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- Hats, hats, hats!
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- A Not-So-Grand Central
- Must ask
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- Meet me tonight in Dreamland
- Could we put on
- What's the season?
- Fountain
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- Nice touch
- A sad end for the Potsdam
- Horse muffler
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- Lost to "Progress"
- Fred's Chauffeur
- Equine Exhaust
- Not for public release
- More pole less trees
- What a shame
- Rounding the corner
- Who needs poles?
- No longer there
- Sacrament Meeting
- Before the Three Freds
- A story of three Freds (and a Frances)
- Death on Mt. Washington: The Tale of Lizzie Bourne
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Rara Ava: 1954
October 1954. "Actress Ava Gardner." Color transparency by Milton Greene for the Look magazine cover story "What Is Sex Appeal?" View full size.
Classic Beauty
Ava Gardner, the slender beauty who filled the void left by the fall from grace of Ingrid Bergman ("America's Sweetheart"), was in turn supplanted by the far more lavishly upholstered Marilyn Monroe. Notably, Monroe's "look" now seems far more dated than Gardner's, whose enduring appeal fits the very definition of "classic."
Ava Gardner
Small town girl from NC makes it big in Hollywood. And you can see why that is from this picture.
Cover Girl
Note how the retouching around Ava's eyes has, after 65 years, turned brown on the transparency.
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