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Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall: 40 Fabulous Photos of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Story

She was a Jewish girl from the Bronx, and he was raised Episcopal on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Together they made some of the greatest film noir movies the world had ever seen, and their May-December romance will go down in history as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous marriages.

Lauren Bacall, 19, was a former model starring in her first leading film role when she met Humphrey Bogart, 45, on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944. Bogart was married to his third wife, actress Mayo Methot, at the time. Despite their 25-year age gap, sparks flew between the two stars, and their relationship progressed quickly. The movie debuted on Jan. 20, 1945, and Bogart was divorced soon after. He and Bacall tied the knot on May 21, 1945 at a ceremony on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield’s farm in Lucas, Ohio. They would go on to have two children together, staying married until Bogart’s death in 1957.

Bacall wasn’t the least bit interested in her future husband the first time she saw him on screen in Casablanca. The friend she saw the movie with found him sexy. “I thought she was crazy,” Bacall toldVanity Fair in 2011.

When they met in person a few years later, her first impression of him was of a cordial, polite, and friendly man. He told jokes to make her feel more comfortable in front of the camera, and soon their working relationship became a flirtatious friendship. In her memoir Be Myself, Bacall recounted how, three weeks into filming, Bogart stopped by her trailer to say goodnight. She was brushing her hair, and he was standing behind her:

Suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive—he was a bit shy—no lunging wolf tactics. He took a worn package of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my phone number on the back. I did. I don’t know why I did, except it was kind of part of our game. Bogie was meticulous about not being too personal, was known for never fooling around with women at work or anywhere else. He was not that kind of man, and also he was married to a woman who was a notorious drinker and fighter. A tough lady who would hit you with an ashtray, lamp, anything, as soon as not.

When director Howard Hawks got wind of the affair, he tried to put a stop to it by telling Bacall it was just a fling, that Bogart would dump her once filming ended. He even threatened to ruin her career, bluffing that he would send her to the “lowest” studios in Hollywood. “[Hawks] used to say to Bogie, ‘You don’t have to get serious about this girl. Take her downtown to a hotel and get a room with her—that’s enough.’ That was not Bogie’s scene at all,” Bacall revealed decades later.

Her mother disliked her new boyfriend, too. When she came to visit Bacall, she mused out loud about what her daughter was thinking by pursuing a married man 25 years her senior who had a drinking problem, according to Biography.com.

Of course, no one successfully deterred the union. Bogart became a father for the first time at age 46 when the couple welcomed their firstborn, a son they name Stevie—presumably after Bogart’s character Steve in To Have and Have Not—in January 1946.

Their daughter, Leslie, was born on August 23, 1952. Following the success of their first film together, credited in large part to their onscreen chemistry, the pair was cast in the film noir movie The Big Sleep almost immediately after. They also starred in Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948) together.

Though their relationship was marred by mutual infidelity—his with his longtime hairdresser Verita Peterson, and hers with Frank Sinatra—their mutual deep care for each other was evident until the end.

“I never believed that I could love anyone again, for so many things have happened in my life to me that I was afraid to love,” Bogart wrote in a love letter to Bacall at the beginning of their relationship. “Now I’m afraid that you’ll become impatient and that I’ll lose you—but even if that happened, I wouldn’t stop loving you.”

Bogart died of esophageal cancer in 1957. Bacall got engaged to Sinatra shortly after, but the relationship ended after she talked publicly about their affair against his wishes. She married actor Jason Robards in 1961, though it seems she never really got over Bogie. Even her second spouse referred to her as “The Widow Bogart.”

“No one has ever written a romance better than we lived,” she wrote in her memoir. After her death on Aug. 12, 2014, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, the same cemetery as Bogart.
(Via countryliving.com)

45 Amazing Vintage Photos of Bicycle Messenger Boys Across America from the Early 20th Century

The little bicycle messengers of yesterday who were part of two million child laborers working in American industry in the early 20th century.

