Lillian Russell 1890s

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Wedding portrait of Reynaldo Morales and Isabel Hernandez, Orange, California 1930

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is a British American actress and singer in theatre, television and films. Her career has spanned seven decades and earned an unsurpassed number of performance Tony Awards (tied with Julie Harris and Audra McDonald), with five wins.

Dominique Sanda by Helmut Newton 1974

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Dominique Sanda, born 11 March 1951 is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born as Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne in Paris to Lucienne (née Pichon) and Gérard Varaigne. She appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sica's Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavani's Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man (with Paul Newman) and Steppenwolf (with Max von Sydow).

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."

Big man enjoying a cigar and glass of beer in a New York tavern circa 1908

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Scene from Cocteau’s Phedre - Justin Locke

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David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World 1971

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Gladys Cooper by Alexander Bassano 1910

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Mary Pickford in Dorothea Vernon 1924

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Sarah Bernhardt

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