Name's Cat. I'm an L.A. gal who loves everything from classic movie queens to pinups to classic horror. My likes vary a lot. Having said that, I refuse to fit in a box or apologize for being me.

Portrait c.1910 by Reutlinger

vintageblackglamour:

A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Photo: Clyde Woods. 

La Veuve Noire by Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)

simply-divoon:

Diana Dors shows off her beautiful one-piece swimsuit she wore to the 1956 Cannes Film Festival

simply-divoon:

Diana Dors photographed by Edward Quinn, 1956

simply-divoon:

Portraits of Ava Gardner for the film One Touch of Venus, 1948

Marilyn Monroe gets her hair done by Columbia’s stylist Helen Hunt c. 1948

sissydudeomen2:

(via waiter, there’s a hair in my satire (via peacay))

American Hairdresser, May 1945

Maybelline ad c. 1930

Modern Beauty Shop Magazine, July 1946

lynxolita:

Carole Landis and her beautiful vanity.

simply-divoon:

Jayne Mansfield, 1950’s

Hedy Lamarr in a Maybelline ad c. 1945