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Billy Wilder dancing with Audrey Hepburn on set of SABRINA (1954)

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She seemed to have been carved either from the moon or from some rare or discontinued batch of Dresden. She fell apart very early and very quickly. I never saw cruelty or coldness in Vivien. She appeared, at a very young age, to turn into a lovely stalk of chalk, and the chipping away had begun, and you were there to see the flaking off. So many of us, I can attest, tried to do what we could, but there was - and is - nothing really to do. The destiny that gave her that magic that surrounded her came, I hate to think, with some exorbitant debts, and those debts were collected early and bluntly and swiftly. I love what Tennessee said about Vivien, and I agree with him. Let's be gentle.

– Alec Guinness, 1991

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Bette Davis deep in conversation with her sister Bobby #DailyBette

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SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (1955)

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HM Queen Elizabeth and HRH The Princess Margaret Rose at a Royal Film Performance. London, 1951.

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Cecil Beaton. Princess Gayatri Devi (Maharani of Jaipur, 1940.

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Mark Kauffman. Little girl holding a kitten during the blessing of the animals, England, 1949.

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Gloria perceived life through an emotional haze. She reminded me of someone in a fairy tale who was waiting for Prince Charming to sweep all the bad dreams away. And always there was the glitter and glaze in her eyes. - JIM MURRAY

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LITTLE WOMEN (2017) They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror. A set of silver filagree was added, bracelets, necklace, brooch, and even earrings, for Hortense tied them on with a bit of pink silk which did not show. A cluster of tea-rose buds at the bosom, and a ruche, reconciled Meg to the display of her pretty, white shoulders, and a pair of high-heeled silk boots satisfied the last wish of her heart. A lace handkerchief, a plumy fan, and a bouquet in a shoulder holder finished her off, and Miss Belle surveyed her with the satisfaction of a little girl with a newly dressed doll. “Mademoiselle is charmante, tres jolie, is she not?”

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William Vanderson. Spring Feeling. 1935

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Marguerite Churchill

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“Early on I learned the value of pretty things… to love the feel of soft fabrics against me, delicate laces, lush velvets, and fine linens. I loved always to have my rooms dainty around me, with flowers in them, smelling sweet. People called me ‘a fastidious little thing’.” 

- Hedy Lamarr

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Wedding Rehearsal, 1932, Alexander Korda

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Hedwig Kiesler, Salzburg, around 1935 © Anthony Loder Archive. From "Lady Bluetooth. Hedy Lamarr" exhibition. | src Jüdisches Museum Wien on FB

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Yva     Woman Reading Newspaper, Berlin     1932

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Aufsberg Lala: Blüten, um 1936, Flora