We Had Faces Then

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

James Dean, 1955, photo by Phil Stern

Fashions of 1934 is a 1934 Pre-Code musical directed by William Dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley

Headlights, 1945, photo by Bill Brandt

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 1951

 

Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in a publicity shot for Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946)

 

A favorite photo of Bette Davis

A female Lockheed employee works on a P-38 Lighting in Burbank, CA, 1944.
 

Birthday Remembrance: Bette Davis (5 April 1908 - 6 October 1989), here seen on the set of Now, Voyager

 

Peter Lorre in M (Fritz Lang, 1931)

Students at Syracuse University, 1949, photo by Lisa Larsen

Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
 

Anna May Wong, 1933, photo by Paul Tanqueray