theniftyfifties:

Lana Turner by the pool, 1951.

jolsette:

History Meme | [7/8] Objects → Marilyn Monroe's white dress

_{Marilyn Monroe wore a white dress in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder. The dress was created by costume designer William Travilla and was worn in one of the best-known scenes in the movie. The dress is regarded as an icon of film history and the image of Monroe in the white dress standing above a subway grating blowing the dress up has been described as one of the iconic images of the 20th century.}

_{Bette Davis in The Little Foxes, 1941.}

theswinginsixties:

Jimi Hendrix

The minute you try to grab hold of Dylan, he’s no longer where he was. He’s like a flame: If you try to hold him in your hand you’ll surely get burned. Dylan’s life of change and constant disappearances and constant transformations makes you yearn to hold him, and to nail him down. And that’s why his fan base is so obsessive, so desirous of finding the truth and the absolutes and the answers to him — things that Dylan will never provide and will only frustrate. … Dylan is difficult and mysterious and evasive and frustrating, and it only makes you identify with him all the more as he skirts identity.  -Todd Haynes

Cyd Charisse, 1952.

Jean Shrimpton, photographed by David Bailey, New York City, 1962.

Rosalind Russell