We Had Faces Then

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

Guy Madison in a publicity shot for the 3-D western The Charge at Feather River (Gordon Douglas, 1953)

Marlene Dietrich, 1935

Photo booth, 1920s

Salvador Dali, 1944, photo by Johan Hagemeyer

Anthony Perkins, 1957

Joan Crawford, 1940s

Chishu Ryu in 晩春 [tr. Late Spring] by Yasujiro Ozu, 1949

Birthday Remembrance :Gloria Swanson (27 March 1899 - 4 April 1983) Photographed in New York City, 1950 by Philippe Halsman.

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)