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Bette Davis on the phone, 1938. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Designer Edith Head won one of her eight Academy Awards for costume design when she designed Elizabeth Taylor’s incredible ball gown she wore in “A Place in the Sun”.

Rock Hudson, 1951

Henry Fonda

Vera Miles, 1956

Miles worked with Alfred Hitchcock on The Wrong Man (1956) co-starring with Henry Fonda. Hitch wanted her for Vertigo but she was pregnant, and so the part went to Kim Novak. Miles never had a big career, but it was steady and her performances were solid. She did work with Hitchcock again on Psycho (1960) when she played Janet Leigh’s sister.

I recall traveling to Paris with Warren for the premiere of Bonnie and Clyde, and I looked down from a balcony to see a sea of lovely French girls wearing berets and top and bottom eyelashes just like mine … what a compliment! Most of the costumes were kept by the production and some are in museums, but I have a white bias-cut blouse, the one I was killed in, actually. - Faye Dunaway

Grace Kelly by Richard Avedon, January 14 1955

Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum at the premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire, 1953.

Paul Newman, 1956

Marilyn photographed by Jock Carroll, 1953

Rock ‘handsome’ Hudson in ‘The Spiral Road’  More pics at http://therockhudsonproject.com 

Ali McGraw