Photojournalist Lewis Hine played an integral role in the creation of child labor laws in America. Hine took a post with the National Child Labor Committee in 1908 and spent the next ten years documenting child laborers and their working conditions around America. Though real child labor reform didn’t come about until 1938, Hine’s photos nonetheless helped show America the destitute, exploitative conditions in which young children were forced to work.

As it turns out, Hines came across a lot of young bike messengers in the course of his work. As a by-product of his work for the NCLC, Hine created an amazing record of early American bike messengers and some of them, like the one of the aforementioned bad ass, are really great. Captions written by Lewis Hine. Here are some of his fantastic photographs:

Luther Wharton, drug store delivery boy, twelve years old. Works from 4:00 P.M. to midnight in Sommers Drug Store. I saw him working at midnight. He goes to school in the daytime, then works from four to twelve. Sundays half a day. Gets $5.00 a week. “I take medicines to the Red Light places several times a day. Yes I know some of the people there.” This is a pretty heavy burden, both physical and moral, to place on this adolescent boy. Location: San Antonio, Texas.

Howard Williams, thirteen year old delivery boy for Shreveport, La. Drug Company. He works from 9:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M.; has been here three months. Goes to the Red Light every day and night. Says that the company could not keep other messenger boys; they work them so hard. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.

**Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.**

**Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.**

The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5 is only ten years old, and is working as extra boy. He said he was going to be laid off as the manager told him he was too young, but an older messenger told me the reason was that the other messengers were having him put off because he cuts into their earnings. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Va. That night he refused to show me through the Red Light District, said the manager did not permit them to go on such errands. A Western Union boy (tallest boy in photo 2182) eagerly took me around and revealed an appalling intimate acquaintance with the district and the inmates. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with Western Union for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. “I learned a lot about the ‘Reservation’ while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now.” Location: Houston, Texas.

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. Location: Dallas, Texas.

**A typical messenger boy in New Orleans. The telegraph companies are trying to obey the law, and few violations occur. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana.**

**Willie Roberts, 11 year old delivery boy in Reiss Department Store. Location: Mobile, Alabama.**

**A. D. T. Messenger Boy, Indianapolis, 10 P.M. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.**

**A. D. T. Messengers, Indianapolis. Aug., 1908. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.**

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

**Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. Location: Waco, Texas.**

**Package boy. Location: Montgomery, Alabama.**

**Messenger boys. Work until 11 P.M. Location: New Haven, Connecticut.**

**George Christopher, Postal Tel. #7, 14 years old. Been at it over 3 years. Does not work nights. Location: Nashville, Tennessee**

**Selling during school hours, 10:30 A.M. Location: Syracuse, New York (State)**

**Postal Telegraph messenger. Birmingham, Alabama**.

**Wilbur Bold, Western Union Messenger No. 14, twelve years old, works until 11 P.M. usually, but all night when they are busy. Location: Tampa, Florida.**

**Leo Day, Postal Telegraph Messenger, 12 years old, and a very knowing lad. Tampa, Florida.**

Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service. They said they never knew when they were going to get home at night. Usually work one or more nights a week, and have worked until after midnight. They said last Christmas their office had a 9 yr. old boy running errands for them, and that he made a great deal of money from tips. They make about $7 a week and more, sometimes. Said “The office is not allowed to send us into the red light district but we go when a call sends us. Not very often.” Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Va. Lives, 201 Freeman Street. Been working here one month. He, and several other very young boys, work until 10:30 P.M. Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

A typical group of Postal Messengers in Norfolk, Va. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only. The Postal boys are not nearly so young, in Norfolk and also in other Virginia cities, as are the Western Union boys. Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

**Group of Western Union Messengers in Norfolk, Va. See also photo 2232, 2258, and report on Va. messengers. Location: Norfolk, Virginia.**

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little “tough.” Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else. Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

**Young messenger in New Bedford, Massachusetts.**

Twelve year old messenger #7. Edison Green. Works on day shift now. “I got acquainted with the Red Light people over in Oklahoma City where I was messenger for three years, but I carry messages out to them here.” Location: Houston, Texas.

