Lauretta Schimmoler: Aviation Pioneer
Lauretta Schimmoler, aviation pioneer. Photo Credit: Source Lauretta Schimmoler was an aviation pioneer. Born on September 17, 1900 in Fort Jennings, Ohio, Lauretta was different from most ‘pioneers.’...
View ArticleJames Dean’s Safe Driving PSA
With his “devil may care” attitude, James Dean epitomized teenage rebellion. His short career of only three films (in which he had a lead role) immortalized him as a legend long after his death. Dean...
View ArticleLauren Bacall with Vice Pres. Truman, 1945
Photo Credit: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Actress Lauren Bacall sits atop the piano while Vice President Harry S. Truman plays at the National Press Club Canteen in Washington. They are at the...
View Article“Let There Be Light” (1946)
The man behind such classic Hollywood films like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, and The Misfits, also directed a documentary about the emotional and psychological traumas of war....
View ArticleVideo: Women at War Week, 1942
Video is of actress Loretta Young promoting “Woman at War” week starting November 22, 1942. The week that honored the dedication and hard work of American women who, due to the war, took on greater...
View ArticleWill Rogers doing Rope Tricks
In this 1918 video called Will Rogers Says, Humorist, actor and social commentator Will Rogers is seen doing rope tricks. The scenes switch back and forth between Rogers’ rope tricks and cue cards....
View ArticleFrank Sinatra & Faye Emerson: King & Queen of the Bock Beer Festival, 1950
Photo Credit: New York Daily News Frank Sinatra and actress Faye Emerson were crowned King and Queen of the Bock Beer Festival in 1950. Sinatra arrived 45 minutes late and Emerson refused to pose with...
View ArticleSophia Loren in a ‘Barrel of Fun’, 1958
Photo Credit: Peter Stackpole/Time & Life Pictures Sophia Loren samples the thrills at Coney Island in 1958. The caption that accompanied this image when it was published in LIFE: “A really scared...
View ArticleLucille Ball at FDR’s Birthday Ball, 1944
Lucille Ball was one of the famous faces at one of the January 1944 galas celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 62nd birthday in Washington, D.C. Lucille Ball signs autographs for admiring...
View ArticleCynthia West with Chauncey, 1952
Photo Credit: Ed Clark/LIFE On LIFE’s December 22, 1952 issue, three-year-old Cynthia West was pictured standing next to Chauncey, a three-foot-tall miniature horse. Chauncey was imported from England...
View ArticleClark Gable & Mary Astor in Red Dust, 1932
Photo Credit: Source Studio publicity photo of Clark Gable and Mary Astor for film Red Dust, 1932.
View ArticleKatharine Hepburn & the New England Hurricane of 1938
Katharine Hepburn surveys the devastation of the 1938 hurricane on the site of her family’s summer home in Fenwick, CT. Photo Credit: Connecticut Historical Society On September 21, 1938, New England...
View ArticleVideo: Marilyn Monroe Arrives in London
The newsreel shows American film star Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller arriving at a London Airport on July 19, 1956. She was in town to promote The Prince and the Showgirl with co-star...
View ArticleMug Shots: Al Jennings
Mug shot: A photograph of someone’s face especially one made for police records. The word ”mug shots” comes from the British slang word “mug” meaning “face.” Al Jennings’ mug shot right before leaving...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe in one of her last photo shoots, 1962
Photo Credit: Wikipedia Marilyn Monroe in one of her last photo shoots, by George Barris for Cosmopolitan in July 1962 at Santa Monica Beach.
View ArticleMug Shots: Steve McQueen
Mug shot: A photograph of someone’s face especially one made for police records. The word ”mug shots” comes from the British slang word “mug” meaning “face.” Photo Credit: U.S. Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn on the set of “My Fair Lady”, 1964
Photo Credit: Wikipedia Audrey Hepburn with Harry Stradling, Sr., the cinematographer, on the set of My Fair Lady in 1964.
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