Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon.

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Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, "Back to the Beach" (1987)

Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. photo by thefoxling on Flickr

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Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936 

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Vintage Film

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is an American film of Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year.

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Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow in Double Whoopee a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy.

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Theresa Harris

Theresa Harris  (December 31, 1906 – October 8, 1985) was an American television and film actress.

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Metropolis

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea Von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Text by Wikipedia

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Paris Blues

Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier in Paris Blues, 1961. 

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Eddie Cantor

Kid Millions (1934) is an American film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

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William Powell

William Powell blows suave smoke rings in “The Thin Man”  (1934)

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Nina Mae McKinney

Nina Mae McKinney (June 13, 1912 – May 3, 1967)  was an American actress who worked internationally in theatre, film and television after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. 

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford, 1930

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The Lady Eve

Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941)

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Buster Keaton

The Navigator, Buster Keaton, 1924

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Rita Rio

Rita Rio and Her Orchestra 1939

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June Collyer

June Collyer and her awesome windmill hat. (June Collyer was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s)

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Bette Davis

Satan Met a Lady 1936,  Bette Davis.

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