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October 1954. "Actress Ava Gardner." Color transparency by Milton Greene for the Look magazine cover story "What Is Sex Appeal?" View full size.
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."
Small town girl from NC makes it big in Hollywood. And you can see why that is from this picture.
Note how the retouching around Ava's eyes has, after 65 years, turned brown on the transparency.
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