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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 1, 2023 2:23:21 GMT
MGM publicity photography of Ava Gardner by Eric Carpenter, shot between 1941 and 1944.
1941
Ava is studying at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood and plans to take up the movies as a career.
Some tennis shoes! And what's powering the water cooler?
1942
May 1942
1943
1944
MGM Studio mug shot, 1942
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 4, 2023 3:13:58 GMT
More from the Ava pinup folder. I've not been able to confirm the photographers or the years for any images in this set, though most are probably by Eric Carpenter and from the mid to late 1940s.
I'm not even sure this is Ava
This looks like the same suit from the 1942 fishing photo
A personal favorite, maybe 1945
A Tumblr poster says this is from 1948, which fits if that's an LP in her hand
Getty says this is 1952
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Post by Fading Fast on Feb 4, 2023 10:22:00 GMT
To your note, I don't know, but this looks like her to me.
And thanks for the pictures of Ava, they are fun to see.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 4, 2023 11:30:51 GMT
To your note, I don't know, but this looks like her to me.
That could be my mom, for all I know. I copied it from an Ava fan blog on Tumblr that has dates for other photos but not this one. I don't see it anywhere else.
Yes this looks like Ava, I just wish I knew when and where. It doesn't look like a professional photo, so maybe her sister snapped it upon their arrival in Hollywood. (But then, were sailors wandering through Hollywood parking lots in August 1940?)
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 19, 2023 2:44:01 GMT
Stella Stevens through the 1960s
As Appassionata Von Climax in Li'l Abner, 1959
1960 London, November 1961
By Maurice Kay, London 1964
Cover photo of Adam magazine, January 1967 issue
1968
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 24, 2023 22:08:27 GMT
Texas beauty Tula Ellice Finklea, born in Amarillo on March 8, 1922 and nicknamed Sid by her brother, her elder by 13 months who could not yet pronounce sis, began studying ballet at age 6 at her father's urging to help her recover from polio.
By age 12 she was studying more formally in Los Angeles, where she met dancer Nico Charisse, 14 years her senior. She later became a member of the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo where she danced under Russian pseudonyms while touring Europe where she again met Nico who, finding her all grown up by then, married her in Paris in 1939.
Gouache on paper by Ludvig Madsen, 1939 After the demise of the Ballet Russe, the Charisses returned to Los Angeles where Sid gave birth to their son, Nicky, in 1942. She also began accepting dancing parts in movies, where she was noticed by choreographer Robert Alton and was soon signed by MGM. There, producer Arthur Freed changed the spelling of her name to the more stylized Cyd.
Just before her rise to fame began with her first speaking part, Life magazine featured photos of her taken on Santa Monica Beach by Peter Stackpole in 1945.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Mar 12, 2023 6:32:04 GMT
In August of 1988, German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh (1944 - 2019) shot these photos on Santa Monica beach for Vogue. They were rejected as unsuitable for a fashion magazine, unstylish, unglamorous. The images were filed away until a couple of years later, when a new editor discovered them, published them, and launched the models into stardom.
Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz (1966 - 2023), and Christy Turlington
Vogue later called this the most important fashion image of the 1980s
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