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Encore Lili Damita?
Yes of course! More fabulous outfits....
#vintagefashion #1930s #1920s
Shots of Lili Damita outfits in the 1920s
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#vintagefashion #1920s #flappers #hats
Shot to fame as The Body after her role Abbot & Costello's Pardon my Sarong 1942 and posed in military magazine The Yank, hugely popular as a servicemen's pin up thereafter. Smoking in stockings pic 1939 mag "Stocking Parade"
As Claire Quintana in Death of a Gunfighter, the western with Richard Widmark 1969, The dress was by Helen Colvig, who did many of the fabulous dresses in westerns in film & tv.
#BornthisDay June 30 1917 #singer #dancer #actress civil rights activist #StyleIcon Lena Horne. Film roles inc Stormy Weather,I Dood it, Meet me in Las Vegas Duchess of Idaho & Death of a Gunfighter. One biggest nightclub acts C20th best known song of course Stormy Weather
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Voted one of top ten beautiful women in Italy, Anna Moffo hosted own tv show Germany, so very famous Europe though born USA; won Fulbright scholarship to study Italy returned debut Lyric Opera of Chicago on October 1957.
top right pic she models #Valentino
#vintagefashion
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#BornthisDay 20 June 1934 #actress & #StyleIcon Rossana Podestà. Italian actress born Libya, most famous sword & sandal roles Helen of Troy (recited lines couldn't speak English then) & Ulysees, became Mod icon in 1960s with 7 Golden Men & 7 Golden Men Strike Again roles.
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#BornthisDay 18 June 1891 #StyleIcon #Actress Mae Busch. Silent movie vamp inc Devil's Pass Key (1920) Foolish Wives (1923) directed Erich von Stroheim, The Unholy Three (1925) Lon Chaney. Career resurrected after walk out MGM/nervous breakdown, in talkies with Laurel & Hardy 1/4
With Dali & Ferry, from her early modelling card top right, and from her disco queen days top left.
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