**Eleven year old Western Union messenger #51. J.T. Marshall. Been day boy here for five months. Goes to Red Light district some and knows some of the girls. Location: Houston, Texas.**

Jeff Miller. A young delivery boy for Magnolia Pharmacy. This is especially bad for him as he has recently returned from the Seabrook Reform School where he had spent a year. He would not tell me why he was sent there. Location: Houston, Texas.

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. “Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don’t care and the cops don’t stop me.” Location: Houston, Texas.

Isaac Boyett, “I’m de whole show.” The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the Red Light District where he was delivering messages as he does several times a day. Said he knows the houses and some of the inmates. Has been doing this for one year, working until 9:30 P.M. on Saturdays. Not so late on other nights. Makes from six to ten dollars a week. Location: Waco, Texas.

**A typical Birmingham messenger. Birmingham, Alabama.**

Extremes meet. One of the youngest and one of the older messenger boys in Mobile. The small boy is Emmet Brewster, Postal messenger #3. 11 years old; been working there 7 months. Makes $10 to $15 a month. Finished the third grade in school. I saw him carrying messages late at night. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

**A 12 year old delivery boy for a Montgomery laundry. Makes $1.50 a week. Montgomery, Alabama.**

**Boy learning printer’s trade. Montgomery, Alabama.**

**A 10 year old delivery boy for a small department store in Opelika, Alabama.**

**10 year old delivery boy for an Opelika drug store. Gets $3 a week. Opelika, Alabama.**

**An 11 year old delivery boy for an Opelika meat market. Opelika, Alabama.**

**“Red Line” messenger service. Sacramento, California**

Manley Creasson, 914 W. 6 St. Messenger #6, Mackay Telegraph Co. Says he is 14; school records say 13. Says he has steady job – “Been a messenger for years. Get $15 for 2 weeks’ pay.” Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

**Jack Ryan, 6-year-old newsie, who lives at 126 1/2 W. Reno St. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.**

**Ben Collins, 515 N. Walnut St. Been working steady for Mackay Telegraph Co. for 1 month. 13 years old. Says he makes $5 a week. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.**

(Images: Library of Congress)

29 Vintage Black and White Photos of Berlin in Ruins in 1945

40 Stunning Portrait Photos of Beautiful Young Women From the Turn of the 20th Century

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, according to the well-known saying. Yet it is only in the present day that our eyes need to make some effort to find beauty in so many faces. When it comes to women of the past, their appearance was unquestionably pure. One can be sure — this beauty is as real as it gets.

With Edwardian era, that has lasted from 1900 to 1912 came many life improvements that we still use today, such as electricity, cars, and vacuum cleaners, but it has also given us a fair share of bizarre facts, most of them concerning women.

According to Bored Panda, beautiful women of the Edwardian Era used Belladonna, a highly poisonous and even lethal plant, drops to make their pupils dilate, making the women look aroused. They have also smeared their faces with lead cream to make them look pale. And a faint smell of dame’s sweat was deemed very desirable by young gentlemen and even got a name as ‘bouquet de corsage’ (literally ‘smells of the bodice’).

In spite of these absurd beauty trends, the era gave us some of the most beautiful women and emancipated ladies, here we gathered a gallery of 40 vintage portraits of beautiful women from between the 1900s to 1910s:

54 Poignant Photos of the Battle Of The Bulge, 1944-1945

The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. The furthest west the offensive reached was the village of Foy-Nôtre-Dame, south east of Dinant, being stopped by the British 21st Army Group on 24 December 1944. The German offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers’ favor. Once that was accomplished, the German dictator Adolf Hitler believed he could fully concentrate on the Soviets on the Eastern Front.

