We Had Faces Then

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

Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (Lowell Sherman, 1933)

Bette Davis, 1934

Tyrone Power and Norma Shearer at the premiere of Marie Antoinette, 1938

Birthday Remembrance: Toshiro Mifune (1 April 1920 - 24 December 1997), here seen in Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

Erich von Stroheim, 1920s

Theda Bara in a production still from Cleopatra, 1917 (now lost footage)
 

Agnes Moorehead, 1929

 

George O’Brien and Gwynn Williams in Noah’s Ark (Michael Curtiz, 1928)

Handsome mystery man
 

Paul Newman on the set of The Left Handed Gun, 1958
 

Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade (Charles Walters, 1948