little Girls with a Dream

Funny How We've Changed Places

Twisted Sisters

Self Love

Miss Novak appears courtesy DU GUINGOIS