The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany’s armored forces, and they were largely unable to replace them. German personnel and, later, Luftwaffe aircraft (in the concluding stages of the engagement) also sustained heavy losses.

The Germans officially referred to the offensive as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (“Operation Watch on the Rhine”), while the Allies designated it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase “Battle of the Bulge” was coined by contemporary press to describe the bulge in German front lines on wartime news maps, and it became the most widely used name for the battle. The offensive was planned by the German forces with utmost secrecy, with minimal radio traffic and movements of troops and equipment under cover of darkness. Intercepted German communications indicating a substantial German offensive preparation were not acted upon by the Allies.

The Germans achieved total surprise on the morning of 16 December 1944, due to a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance. The Germans attacked a weakly defended section of the Allied line, taking advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions that grounded the Allies’ overwhelmingly superior air forces. Fierce resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive, around Elsenborn Ridge, and in the south, around Bastogne, blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west that they counted on for success. Columns of armor and infantry that were supposed to advance along parallel routes found themselves on the same roads. This, and terrain that favored the defenders, threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to reinforce the thinly placed troops. Improved weather conditions permitted air attacks on German forces and supply lines, which sealed the failure of the offensive. In the wake of the defeat, many experienced German units were left severely depleted of men and equipment, as survivors retreated to the defenses of the Siegfried Line.

The Germans’ initial attack involved 410,000 men; just over 1,400 tanks, tank destroyers, and assault guns; 2,600 artillery pieces; 1,600 anti-tank guns; and over 1,000 combat aircraft, as well as large numbers of other AFVs. These were reinforced a couple of weeks later, bringing the offensive’s total strength to around 450,000 troops, and 1,500 tanks and assault guns. Between 63,222 and 98,000 of their men were killed, missing, wounded in action, or captured. For the Americans, out of a peak of 610,000 troops, 89,000 became casualties out of which some 19,000 were killed. The “Bulge” was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the second bloodiest battle in American history.

**A heavily-armed German soldier marches into Belgium. Dec. 18, 1944.**

American prisoners-of-war from the all-Black 333rd Battalion, photographed by their Nazi captors.
Many of the men captured on this day were stripped of their weapons, walked out into a field, and massacred.
Near Malmedy, Belgium. December, 1944.

Nazi soldiers in the Kampfgruppe Hansen fight against American soldiers.
Liege, Belgium. Dec. 18, 1944.

**A war correspondent looks down at the dead body of a young Belgian boy, murdered by Nazi soldiers. Stavelot, Belgium. December, 1945.**

**The bodies of Belgian civilians litter the streets. Belgium. Dec. 15, 1944.**

**The blasted ruins of Bastogne after a raid by German bombers. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 26, 1944.**

**A Nazi tank abandoned on the streets of Stavelot after crashing into the wall of a family’s home. Stavelot, Belgium. Dec. 18, 1944.**

**American soldiers march toward Wiltz, determined to fight back and reclaim the territory they lost. Wiltz, Belgium. Circa December, 1944 – January, 1945.**

**An American ambulance waits outside of a bombed-out building in Bastogne after an air raid. The soldiers are inside the building, searching for survivors. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 26, 1944.**

**American troops help Belgian refugees flee Bastogne, a city under siege by the Nazi army.Bastogne, Belgium. December, 1944.**

**A German tank disguised to look like an American vehicle. Belgium. December, 1944.**

**Nazi soldiers fight their way through a forest. Luxembourg. Dec. 22, 1944.**

**American soldiers, stripped of their equipment and one robbed of his boots, lie dead at the crossroads. Honsfeld, Belgium. Dec. 17, 1944.**

**A row of captured American soldiers march forward. Belgium. December, 1944.**

The scene of the Malmedy Massacre.
About 70 soldiers are stripped of their weapons, sent out into a field, and gunned down unarmed by Nazis soldiers after surrendering. Malmedy, Belgium. Dec. 17, 1944

