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60 Gorgeous Photos That Show the Fashion & Style Sense of Carole Lombard in the 1930s

Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts. She was dropped by Fox just before her 18th birthday before a shattered windshield from a car accident left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in fifteen short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage (1929) and The Racketeer (1929). After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures.

Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced amicably after two years. A turning point in Lombard’s career came when she starred in Howard Hawks’s pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934). The actress found her niche in this genre, and continued to appear in films such as Hands Across the Table (1935) (forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray), My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married “The King of Hollywood”, Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles at the end of the decade. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), her final film role.

Lombard’s career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 aboard TWA Flight 3, which crashed on Mount Potosi, Nevada, while returning from a war bond tour. Today, she is remembered as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and as an icon of American cinema. (Wikipedia)

Not only a beautiful actress, Lompard was also a fashion icon of her time. These stunning photos show fashion styles of Carole Lombard in the 1930s.

62 Amazing Vintage Photos of Los Angeles in 1977-1978

Los Angeles, commonly referred to by the initialism L.A., is the largest city in California. With a 2020 population of 3,898,747, it is the second-largest city in the United States. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry and sprawling metropolitan area.

Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. The city, which covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2), is the seat of Los Angeles County.

Home to the Chumash and Tongva, the area that became Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, under Spanish governor Felipe de Neve, on the village of Yaanga. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and thus became part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California.

Los Angeles has a diverse and robust economy, and hosts businesses in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. It also has the busiest container port in the Americas. In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0 trillion, making it the city with the third-largest GDP in the world, after Tokyo and New York City. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics. (Wikipedia)

Man out of the service station with a soda in hand. Los Angeles.

35 Amazing Portraits of Ireland and The Irish At The Turn of The 19th Century

Ireland in the late 19th Century was all boulders, rocks, pigs, plus fours, mud and stoicism. Well, it is if these photographs of the period are our guide. For people of great wit, anecdote and gab, the subjects look remarkably glum. You can detect a hint of merriment in the eyes of the cricket team, one or two of the lifeboat men are chipper and a member of the Waterford bicycle club is breaking ranks with an insouciant smirk. But either the photographer waited for his sitters to grow bored and sullen before capturing the moment for whatever agenda was being pushed – a clear association of people and the rugged milieu; an Irishman’s mien as grey as the skies and rocks – or else he got them all on a bad day.

In many of these images, it’s the little things that stand out and make them memorable. Two ancients underscored with the caption ‘Mother and Son” is sardony manifest; the age of the “girls of the Ursuline Convent” and how one of them (third from left) appears to leave and arrive all at once; the haughty, top hatted gent stood overlook a man digging a moat in Ballymena; the medical student presenting the skeleton as a threat; three women who have hit rock bottom, literally, selling good fortune from the ‘wishing chair’; and the blurb of movement as men continue to work.

**Four boys at the Rocking Stone at Islandmagee, County Antrim. 1870**

**Girls of the Ursuline Convent in Waterford pose in their gymnasium. 1908**

**The McCoy family of Waterford, Ireland, 1901**

**A family cuts turf near Ballymena, 1885**

**A young member of the Irish Guards at Waterford Barracks with the regiment’s mascot, an Irish Wolfhound. 1917**

**Workers at a mine in Knockmahon, County Waterford. 1906**

**Medical student John Joseph Clarke. 1900**

**J. Morgan’s butcher shop on Broad Street, Waterford. 1916**

**Men on horseback in front of Kate Kearney’s Cottage in Kerry. 1900**

**A weigh station in Clifden, County Galway, 1908**

**Three generations of a family pose beside their home at Alexander Street, Waterford. 1924**

**People in costume at the Theatre Royal in Waterford. 1914**

**Women sell tourist trinkets and books on Fionn Mac Cumhaill’s Wishing Chair at the Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim. 1900**

**The Glencar Tea House in County Leitrim. 1900**

**A Royal Welsh Fusilier with the Regimental Goat, and his strap-on crest. 1887**

**Inside the Bonmahon Mines. Ireland, 1906**

**Sir Hercules Robert Langrishe, 5th Baronet Langrishe and his dog. 1913**

**A wool operation in Leenane, County Galway. 1910**

**Fisher folk of Ardglass, County Down. 1910**

**Glencar Tea House, County Leitrim. 1890**

**Sailors on the Sarah McDonald at Waterford. 1913**

**The Riley family, survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, in Cobh, County Cork. 1915**

**The Cloghvorra Stone, near Kenmare. 1890**

**Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station, Malin Head, County Donegal.**

Via: National Library of Ireland

Fatal 1912 Scott’s Expedition To The South Pole Documented By Henry Robertson Bowers

What does disappointment look like? What is the expression on a man’s face, expecting death in the icy wilderness?

“The worst has happened”, Robert F. Scott wrote in his diary on January 17, 1912. The same day, Scott and four of his men had reached the South Pole after two and a half month’s march through the ice fields. From a distance, they had spotted what looked like a cairn. Scott initially thought they had been mistaken, but half an hour later, they discovered a huge flag that fluttered in the wind.

