Pal at NYUFS said classic film changed his life and talked all the time about film so I went to @TCM and that's #HowIGotThisWay #TCMParty

Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra together on the set of the 1953 film From Here to Eternity. Director: Fred Zinnemann. Story by: James Jones

Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn practicing their fencing skills for the 1935 swashbuckler Captain Blood.

Barbara Stanwyck captured by photographer George Hurrell from a session during 1944 to promote Frank Capra's Meet John Doe

Claudette Colbert at The Beverly Hilton Hotel during rehearsals for the American Film Institute (AFI) Tribute to Frank Capra in Beverly Hills, California, on March 3, 1982.

Lauren Bacall visiting her old high school, the Julia Richman High School in New York City, 1945 by photographer Nina Leen for LIFE magazine. This is right after rising to fame with her debut film To Have and Have Not (1944)

Remembering costume designer Edith Head on her birthday #BOTD Her first screen credit was She Done Him Wrong (1933) and a record 431 credits later, her last was Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) When tallied, her career produced 35 nominations and 8 Oscar wins.

Rita Hayworth mid-dance: You'll Never Get Rich (1941) Sidney Landfield

Looking forward to reading: "An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story" - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Bride of Frankenstein)

Bette Davis: photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1939 for Life magazine at her home in Coldwater Canyon.

Ava Gardner on the set of East Side, West Side (1949) Mervyn LeRoy

Celeste Holm walking a dog past a store window in New York City. Photo by Constantin Joffé for Vogue, May 1945.

Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh on a ship's railing together.

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller their Ford Thunderbird convertible shortly after their wedding in July 1956. Photo taken by Paul Schutzer.

Myrna Loy in a leather jacket holding snowshoes in 1933. Photo taken by Margaret Chute.

Lizabeth Scott in a 1946 photo by photographer A.L. "Whitey" Schafer.

Marilyn Monroe in a knee-length fur at La Guardia Airport in 1959

Constance Bennett: What Price Hollywood? (1932) George Cukor #BOTD #Happybirthday

Ginger Rogers: "My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."

"I married first, won an Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!" Joan Fontaine #BOTD #Happybirthday

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