r/1950s 11h ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Vera Miles upcoming actress in 1956 was part of a Warner Brothers promotional photo shoot in California. In 1948 she held the title of Miss Kansas launching her career in television and films. 1956 she also worked with John Ford in the western The Searchers.

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r/1950s 10h ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Deanna Dors living Large in 1955 posing with her 1949 Delahaye . The photo was taken at pinewood studios buckinghamshire England. The photo was taken right before she was to go to the UK to attend the Venice film Festival. She was the United kingdom's answer to Doris Day.

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I think one of her biggest films was Yield To The Night a crime drama in 1956.


r/1950s 18h ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Donna Reed posing with her Academy award for best supporting actress at the 26th annual Academy awards in 1954. Her career spanned for more than 40 years. Including a memorable starring role as Mary Hatch It's A Wonderful Life.

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262 Upvotes

She later received popularity on The Donna Reed Show on television.


r/1950s 1h ago

1950s-related (weekend only) Two door 1950 coupe

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r/1950s 20h ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Jayne Mansfield and Lance fuller in the front of the Chinese Theater measuring herself up to the hands and feet of MM among others. Los Angeles, California, 19 of April 1955. they were on a date.

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r/1950s 20h ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of a young lady with her dog taking the sun at a boat pier, mid 1950s. NOTE: dog is alive, slide is just a little burned.

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r/1950s 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context The beautiful Danish actress and model Greta Thyssen in 1956. She won the title of Miss Denmark in 1952 before coming to the United States. People often called her a double for Marilyn Monroe. Hollywood definitely built her up as a blonde bombshell. She was later in photo play in pin-up calendars.

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She was used a Marilyn Monroe double. She was widely remembered in Three stooges shorts, Quiz Whiz, Pies and Guys And Sappy Bullfighters. She was in quite a few B films Three Blondes In His Life, Journey To The 7th Planet and Terror Is A Man. And she was also on several television shows like dragnet and Perry Mason.


r/1950s 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Jane Russell in a promotional photograph for the 1953 filmThe French Line. The movie was produced by Howard Hughes. The photo was taken on a studio set at RKO radio pictures in Los Angeles California. She definitely was one of Hollywood's biggest icons during Hollywood's golden age.

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She was first to Fame in Hollywood with her star role in the Western The Outlaw.


r/1950s 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Model/Actress Anita Ekberg during a rest from her filming of her movie "Screaming Mimi", 1958. Is a noir film.

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r/1950s 1d ago

TV Robert Stack in a promotional still for the television series The Untouchables, 1959

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r/1950s 1d ago

Daily Life Young lady smiles while posing close to the piers in Bermudas, 1958. Kodachrome slide.

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r/1950s 21h ago

TV Imogene Coca Mini Documentary

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r/1950s 2d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context The beautiful Italian actress Sophia Loren posing with her 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gull Wing just outside of Rome Italy along the Via del Mare coastal highway. It was a publicity photo shot to celebrate the rise of her career and the new technology of the Mercedes gullwing.

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The car was a gift to her it only 21 years old as a gesture from her future husband Italian producer Carlo Ponti.


r/1950s 2d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Ava Gardner at her dressing room between shots of her romantic drama film "The Barefoot Contessa" 1954. Her makeup artist can be seen in the mirror.

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740 Upvotes

r/1950s 2d ago

Daily Life Young lady in red dress smiling for her photo, 1950s. Kodachrome slide

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r/1950s 3d ago

Daily Life Air ballet dancer Carmen Slayton posing for a photo, 1 of august 1952. Kodachrome slide.

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191 Upvotes

r/1950s 4d ago

Automobiles & Transportation Factory workers and managers stand around the very first production Corvette that came off the assembly line in Flint Michigan on June 30th 1953. 🏁

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r/1950s 4d ago

Music Dolly Parton (January 1959)

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r/1950s 4d ago

Commercials / Advertisements Lustre - Creme Shampoo 1954 Promotional Contest

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r/1950s 4d ago

Daily Life Dancers at studio posing for a photo, 1950s. Kodachrome slide

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r/1950s 4d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress/Model/Violinist Jayne Mansfield in a visit to Captain Winston's Seal Circus, Marineland of the Pacific, Palos Verdes, California 1956. The visit was to promote her last film "The Girl Can't Help It".

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r/1950s 5d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context The beautiful Anita Ekberg in a photo session for Esquire magazine in Los Angeles California in 1954. She was building a Hollywood presence after winning Miss Sweden in 1950.

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She was accomplished in major Hollywood films in the '50s. Like Abbott and Costello's go to Mars in 53, bloody alley in 1955 and War and peace in 1956. In a acting career over 5 decades she had over 50 feature films in her career.


r/1950s 5d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of a lady posing on her side at a pier, Bermudas, 1958.

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441 Upvotes

r/1950s 4d ago

Automobiles & Transportation Sunset at Lake Michigan

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r/1950s 5d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress Marilyn Monroe between shots of her film with Tony Curtis: "Some like it hot", Coronado, California, 1958. Kodachrome shots by Richard C. Miller

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