Upon reaching the Pole, they found traces from lots of dogs, skis, and sleds. “The Norwegians have forestalled us and are first at the Pole. It is a terrible disappointment”, Scott writes on.

Two of the members of the expedition died during the march back. The other three – among them Scott himself – camped for the last time on March 19. The remains of which were found eight months later.

Herbert Ponting (1870 – 1935) was a photographer at Terra the Nova expedition, but because of his age (he was no less than 42 years old!), he wasn’t expected to be joining the arduous expedition to the Pole. Henry Robertson Bowers was the photographer behind the images of the disappointed men at the South Pole. He sits on the left of the group photo. Two months later, he was dead, along with his leader Scott.

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives.

Traffic Control in Krakow, Poland During the German Occupation, 1941

Under the terms of two decrees by Hitler (8 October and 12 October 1939), large areas of western Poland were annexed to Germany. These included all the territories which Germany had lost under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, such as the Polish Corridor, West Prussia and Upper Silesia, but also a large area of indisputably Polish territory east of these territories, including the city of Lodz.

Some Polish institutions, including the police, were preserved in the General Government. Political activity was prohibited and only basic Polish education was allowed.

53 Actors Who Look Incredibly Similar to the Historical Figures They Play

**Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln**

**Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors**

**Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin**

**Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi**

**Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall**

**Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs In Jobs**

**Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X**

**Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus**

**Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side**

**Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena**

**Adrien Brody As Salvador Dali In Midnight In Paris**

**Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady**

**Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy**

**Hellen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen**

**Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock**

**Eddie Redmayne And Felicity Jones as Jane And Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything**

**Charlize Theron As Aileen Wuornos In Monster**

**Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There**

**James Franco As James Dean In James Dean**

**Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers**

**Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia**

**Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel**

**Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote**

**Edie Sedgwick & Andy Warhol (sienna Miller / Guy Pearce)**

**Benicio Del Toro As Ernesto “che” Guevara**

**Hannah Taylor-gordon As Anne Frank In Anne Frank: The Whole Story**

**Michael Douglas as Liberace In Behind The Candelabra**

Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn

**Jared Leto As Mark David Chapman In Chapter 27.**

**John Hurt As Joseph Merrick In The Elephant Man**

**Glenn Miller And James Steward In The Glenn Miller Story**

**Reese Witherspoon and Joacquin Phoenix as June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash**

**Sherilyn Fenn As Elizabeth Taylor In Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story**

**Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman**

**Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon**

**Colin Firth as King George VI in The King’s Speech**

**Benedict Cumberbatch As Stephen Hawking In “Hawking”**

**Jessica Schwarz As Romy Schneider In Romy**

**Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network**

**Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get On Up**

The “Queen of Funk”: 35 Amazing Photos Showing Chaka Khan During the 1970s

Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Known as the “Queen of Funk”, Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with “I Feel for You” in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammy Awards and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.

With Rufus, she achieved four gold singles, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with I Feel for You. She has collaborated with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, among others. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1’s original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. She has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan; the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. (Wikipedia)

Take a look at these cool pics to see the unique styles of young Chaka Khan in the 1970s.

57 Fabulous Photos of Iconic Actresses of the 1970s

**Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith**

**Suzanne Somers(R) and Joyce DeWitt (L)**

37 Vintage Photos of Alaska Natives From the Late 19th to the Early 20th Centuries

Alaska Natives or Alaskan Natives are indigenous peoples of Alaska, United States and include: Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures. They are often defined by their language groups. Many Alaska Natives are enrolled in federally recognized Alaska Native tribal entities, who in turn belong to 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations, who administer land and financial claims.

Ancestors of Alaska Natives migrated into the area thousands of years ago, in at least two different waves. Some are descendants of the third wave of migration, in which people settled across the northern part of North America. They never migrated to southern areas. For this reason, genetic studies show they are not closely related to native peoples in South America. Alaskan Natives came from Asia. Anthropologists have stated that their journey from Asia to Alaska was made possible through the Bering land bridge or by traveling through the sea.Throughout the Arctic and the circumpolar north, the ancestors of Alaska Natives established varying indigenous, complex cultures that have succeeded each other over time. They developed sophisticated ways to deal with the challenging climate and environment, and cultures deeply rooted in the place. Historic groups have been defined by their languages, which belong to several major language families. Today, Alaska Natives constitute more than 15% of the population of Alaska. (Wikipedia)

40 Vintage Photos of Actor Alain Delon From the 1960s

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is known as one of Europe’s most prominent actors and screen sex symbols from the 1960s and 1970s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Purple Noon (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), L’Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Le Samouraï (1967), La Piscine (1969), Le Cercle Rouge (1970), Un flic (1972), and Monsieur Klein (1976). Over the course of his career Delon worked with many well-known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Louis Malle. As a singer, Delon recorded the popular duet “Paroles, paroles” (1973) with Dalida. He acquired Swiss citizenship in 1999.

In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Notre histoire (1984). In 1991, he received France’s Legion of Honour. At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Honorary Golden Bear. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, he received the Honorary Palme d’Or.

These glamorous photos that captured young Alain Delon in the late 1950s and 1960s.