Screen Stars on the Beach

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

Bo Derek, with her hair in cornrows for perhaps her most famous role as Samantha Taylor in the 1979 movie 10

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen on an LA beach in the film Annie Hall from 1978

The French actress, known simply as Annabella, who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952, is pictured on the beach in 1935

Frances Dee frolics on the beach with her German shepherd in 1933

Actress Dorothy Arnold, pictured with her then husband, the baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in May 1952

Lilyan Tashman wears a silk crepe costume of white, navy blue, and turquoise blue, in this picture from 1931

Mary Howard and Ann Morris show off some early 1940s-style swimwear as they frolic with a ball in the summer of 1941

Miriam Hopkins enjoys a game of backgammon on the beach after finishing filming The Smiling Lieutenant in 1931

Monkeying around: The manufactured pop band the Monkees - David Jones, Peter Tork, Mickey Braddock and Mike Blessing - lark about on the beach in 1966

Actress Pola Negri relaxies on the beach at Santa Monica in a picture believed to have been taken around 1925

Estelle Taylor, one of the biggest stars of the silent era, listens to the radio at a beach near Hollywood in 1924

Greta Garbo takes a dip in the Pacific ocean shortly after her arrival in Hollywood in 1926