Clara Bow

William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) opening credits

ROUND 1, MATCH 12

Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg aboard a ship traveling to Europe, circa 1930.

"But how can you compare Harlow and Garbo, Swanson and Shearer, or Gable and Tracy with any luminary today? Maybe it's just an old timer's sentiment. But today's faces lack depth of feeling. Two world wars and many minor ones have almost changed the face of the globe itself. Why not our actors? As I watch on television many of the stars I once photographed, I look at them as one might old paintings. Some can't stand up to today's demanding audience; others will be as magnetic a hundred years from now. I am sure the Mona Lisa and the face of Greta Garbo will inspire and puzzle for all time." —Clarence Sinclair Bull, photographer

(From Hollywood in Kodachrome: 1940–1949 by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt, 2013)

Some interesting sandwiches from 1001 sandwiches

I also thought this was funny:

Lana Turner, 1942

“It’s interesting that Mother never thought of herself as beautiful. To her, the great beauties were brunettes. Dark was beauty, while women like herself and Betty Grable were bubbly, popular, and pretty, but not beautiful.  The epitome of beauty to Mother was Hedy Lamarr. She was so impressed by an entrance Hedy made at Ciro’s, glamour personified and wearing a single diamond on her forehead at her widow’s peak. Years later Mother was still impressed, telling me she had never seen anyone look as manificent in her life. Nevertheless, Mother didn’t do badly with what she had.”

- Cheryl Crane

1920s + dresses

Harold Lloyd in The Flirt (1917)

Permanent dark eye circles squad