**Nazi commanders inspect a map, planning their next move. Luxembourg. Jan. 4, 1945.**

**Two American soldiers on the streets of Bastogne, a city under siege by the German army. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 19, 1944.**

**American tank destroyers push through the fog, moving to cut off the German offensive. Werbomont, Belgium, Dec. 20, 1944**

**An American patrol searches the woods for Nazi paratroopers. Between Eupen and Butgenbach, Belgium. Dec. 18, 1944.**

**A German armored infantry car moves through the Ardennes. Belgium or Luxembourg. December, 1944.**

**The devastated ruins of a Belgian city. Stavelot, Belgium. Dec. 30, 1944**

**American soldiers in Bastogne walk by the dead bodies of their friends, killed in a late-night bombing on Christmas Eve. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 25, 1944**

Christmas during wartime.
Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe and his staff celebrate Christmas in the barracks, surrounded by Nazi soldiers. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 25, 1944.

**On the road to liberate Bastogne, the 5th Armored Regiment gathers around a tank and opens their Christmas presents. Eupen, Belgium. Dec. 25, 1944.**

**The 347th Infantry Regiment pause for a meal in the frozen forests of Belgium. Near La Roche, Belgium. Jan. 13, 1945.**

**Soldiers outside of Bastogne keep an eye out for German planes. Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 11, 1945.**

**An American soldier uses a piece of equipment stolen from the Germans to watch for their planes. Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 11, 1945**

**The crew of the “Black Widow” prepare to shoot at a German plane. Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 11, 1945**

**The destroyed rubble of an Allied plane. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 1944.**

**An infantryman charges out into the open on his own, protected only by the cover fire of a brother-in-arms. Dec. 24, 1944.**

**After running into a Nazi patrol, American soldiers drag back a prisoner: an officer of the SS. Bra, Belgium. Dec. 25, 1944.**

**American soldiers of the 289th Infantry Regiment march along the snow-covered road on their way to cut off the Nazi offensive. January 24, 1945.**

**American soldiers out on patrol, dressed in a crude camouflage of white bed sheets. Lellig, Luxembourg. Dec. 30, 1944.**

**Generals of the 101st Airborne under a sign that reads: “The Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st.” Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 18, 1945.**

**American soldiers arrive safely in Bastogne. These men had held off the Germans in Wilts, refusing to give up the ground until their last bullet was expended. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 20, 1944.**

**A gunner draws a swastika on his antiaircraft gun for every Nazi plane he shoots down. Sourbrodt, Belgium. Dec. 31, 1944.**

**American vehicles get trapped in the deep, thick snowbanks of the Belgian winter. Wallerode, Belgium. Jan. 30, 1945.**

**American infantrymen move through the thick snow. Amonies, Belgium. Jan. 4, 1945.**

**American Infantrymen crouch under snow-filled trenches, struggling to fend off the onslaught of the German army. Kinkelt, Belgium. Dec. 14, 1944.**

**A soldier stumbles upon the dead body of a fallen paratrooper. Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 12, 1945.**

**Another shot from the site of the Malmedy Massacre, where American prisoners-of-war were gunned down, defenseless and unarmed, by their Nazi captors. Malmedy, Belgium. Dec. 11, 1944.**

**The dead body of a soldier killed in Malmedy is carried out on a stretcher. Malmedy, Belgium. December, 1944.**

**Troops make their way through a snowstorm. Herresbach, Belgium. Jan. 28, 1945.**

**A tank rolls through the thick snowbanks, on its ways to reclaim a location lost to the Germans. Herresbach, Belgium. Jan. 28, 1945.**

**American soldiers fire across an open field. Bastogne, Belgium. December, 1944.**

**An airdrop of supplies lands on the sieged city of Bastogne. Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 26, 1944.**

