Monday, June 5, 2023

Myrna Loy, 1934


Rosalind Russell with her hair in a “victory roll”, 1942


Sarah Bernhardt, 1898.


Simon MacCorkindale

Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. MacCorkindale spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father's commission with the Royal Air Force.

Some Like It Hot (1949)


Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin, 1918


Marlon Brando


Tallulah Bankhead, 1933


The Beatles at The Cavern Club


Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr CBE; (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway). She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than any other actress without ever winning. In 1994, however, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, she received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". As well as The King and I, her films include An Affair to RememberFrom Here to EternityQuo VadisThe InnocentsBlack NarcissusHeaven Knows, Mr. AllisonKing Solomon's MinesThe Life and Death of Colonel BlimpThe Sundowners and Separate Tables.

Carmen Miranda

Carmen MirandaGCIH • OMC, February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955 was a Luso-Brazilian[2] samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Gary Cooper, 1934, photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull


Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)


Marlon Brando resting during the filming of The Men (Fred Zinneman, 1950)


Gloria Swanson, 1950, photo by Philippe Halsmann


Celebrities and the dapple gangers

Mark
Zuckerberg and Philip IV - Just Two Kings with the Same Face
Two Forward Thinking Gentlemen  Jon Stewart and Henry Ward Beecher
Soccer Star Mesut Ozil and Enzo Ferrari Could Be the Same Guy
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat is a Dead Ringer for Stalin
Queen Latifah and Writer Zora Neale Hurston Might as Well Be Twins
Rupert Grint Looks Great Dressed as Painter Sir David Wilkie
Pope Gregory IX and Sylvester Stallone – Italian Doppelgängers
Painter Louis-Maurice Boutet Is Really the Immortal Keanu Reeves
Orlando Bloom and Painter-Writer Nicolae Grigorescu Are Cut from the Same Cloth
Jimmy Fallon Is the Spitting Image of Turkish Revolutionist Mahir Cayan
Hugh Grant and Oscar Wilde Could Be Twins
Hermann Rorschach Reincarnated as Brad Pitt

Ingrid Bergman in a publicity photo for Joan of Arc by Loomis Dean, 1948


Cate Blanchett


Mick Jagger and John Lennon at the Rock n Roll Circus


Paul-Newman



Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali; with his larger than life persona, athletic ability, and accomplishments there are many photos of him that are considered iconic. Because of this there are many that slip through the cracks. This is one such gem; it shows Ali literally sitting on a million dollars in 1963. The best aspect of the photo is his facial expression.

Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961


 Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961. The Sphinx seems to be enjoying it too. He’s not singing along because he doesn’t know the words.

Chet Baker in a recording session, Los Angeles, 1953, photo by William Claxton

 


The Real Lawrence of Arabia - T.E. Lawrence poses for Lowell Thomas in England.


Lana-Turner-in-Slightly-Dangerous