Days Gone By

Robert Monroe, Vitagraph Studios, Hollywood, California, ca. 1920s.

D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio in 1919. Lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O’Brien (right) stand in the background.

Source: Library of Congress

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Actress Angela Lansbury clad in costume for role in the movie “The Court Jester,” eating a hamburger with actor Basil Rathbone while sitting at lunch in the large Paramount Studio commissary during a day of filming, Hollywood, California, December 1954.

Peter Stackpole, Ingrid Bergman in costume, enjoying a cup of coffee, Hollywood, California, August 1941.

Gordon Parks, A model wearing a gold-beaded sheath gown by designer Helen Rose, Hollywood, California, 1959.

Lucille Ball in a strapless black lace evening dress. Photograph by John Florea. Hollywood, California, October 1942.

Pier Angeli. Photograph by Allan Grant. Hollywood, California, June 1954.

A film crew moving lights on a Hollywood back lot. Photograph by Ralph Crane. Hollywood, California, March 1960.

Twin celebrity correspondents posing in front of the famous Hollywood sign. Photograph by Ed Clark. Los Angeles, California, October 1951.

Actress Greer Garson cuddling her two white standard poodles. Photograph by Peter Stackpole. Hollywood, California, June 1941.