Happy Valentine's Day!

After Halloween, Valentine's Day is probably my favorite holiday photo theme.

First, a scan of Rita Hayworth on the cover of the March 1943 issue of Modern Screen magazine, made to look like an actual Valentine card.

The "magazine as a Valentine" was something that the fan magazines did fairly often from the 1930s through the 1950s. Modern Screen was especially fond of doing it. Unfortunately this is the only Valentine-themed magazine that I own, but hopefully I'll come into possession of more in the future!

Joan Leslie as the Queen of Hearts in the 1940s.

Adorable Puerto Rican actress Olga San Juan in 1945.

Nancy Carroll in the 1930s.

Lana Turner posing in front of a giant red velvet heart, 1940s.

Betty Grable's leggy Valentine's Day photos are still very popular. Here's a slightly less common one, from the 1940s.

source: flickr.com

And last but not least, Miss Marilyn Monroe, inside a giant heart wearing a bathing suit with hearts all over it! The photo is from the late 1940s.

Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to say Merry Christmas! I was hoping to post some of my favorite Christmas-themed photos, but I ran out of time! Oh well, I'll do it next year when I might actually have some followers, haha. For now I'll just post these two amazing photos of Rin Tin Tin.

New Scanner!

I got a new scanner! This is really exciting because my previous scanner was at least a decade old and the glass was all scratched up and dirty and impossible to clean. It would take me a really long time to edit all the dust and scratches out of my scans.

So here are my first vintage magazine scans done with my new scanner. I tried to find something festive and these covers were the best I could come up with.

Ava Gardner on the cover of the November 1953 issue of Modern Screen magazine. They obviously just found a picture of her wearing a green dress and then added a red and white background to make it look Christmas-y!

And here's a Winter-themed photo of Barbara Stanwyck on the January 1948 cover of Motion Picture magazine.

Somewhere I have an issue of Eye magazine with a picture of Marilyn Monroe warming herself in front of a fireplace, but I couldn't find it this evening! Oh well.

Happy Thanksgiving

I've been a little too busy/distracted lately to post any new entries in a while, plus I visited family in California a few weeks ago (pics from the Westwood Memorial Cemetery coming soon!), but Thanksgiving is tomorrow so I have to post some of my favorite stars in Thanksgiving photos!
 

 Jean Arthur and Lillian Roth dressed as sexy pilgrims, hunting turkeys in the snow. This was probably taken in the early 1930s.

A similar sexy pilgrim hunting photo, taken in 1950, this time featuring Marilyn Monroe in her early days as a 20th Century Fox player.

A beautiful color photograph of a young Donna Reed, taken in 1941.

Cute Joan Leslie, taken sometime in the 1940s.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!