Cinema – Page 7 – We Heart Vintage blog: retro fashion, cinema and photography

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor photographed in the early 1950s for a publicity photo. Isn’t she beautiful?

The movie-going public adored the image of glitz and glamour presented to them by their favorite Hollywood stars in the

Louise Brooks with her sharply bobbed hair is one of the most iconic figures of 1920s cinema, but I realised

Would you recognize this woman as Rita Hayworth? Before she hit megastardom Hayworth underwent a huge transformation on instruction from her

Clara Bow was the quintessential ‘it’ girl and a flapper icon. She was one of the few silent movie stars who

A 1920s movie poster for the Clara Bow movie The Wild Party which was released in 1929. It was Clara Bow’s

A 16 year old Shirley Temple photographed in 1944 with William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister of Canada. I

For a few years in the early 20th Century, Evelyn Nesbit was considered the Most Beautiful Girl in the World.

If you’ve never seen an Esther Williams movie, and don’t understand the appeal of a swimming movie – just watch

Hitchcock’s preference for sophisticated icy blondes is well-known. He claimed that audiences would be suspicious of brunettes, but I think

A new trailer to Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated The Great Gatsby has finally been released and I have to say

The Boyfriend is one of my all-time favourite movies – if you haven’t seen it I thoroughly recommend it. Twiggy is

Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell both in white halterneck dresses. I think this photo was from 1953 when they put

Gregory Peck embracing Ann Todd in publicity still for Alfred Hitchcock’s film “The Paradine Case”, 1947. You can see why

The wonderful French actress and dancer Leslie Caron, (she was the one in An American in Paris with Gene Kelly)

The US Navy portrait of a very young Paul Newman taken during Word War 2, probably in 1944 or 1945.

Rita Hayworth dancing with Fred Astaire from the movie ”You Were Never Lovelier’ Source and copyright: This work is in

A fascinating video showing how the studio created Audrey Hepburn‘s iconic style for the movie Roman Holiday.