They are every bit the Pacific Ocean belles, and while their swimsuits may have got skimpier as the decades went by, the setting has remained the same.
Screen goddesses from the mid 1920s right up until the late 1970s, including legends like Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Greta Garbo are pictured in a brilliant collection of black and white photographs unwinding on the beaches of LA.
During Hollywood's fabled golden age, the beaches of Los Angeles offered the perfect place to relax after long and arduous filming sessions in the nearby studios. They were then, as they are now, the places to see and to be seen.
The unique collection of photographs covers stars of the silent era like Estelle Taylor and Pola Negri right up until the late 1970s with actresses Bo Derek and Diane Keaton.
Screen goddess Marilyn Monroe takes a break from
filming in the 1950s to frolic on an LA beach. Her last completed film
was The Misfits (1961), co-starring Clark Gable. She died of an overdose
the following year
Ava Gardner hits the beach some time in the
1940s. Gardner's breakthrough role was in The Killers (1946). She went
on to become one of Hollywood's leading actresses and was considered one
of the most beautiful women of her day
Marjorie Helen, star of in 1959's Li'l Abner and
The Manchurian Candidate from 1962, models a white pique collar
swimsuit trimmed in lace and set off with a pearl, on an LA beach in
1956. The actress later changed her name to Leslie Parrish
Actress and presenter Christina Ferrare, hits
the beach in a bikini in 1967. After a brief speaking part in a Batman
TV episode, Ferrare starred alongside David Niven in 1968's The
Impossible Years and with Cliff Robertson in J. W. Coop from 1971.Today
she is known as the host of the Home and Family Show on the The Hallmark
Channel
Actress Lucille Ball, turns heads on an LA beach
in the strapless and sleeveless outfit she wore in the 1943 film Best
Foot Forward. Ball, perhaps best known as the star of sitcom I Love
Lucy, was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times
The stunning Lithuanian-American actress Ruth
Roman, best known for her memorable role in the Alfred Hitchcock 1951
thriller Strangers on a Train, enjoys a paddle in 1954
Merle Oberon, who starred in The Private Life of
Henry VIII (1933) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), keeps a close eye
on beach activities with binoculars from her home on Tranca Beach home
in 1948
June Clyde, who began her career at the age of
seven on the vaudeville stage before appearing in an incredible 60
films, shows off the fad of covering yourself in cellophane to prevent
sunburn in 1932
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