We Had Faces Then

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

Jean Harlow, Eddie Dillon and Robert Armstrong killing time on the set of Iron Man, 1931

A soldier reads, 1960

 

Charlotte Loeb, March 20, 1944, a photo by Johan Hagemeyer
 

Rita Hayworth, 1946, wearing a gown designed by Jean Louis in a publicity shot for Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946)

Audrey Hepburn running to receive her Oscar at the 1955 Academy Awards, she won for Roman Holiday.
 

Beautiful photo of Faye Dunaway, 1969.

Leslie Caron and Brigitte Bardot, 1954

Road Trip, 1956

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

Grace Kelly in a design by Edith Head, 1955. A publicity shot for To Catch A Thief, her last film for Alfred Hitchcock.

Anne Baxter, 1946

 

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