We Had Faces Then

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

Madonna 80s

Cecil B DeMille, 1930s

Rena Mandel in Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

Sam Cooke, 1963

Mary Pickford and friends

Maria Callas, 1955, in costume as Violetta in La Traviata

Josephine Baker at the Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna, 1928

June Knight, 1935

Movie cameramen on a rock, 1948, photo by Cornel Lucas

Marlon Brando, 1950s

Julie Christie, 1967