#hollywood portraits

[daemonicdasein]

William Mortensen, Title unknown, The artist's first wife and muse Courtney Crawford with masks made by Mortensen, circa 1926.

[theseimmortalcoils]

Classic film star

Veronica Lake

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes on Tobay Beach, New York, 1949.

[old-movie-stars]

Sophia Loren in Rome, 1955

[kiernanshayemckay]

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Douglas Kirkland in a leopard-print hat, circa 1960s

[disease]

"TOM WAITS (TATTOO)" GREG GORMAN | HOLLYWOOD, 1979 [archival pigment print | 40 x 50"]

[semioticapocalypse]

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

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[dolorygloria]

AL PACINO portraits circa 1978

[fayegonnaslay]

Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton, 1956.

[eirene]

Orson Welles resting on a sculpture of Shakespeare.

Photographer: Cecil Beaton

Vanity Fair

[dontbestingybaby]

from Motion Picture Magazine, April 1923

original caption:

MARIE PREVOST

Someone said the flappers—the younger set—of the screen lacked erudition. So Marie Prevost posed for the above photograph before she began work on "Brass," a screen version of the Norris novel. It would seem to belie the implication. Incidentally, Miss Prevost verifies the rumor of her engagement to Kenneth Harlan. They will be wed in the green Springtime

Photographer: Alfred Cheney Johnston

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt at her apartment in Hollywood, California, May 1953.

[libertynstyle]

[kiernanshayemckay]

James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock (1955)

[alex-vncnt]

Peter Lorre

[emmaandherartblog]

Greta Garbo under the lights