Three Classic Views of 3.

Gina Bellman very happy in this garden. 

Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, sitting on some stairs somewhere. 

Nothing beats a great pair of legs !!!!

Sophia Loren seated in wide hat elegantly!

During Jim Crow era...

Sidney Poitier with his first wife, Juanita Hardy, and their daughters.

Ruby Stevens in a publicity photo taken 

during her Broadway hoofer days.

Sophia Loren with mother during the premiere of "C'era Una Volta," 1967. 

A Look Back

Dyan Cannon on phone in the '60's

Sophia Loren in a breeze.

Helen Mirren, actress "Woman In Gold" 

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Beautiful and stunningly beautiful white women from days gone by formed and support the opinions about what was the standard for this and the last century.

Look at this gallery. It is more of a tribute. Women like Kim Novak and Sophia Loren featured in this gallery of poses, who set standards today's woman glances at in their mirrors for glimpses. Yes, this is a tribute to the influence of white women in our sensibilities. This gallery of comparative photographs skips through the mid-twentieth century with darlings like Caroline de Maigret and Lucille Baugh! Audrey Hepburn set the standard of elegant poise and the long forgotten Isabel Jewell!

If you look close and beneath the assumptions they are all white women, whose influence framed the network of thought and esteem Black women from then until now hold as mirrors. In the strive for freedom Black American's struggle for identity begins with images framing their perception of themselves.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
October 14, 2017

pretty legs of Ginger Rogers.

Anna Q. Nillson in 1920. 

Mae Busch's exquisite beauty in 1922. 

Hedy Lamar in the style of the 1940's.

The Barbara's

Barbara Carrera's exquisite beauty !!!!

"Barbara Babcock, an actress on the series, Hill Street Blues, in the early 1980's was to me the most sensual woman on television. What she did onscreen was undeniable, memorable, and unbelievable!!"~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Barbara Corcoran on the red carpet in May of 2017!

Barbara Walters, news anchor, seated!

Barbara Alberti, writer at age 71.

Barbara Stanwyck embarking on a short vacation in 1937. There was no extended wear lipstick then, and brush on cake mascara added very little color or length. She was effectively without makeup here.

Barbara Streisand, a profound singer and actress.

Barbara Bach, actress is a Bond Girl & 2nd wife of Ringo Star !!!!

born today.

Gallery of past stars.

Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress.

A birth to remember for what she did in life.

Andra Martin is an American actress.

Andra Martin (born July 15, 1935, in Rockford, Illinois) is an American actress.

Four Looks Backwards!

Famous actresses when they were young were like other women: full of hope and promise. Prepared for work they worked the systems in place to produce. It is this work ethic that transcends merely looking good and desirable. If it means anything it means work ain't hard, it is necessary to get what one wants out of life! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/29/17

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933 in Chicago) is an American actress! 

Carole Lombard's pretty legs.

Virginia Gilmore exiting a car !!!!

Natalie Wood

a Look they Have.

Dana DeArmond, the mystery of

Marilyn Monroe leaning against a car. 

exquisite beauty of Yesse Rodriguez

by Gleen Parson 

perfect legs of Diane Lane. 

CHRISTMAS DREAM

Ginger Rogers, The Girl with the Best Filled Xmas stocking in 1950.

The Hollywood 'Santa Claus Guild' named actress Ginger Rogers "The Girl with the Best Filled Christmas Stocking" in 1950' - the toy-stuffed stocking was given to her favorite charity for handicapped children.


Classic Hollywood 

CHRISTMAS IS BEST INA DREAM!

Dolores Dorn, film and television actress.

CHRISTMAS TIME A'COMING!!

Actress Anne Jeffreys Pops Out Of A Package, (1946}.

Marriage in Hollywood.

"The images created and sustained by Hollywood shaped the ideas of the modern American family in superficial, and significant ways. They solidified the authority of the nuclear family so far down in our collective memories the stability of, and ancient strength of the clan systems of the extended families and the traditions and rituals they have established deep in the indigenous mindsets got lost in the 'American Dream'.

The way people of the darker hue need to revive their souls is to shake this out of our systems as easily as one wakes up from a gripping nightmare pretending to be other than what it really is: the nightmare! The way white people need to perform the same task is different, and unlike the way others of us must unlearn! You see, those who created and seem to succeed from the dysfunction of the nuclear family have to recognize its enormity with fears acquainted with denial. At some point the various directions realization takes the different people towards wholeness, people will come together; but not superficially. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [9/9/17]

Orson Welles, wife Rita Hayworth and daughter Rebecca at home in 1945.

Too Fine to be True!

Yvonne DeCarlo 1943, an sexy photo of the later Lily on "The Munsters" with Fred Gwinn as Herman Munster.

"Remember that show, that look she had on that show?" 

Yvonne DeCarlo, aka Lily Munster from The Munsters.

Ah, those hats! Eight of them.

Anne Vyalitsyna modeling either the hat, the look, the shades, the cloth. Don't know.

But, what a model!

Anne Bancroft, actress

Ana Cheri, former Playboy model now a fitness trainer just before the new year of 2017.

Anne Heche visiting Guggenheim in New York 2014

Archie Panjabi donned a hat

Asian woman cool in this gear.

Elegant Black lady by Girl With Curves on Flickr.

"Hats or haute couture, as perceived by regular folks on the streets in the 1950's created its own language: envy."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories  

WHOA!

alternative model modeling for Murpho's Rod's and Customs is Keke Cancino

(2013)

Colored Woman by Pasckie Pascua. acrylic. watercolor. pens. sharpies. pastels. oil. paper canvas.

spiked headdress post-apocalyptic, tribal look by Miss G. Designs.

Sculpture of a woman chiseling fat off ...

pin up girl by Gil Elvyren

Vintage book covers