Elizabeth Taylor cradles her youngest son Christopher Wilding c. 1955
“Because my mother and I looked so different physically – I inherited my father’s German-Irish skin and blonde hair – when we were in public, people would try to figure out who and what we were to each other. My mother would have named me Kitt whether I was a boy or a girl, and often introduced us to people, saying, “I’m Eartha and she’s Kitt,” as if I completed her.“Kitt McDonald
Lillian Bassman :: Southwest Passage - Sunset Pink, Model in pajamas by Kickernick, Harper’s Bazaar, 1951
“If I were to write a biography,” my mother once told me, “it would start like this: I was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4 1929… and I died six weeks later”. My mother felt that her life had been rather straightforward and therefore not worth much writing about. Her Victorian upbringing dictated that you never call attention to yourself. So she worked hard, she was a good mother, and she got on with the rest of it.”
Happy Birthday Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929)
Rosalind Russell and Norma Shearer dining in the MGM canteen during the filming of The Women, 1939
Grace Kelly in Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954)
“I’m not much on rear window ethics.”
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” - Audrey Hepburn
Happy birthday to the matchless wonder of Audrey Hepburn! Take a candid look at the iconic star at home in 1953.
