We Had Faces Then

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

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ZaSu Pitts, 1920s

Ann Miller in her Easter Bonnet, 1948

 

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
 

Louis Jourdan, 1948

 

Lillian Gish, 1921

 

Les Halles, Paris, 1930, a photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt
 

Greta Garbo in Camille (George Cukor, 1936)
 

Model wearing a Christian Dior design, Paris, 1950, photo by Willy Maywald
 

Laurence Harvey and Mia Farrow, London, 1967, during the filming of A Dandy in Aspic

Coffee Dan’s, Beverly Hills, 1948, photo by Julius Shulman

 

Marlon Brando, 1949