#1950 cinema

[sharon-tate]

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Philippe Halsman at La Vigna in Italy, 1954

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe on a train to Alberta in Jasper, August 1953.

[poppingmary]

Audrey Hepburn in a Givenchy - Love in the Afternoon - 1957

[smokeprettyeve]

Audrey Hepburn & Dovima photographed by Richard Avedon on the set of Funny Face (1957) ♡

[judy1926]

Marilyn Monroe at the rockefeller Center to inaugurate the construction of the new Time-Life Building (1957)

[sovietpostcards]

The Carnival Night directed by Eldar Ryazanov (1956)

[velvet4510]

Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.

[weirdlandtv]

A gallery of rare & unpublished Brigitte Bardot photos. (Mostly culled from old magazines and the like.) She’ll turn 90 this September.

[semioticapocalypse]

Andre de Dienes. Marilyn Monroe. Breakfast in Bed. 1953

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[margotfonteyns]

Dorothée Blanck evoking Velázquez’s The Rokeby Venus in a scene from L’Opéra-Mouffe (Agnès Varda, 1958)

"Her body is never entirely still, but she wriggles, moves it naturally, stretching, unselfconscious with her back to the camera, so her body is seen in its lived dimensions even as she is framed in the pictorial setting. The moving of flesh and skin is part of the reclining nude imagined here. She never settles into a fixed ideal so that she is seen as living, as lovelier because she moves and feels. Varda opens the painting to this different apprehension of female nakedness. She references Velázquez and salutes the visual beauty and melancholy of his image, yet also tenderly unfreezes the pose. This mobility is part of the relation to tradition Varda establishes, which is reverent and irreverent all at once. Her work is enriched by the precursor images to which she refers but Varda claims freedom of association and repurposing, a liberty expressed in the very literal movement in and shaking up of the timeless still pose." — Emma Wilson, The Reclining Nude

[sharon-tate]

Pier Angeli photographed by Allan Grant for LIFE magazine, 1954

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Elliott Erwitt on the set of The Seven Year Itch, 1954.

[keepscrollinghun]

Olivia (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry ↳ based on Dorothy Bussy's semi-autobiographical novel Olivia (1949).

[toshiros-hands]

Toshiro Mifune in "Tokyo Sweetheart" (1952)

[soft-homestyle]

Hedy Lamarr

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