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Mary Astor – Photos and Quotes

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  Mary Astor – Photos and Quotes POSTED  SEPTEMBER 18, 2016   BIZARRE.LOS.ANGELES “Hollywood is too deadly serious about the wrong things, and too flippant about the really important ones. We build our lives on the silly, tinsel elements of our work and we have practically no contact with the realities. In short, we’re fools, but there are so many of us crowded into one community that any attempt at change is swamped.”  –  Mary Astor  in 1930.   Riding a spotted horse in Griffith Park on her way to a breakfast club meeting in 1923.     “At Metro, you practically had to go to the front office if you wanted something as real as having your hair mussed. . . All automobiles were shiny, a picture never hung crooked, a door never squeaked, stocking seams were always straight and no actress ever had a shiny nose.”  —  Mary Astor   “The Woman from Hell” (1929)   “It’s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences ...

Classic and never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe

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  Classic and never-before-seen  photos of Marilyn Monroe Photographs by Milton H. Greene Story by Kyle Almond, CNN Milton H. Greene photographed some of the biggest movie stars in the world during the Golden Age of Hollywood: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich. But to this day, nothing sells like his iconic work with Marilyn Monroe. “She's lived on from generation to generation to generation,” said Milton’s son, Joshua, who has restored many of his late father’s photos for a new book, “The Essential Marilyn Monroe.” The book is made up of 284 images, “of which 176 have never seen the light of day,” Joshua Greene said. Many of these photos were long thought to be lost for good. The film had deteriorated over the years, Joshua Greene said, and his father “died believing all his work was ruined.” But with new technology, the photos were able to be salvaged — albeit with hours and hours of restoration work. This photo of Marilyn...

MARGARET BOURKE WHITE , FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER COVERED INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ,WAR PHOTOS ETC

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MARGARET BOURKE WHITE , FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER COVERED  INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ,WAR PHOTOS ETC BORN JUNE 14,1904 Margaret Bourke-White WW II, INDIAN INDEPENDECE  Margaret Bourke-White (/ˌbɜːrkˈhwaɪt/; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.[1] She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after she developed her first symptoms. Early life[edit] Margaret Bourke-White[2] (born Margaret White),[3] in the Bronx, New York[4] to Joseph Whites, a non-practicing Jew from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent.[5]  She grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey (in a neighborhood now part of Middlesex), and grad...