**The British Royal Air Force drops a payload of bombs down on the German army. St. Vith, Belgium. Dec. 26, 1944.**

**A dead German soldier lies on the streets. Stavelot, Belgium. Jan. 2, 1945.**

**American troops take prisoners. Belgium. January, 1945.**

**Young boys in the Hitler Youth, thrown into war in a Panzer division of the Nazi army, are captured alive by American troops. Belgium. December, 1944.**

**American soldiers march a line of Nazi prisoners. Belgium. December, 1944.**

**German prisoners-of-war are put to work digging graves for the men who died defending Bastogne. Bastogne, Belgium. December, 1944.**

**A rifle squad fires a volley for men who died defending Bastogne. Bastogne, Belgium. Jan. 22, 1945.**

A lone soldier takes a peaceful walk through a forest outside Bastogne.
Bastogne, Belgium. Dec. 27, 1944.

Victorian Fashion Was Not Always Elegant: 32 Photos That Show the Sometime Awfulness of Women’s Hairstyles From the 19th Century

We often see images of the nineteenth-century women in elegant gowns with stylized hairstyles. Have you ever thought that sometimes they also had some awful hairdos? Just check out these photos to see.

31 Interesting Photos Showing Atlantic City during the 1960s

**Atlantic City Boardwalk from Balcony**

**Chalfont Haddon Hall, Steeplechase and Steel piers**

**Feeding pigeons in front of McCrory’s**

50 Amazing Photos from the Project Apollo Archives

44 Beautiful Photos of Ann-Margret during the 1960s

Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), known mononymously as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer.

As an actress, Ann-Margret is known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Train Robbers (1973), Tommy (1975), The Villain (1979), Newsies (1992), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Going in Style (2017). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. In 2010, she won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Her singing and acting careers span six decades, starting in 1961; initially, she was billed as a female version of Elvis Presley. She has a sultry, vibrant contralto voice. She had a minor success in 1961 and a charting album in 1964, and she scored a disco hit in 1979. She recorded a critically acclaimed gospel album in 2001 and an album of Christmas songs in 2004.

Ann-Margret has no children, but she was the stepmother of the three children of her husband Roger Smith, an actor who later became her manager. She and Smith were married from May 8, 1967, until his death on June 4, 2017. Prior to this, she dated Eddie Fisher and was romantically linked to Elvis Presley during the filming of Viva Las Vegas in 1964.

A keen motorcyclist, Ann-Margret rode a 500 cc Triumph T100C Tiger in The Swinger (1966) and used the same model, fitted with a nonstandard electric starter, in her stage show and her TV specials. She was featured in Triumph Motorcycles’ official advertisements in the 1960s. She suffered three broken ribs and a fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a motorcycle in rural Minnesota in 2000.

50 Vintage Photos of People Wearing Bathing Suits From Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

By the end of the 19th century people were flocking to the oceanside beaches for popular seaside activities such as swimming, surf bathing, and diving. The clumsy Victorian-style bathing costumes were becoming burdensome. A need for a new style bathing suits that retained modesty but was free enough to allow the young lady to engage in swimming was obvious.

By 1910 bathing suits no longer camouflaged the contours of the female body. The yards of fabric used in Victorian bathing skirts and bloomers were reduced to show a little more of the figure and to allow for exposure to the sun.

Up until the first decades of the 20th century, the only activity for women in the ocean involved jumping through the waves while holding on to a rope attached to an off-shore buoy. By 1915, women athletes started to share the actual sport of swimming with men and thus began to reduce the amount of heavy fabric used in their billowing swimsuits.

By the early 1920s women’s bathing suits were reduced to a one piece garment with a long top that covered shorts. Though matching stockings were still worn, vintage swimwear began to shrink and more and more flesh was exposed from the bottom of the trunks to the tops of the stockings. By the mid-1920s Vogue magazine was telling its readers that “the newest thing for the sea is a jersey bathing suit as near a maillot as the unwritten law will permit.”

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