Sunday 16 November 2014

Random Divas and Icons


Here we are me lovelies, with an other random sample of some of my mindless wanderings on 'Tumblr'

 Norma Shearer - Queen of the M-G-M Lot.


Barbara Stanwyck photographed by Eugene Robert Richee 1940


Bea Lillie wielding a lethal lorgnette

Ethel in quotes.


Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark


The to fabulous for words - Carol Channing


'Best new comer' at the Baftas, Maggie Smith with Jon Voight.


Joan Crawford photographed by Cecil Beaton 1956.


P.G. Wodehouse.


Virginia Woolf.


That ultimate cad, Terry Thomas


Elaine Stritch on the set of Call Me Madam.



A rather dashing Richard Burton.


When smoking was cool - Sophia Loren.


I have no idea who this is but I adore her.


Ann Miller.


Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding 1925.


The fascinating,  Anna May Wong.


Yvonne De Carlo being rather stern in 'Hotel Sahara'.


Lady Diana Cooper Viscountess Norwich as as The Madonna in The Miracle


Who else but, Katharine Hepburn - ClarenceSinclairBull1942.


Cecil Beaton in1938.



And to end with 
Greer Garson "the glorious goddess of good"



With thanks to my fave tumblers


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2 comments:

  1. Another fantastic selection of photographs, darling! Particular favourites : Edna Best, Joan Crawford, Diana Cooper and Cecil Beaton...

    Jx

    PS "I have no idea who this is but I adore her" - it is none other than the wicked 'Mrs Danvers' herself, Judith Anderson!

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  2. Photos repaired 21st April 2019

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