Богини экрана ХХ века в пляжных фотосессиях

Экранные богини середины 1920-х — конца 1970-х годов, включая таких легенд, как Мэрилин Монро, Ава Гарднер и Грета Гарбо, в потрясающей коллекции черно-белых фотографий, сделанных на пляжах Лос-Анджелеса.

В золотую эпоху Голливуда Лос-Анджелес предлагал идеальные места для отдыха после долгих и трудных съемок в студиях по соседству. Как и сейчас, это были места, в которых было на что посмотреть и где себя показать. Уникальная коллекция пестрит фотографиями начиная с эры немого кино и таких легенд, как Эстель Тейлор и Пола Негри, и заканчивая актрисами конца 1970-х Бо Дерек и Дайан Китон.

Screen goddess Marilyn Monroe takes a break from filming in the 1950s to frolic on an LA beach. Her last completed film was The Misfits (1961), co-starring Clark Gable. She died of an overdose the following year

Ava Gardner hits the beach some time in the 1940s. Gardner's breakthrough role was in The Killers (1946). She went on to become one of Hollywood's leading actresses and was considered one of the most beautiful women of her day

 

Marjorie Helen, star of in 1959's Li'l Abner and The Manchurian Candidate from 1962, models a white pique collar swimsuit trimmed in lace and set off with a pearl, on an LA beach in 1956. The actress later changed her name to Leslie Parrish

Actress and presenter Christina Ferrare, hits the beach in a bikini in 1967. After a brief speaking part in a Batman TV episode, Ferrare starred alongside David Niven in 1968's The Impossible Years and with Cliff Robertson in J. W. Coop from 1971.Today she is known as the host of the Home and Family Show on the The Hallmark Channel

Actress Lucille Ball, turns heads on an LA beach in the strapless and sleeveless outfit she wore in the 1943 film Best Foot Forward. Ball, perhaps best known as the star of sitcom I Love Lucy, was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times

The stunning Lithuanian-American actress Ruth Roman, best known for her memorable role in the Alfred Hitchcock 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train, enjoys a paddle in 1954

Merle Oberon, who starred in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), keeps a close eye on beach activities with binoculars from her home on Tranca Beach home in 1948

June Clyde, who began her career at the age of seven on the vaudeville stage before appearing in an incredible 60 films, shows off the fad of covering yourself in cellophane to prevent sunburn in 1932

Bo Derek, with her hair in cornrows for perhaps her most famous role as Samantha Taylor in the 1979 movie 10

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen on an LA beach in the film Annie Hall from 1978

The French actress, known simply as Annabella, who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, is pictured on the beach in 1935

Frances Dee frolics on the beach with her German shepherd in 1933

Actress Dorothy Arnold, pictured with her then husband, the baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in May 1952

Lilyan Tashman wears a silk crepe costume of white, navy blue, and turquoise blue, in this picture from 1931

Mary Howard and Ann Morris show off some early 1940s-style swimwear as they frolic with a ball in the summer of 1941

Miriam Hopkins enjoys a game of backgammon on the beach after finishing filming The Smiling Lieutenant in 1931

 

 

Monkeying around: The manufactured pop band the Monkees - David Jones, Peter Tork, Mickey Braddock and Mike Blessing - lark about on the beach in 1966

Actress Pola Negri relaxies on the beach at Santa Monica in a picture believed to have been taken around 1925

Estelle Taylor, one of the biggest stars of the silent era, listens to the radio at a beach near Hollywood in 1924

Greta Garbo takes a dip in the Pacific ocean shortly after her arrival in Hollywood in 1926

 

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