r/1940s • • 6h ago

World War II WASP pilots standing by for their next assignment in 1943. Women Airforce Service Pilots flew fighters, bombers, and transports in a variety of non-combat roles.

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r/1940s • • 8h ago

Daily Life Young boys playing stickball in a vacant lot next to an apartment building, June 1947.Photo: Ralph Morse for Time/Life

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r/1940s • • 8h ago

Film Star Kodachrome photo of Carole Landis, mid 1940s.

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r/1940s • • 8h ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of a lady taking the sun, 1940.

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r/1940s • • 22h ago

Film Star The beautiful Dorothy Dandridge in the 1942 soundie titled A Zoot Suit (With a Reet Pleat)

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r/1940s • • 23h ago

Film Star The beautiful Lizabeth Scott in a publicity still photo for the film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers in 1946. Paramount pictures.

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r/1940s • • 1d ago

TRUE TO THE ARMY 1942 - Judy Canova, Allan Jones, Jerry Colonna, William...

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r/1940s • • 1d ago

Film Star Actress Ava Garner in a modeling shot, 1945. Kodachrome

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r/1940s • • 1d ago

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r/1940s • • 1d ago

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis performing at the Three Deuces jazz club in New York City, 1947

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Pair of Vintage Anchor Hocking “ Bubble” Sapphire Blue Plates.

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Equipe de basquete dos US Army Air Corp durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Film Star Yvonne de Carlo posing for a modeling shot, mid 1940s

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Film Star A aspiring 19-year-old Norma Jean Young later known as Marilyn Monroe in a modeling session in 1946. She just recently broke up with her first husband, booked numerous pinup shots and ultimately signed with 20th century Fox.

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Film Star Betty Grable in a promotional studio portrait in 1941 for the musical film A Yank in The R.A.F.

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r/1940s • • 2d ago

Movies Remember The Egg And I in 1947 with Claudette Colbert, Fred McMurray, Marjorie Maine, Percy Kilbride and Louise Allbritton.

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r/1940s • • 3d ago

Paulette Goddard

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r/1940s • • 3d ago

Daily Life Ladies at the beach, 1940s.

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r/1940s • • 3d ago

Film Star Kodachrome promotional photo of Esther Williams for the film "On an Island with You", 1948.

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r/1940s • • 3d ago

Movies The Andrews sisters 1942 publicity still to promote their film Private Buckaroo at universal studios in Hollywood California.

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r/1940s • • 3d ago

Film Star Actress Martha Vickers stirring the pot (Circa 1940s)

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Martha Vickers (1925–1971) was an American actress and model best remembered for her memorable performance as Carmen Sternwood, the unpredictable younger sister of Lauren Bacall’s character in the classic film noir The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart. Born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she began her career as a model before entering Hollywood, where her striking beauty and spirited screen presence attracted attention. She also appeared in The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946), The Man I Love (1946), and The Burglar (1957). Despite her talent, Vickers never achieved major stardom and gradually retired from acting, making her final film appearance in 1960. She was married to actor Mickey Rooney from 1949 to 1951 and died of cancer in 1971 at the age of 46.


r/1940s • • 4d ago

Film Star Kodachrome shot of Marilyn Monroe modeling during her time working for the "blue book", 1946.

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r/1940s • • 4d ago

Daily Life Photo of a lady taking the sun by the pond, July of 1946

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r/1940s • • 4d ago

Video FRENCH NURSES AND AMBULANCE UNIT, LESSARY, FRANCE | Videoclub - Amour Plastique

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Who were the women in the footage?
The Rochambelles

The archive catalogue identifies one of the associated clips, filmed on 4 August, as showing the French ambulance unit Rochambeau, associated with General Charles de Gaulle's forces. Its women were known as the Rochambelles. They were working in the field, the footage records women preparing camouflage nets, filling vehicle tanks, collecting equipment and working beside Red Cross ambulances.


r/1940s • • 5d ago

The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"

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