We Had Faces Then

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Bette Davis, 1946

Wrestlers at the McGill Boxing, Wrestling and Fencing Club, Montreal, 1925

Joan Crawford, 1943

 

Simone Signoret and Paul Meurisse in Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
 

At a café in Finsbury Park, London, 1958, photo by Don McCullin
 

Anthony Perkins and Melina Mercouri, 1962, in Greece during the filming of Phaedra

Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich, 1930s, photo by Hyman Fink
 

Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931)
 

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on their wedding day, 21 May 1945
 

Steve McQueen, 1950s

Bette Davis, 1938

 

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961).
Of course you already know that.