Chevy show-off - one car, one young man, three vintage photographs, circa 1960s

 

JC on the cover - Joan Crawford and the movie magazine (plus one)

 

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And Miss Crawford looking very chic on the March 12, 1940 cover of Look. The aquamarine and diamond jewels were her own.

Dark boys - three tenebrous portraits

 

Portrait de jeune homme à col ouvert, portrait of Eugène Delacroix, by Théodore Géricault, circa 1816-17. *

Ragazzo con gli orecchini, by Juana Romani, circa 1890.

Reynold Arnould, by Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1933. The young artist Arnould was fourteen at the time of this portrait.

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* Long attributed to Géricault, recent scholarship tends to reattribute it to Delacroix as a youthful self-portrait.

 

Gertie, tonight - Gertrude Lawrence in Hartnell for Coward by Horst, Vogue, 15 November 1936

 

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When the image is enlarged, the rather crude retouching of Miss Lawrence's slightly less than aristocratic nose is quite obvious.

The two relevant pages from Vogue. (In the above, it's clear that, for publication, the nose in question has been re-retouched.)

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Two images of the We Were Dancing gown "in action." This photograph credited to Vandamm.

Photograph - presumably for Shadow Play - by Sasha (Alexander Stewart).