“I’m poison, Swede, to myself and everybody around me. I’d be afraid to go with anyone I love for the harm I’d do them.”

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in The Killers (1946), dir. Robert Siodmak

gatabella:

Lauren Bacall reaching for Smirnoff vodka bottle at an after-party following the world premiere of the film A Star Is Born, 1954

summers-in-hollywood:

Marlene Dietrich, 1931. Photo by Edward Steichen

thecinamonroe:

Marilyn Monroe at a birthday party at Ciro’s in Los Angeles, 1953.

gatabella:

Lauren Bacall (with her mother) photographed by Nina Leen at the Gotham Hotel , New York, 1945

lelaid:

Diana Ross in Yves Saint Laurent by Terry O’Neill, London, 1972