Everyone's a critic 😂

Cheeky in lace 😘

Bette Davis by Elmer Fryer, 1936.

The one and only Janis Joplin

Sounds about right

Studio portrait of actress and dancer Ginger Rogers as "Fay" for the film Gold Diggers of 1933.

Miss Bettie Page

That was a fun sleep over

summertime75.wordpress.com/2021/07/19/s... If you don't like Mondays, why not stay at home, with a friend?

www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Fact mixed with fiction is often a difficult balance to achieve, I read one about Lily Elsie and was upset with the poor attempt. Laini Giles achieves that balance, it was like a conversation with a friend, one that you don't want to end because you know her story

playpictorial.blogspot.com/2026/07/blog... One of the most beautiful actresses of her era, perhaps if she hadn't meet Jack Pickford she might have lived longer

3-2-1, Dusty Bin, the booby prize for Clacton 😂

summertime75.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/h... Heikki Savolainen, Maikki Länsiön in The Taming of the Shrew, 1963

Sadie the sun worshipper with friends

Now there’s a thought

That sounds like an interesting offer

Reta Walter on a vintage postcard

Can't wait until it comes out on Kindle

An illustration by Namio Harukawa

A promotional photo of Italian movie star Barbara Steele receiving a topless bondage whipping is said to be from the 1966 film L’armata Brancaleone (For Love And Gold, or The Incredible Army Of Brancaleone). She seems to be enjoying herself; that’s a huge smile she’s trying to hide behind her arm.

Bunny Yeager's photo of (l.-r.) Bettie Page, herself, and Kathleen Stanley (1954)

Biederer c1925

You define beauty yourself. Society doesn’t define your beauty. — Lady Gaga

A young woman poses in a sheer evening gown on a French postcard from the early 1900s. Photographed by Jean Agélou.

Shared with Public Portion of crown at Grooms Orphanage Fete - 27-7-1920 (The Crippleage)

summertime75.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/d... Taken from We Never Danced ❤ Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1987)

summertime75.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/s... words fail to describe the sadness of a father's loss

summertime75.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/t... It's a lovely story about loss and what might have been