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The Gibson Girl began appearing in the 1890s and was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness portrayed by the ...

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Born 1908 in Kiev, Ukrainian-American actress Anna Sten was spotted as an actress in Russia during an amateur performance in 1923. She went ...

Born 1940 in Berlin, German-Russian film and television actress and director Vera Tschechowa was brought up in Germany by her Russian-German...

Martha Vickers was born in 1925 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her best known role is that of Karen Sternwood, the younger sister of Lauren Bacall in the classic film noir “The Big Sleep” in 1946. Other film sinclude “Ruthless”, “Daughters of the West” and in 1960 her final film “Four Fast Guns”. Martha Vickers died […]

September is nearing its end, it’s the 27th already, and it is also the birth date of Cleo de Merode, the famous French Belle Epoque dancer and beauty. Giovanni Boldini, Cleo de Merode, 1901 …

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The gray days of winter have me looking forward to spring and lighter/brighter clothing. I scanned these from a 1949 insert of the pattern department of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The green ensemble with matching beret in the first picture has my name all over it. I love the color combination. While the 30s is my absolute favorite era, there are so many things I love about the designs of this time period too. So pretty!