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Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland captured enjoying a summer getaway on the French Riviera. (1970)
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Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland captured enjoying a summer getaway on the French Riviera. (1970)

Marty Feldman and Canadian actress Dayle Haddon enjoying the nightlife on Via Veneto in Rome. (1976)By 1976, Marty Feldm...
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Marty Feldman and Canadian actress Dayle Haddon enjoying the nightlife on Via Veneto in Rome. (1976)

By 1976, Marty Feldman was internationally recognizable after playing Igor in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. But Feldman had spent years behind the camera before becoming famous in front of it. He wrote extensively for British radio and television and worked alongside performers who would become part of the Monty Python generation.

Dayle Haddon was one of Canada’s most successful international models of the era. Born in Montreal, she had trained as a dancer, won Miss Montreal at 18 and later appeared on the cover of the 1973 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. By the mid-1970s she was dividing her career between modeling and acting in Europe and North America.

Feldman later became a writer, director and film star before dying unexpectedly of a heart attack in Mexico City in 1982 while working on Yellowbeard. He was only 48.

Added Fact: Feldman was buried near two of his comedy idols, Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel. His funeral drew about 100 friends and relatives and featured Dixieland jazz rather than a traditionally somber service.

A rare shot of Marvin before his 1994 accident 😮📸
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A rare shot of Marvin before his 1994 accident 😮📸

Elizabeth Montgomery. Sam on Bewitched.
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Elizabeth Montgomery. Sam on Bewitched.

A joyful young Marine dances the twist with Jayne Mansfield at the U.S. Naval Station, Newfoundland, 1961 — a playful mo...
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A joyful young Marine dances the twist with Jayne Mansfield at the U.S. Naval Station, Newfoundland, 1961 — a playful moment of 1960s fun.

Meryl Streep photographed by Henry Wolf, 1982.
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Meryl Streep photographed by Henry Wolf, 1982.

In 1958, Marilyn Monroe teamed up with renowned photographer Richard Avedon for a distinctive photographic series that p...
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In 1958, Marilyn Monroe teamed up with renowned photographer Richard Avedon for a distinctive photographic series that paid tribute to five famous actresses from earlier generations of entertainment. Monroe recreated images associated with Lillian Russell, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, and Marlene Dietrich, interpreting each star through her own distinctive presence.

The project appeared in the Christmas issue of Life magazine and showed Monroe moving between different eras of Hollywood and popular culture. Russell had been one of the major stage stars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bara became one of silent cinema’s earliest screen icons, Bow was celebrated as the “It Girl” of the 1920s, Harlow became one of the defining blonde stars of the early 1930s, and Dietrich had established an international career spanning German and American cinema.

Avedon, who had photographed Monroe extensively, considered her an unusually expressive subject for still photography. The series was accompanied by a personal contribution from Monroe’s husband, playwright Arthur Miller, who wrote an article titled “My Wife, Marilyn.”

Rather than simply copying the earlier photographs, Monroe interpreted the women she portrayed, using costumes, poses, expressions, and staging to evoke their established public images. The resulting photographs became a striking record of Monroe engaging directly with the actresses and screen personas who had helped shape the visual history of American entertainment.

Dolly Parton visiting U.S. soldiers during Operation Desert Storm, 1991.
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Dolly Parton visiting U.S. soldiers during Operation Desert Storm, 1991.

A woman on a pay phone, City Island, The Bronx, New York. 1980s. 📞 (Photo by Ron Terner)
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A woman on a pay phone, City Island, The Bronx, New York. 1980s. 📞 (Photo by Ron Terner)

Champs-Élysées in Paris, c. 1907
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Champs-Élysées in Paris, c. 1907

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