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.

French postcard c. 1927

Lotus (fore) and Lotus (aft) Photographs by Bob Wallace c. 1937

Jantzen swimwear, 1954 (x)

Boulevard de Strasbourg (Corsets) photographed by Eugène Atget, Paris (1912)

Marilyn Monroe by Andre de Dienes, 1953

Gun 1, New York, 1955 photographed by William Klein (x)

“… This seems to be considered my key image… It’s fake violence, a parody. I asked the boy to point the gun at me and then look tough. He did, and then we both laughed… [I see it] as a double self-portrait. I was both the street kid trying to look tough, and the timid, good little boy on the right.”

Pour Lire a Deux, 1936

Marilyn Monroe’s passport photo, 1954

Couple standing in the rain in Berlin, 1936

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes at Martindale’s Book Store,1953 

Marilyn Monroe wearing a potato sack, photographed by Earl Theisen, 1952

Lovers with 3-D Glasses at the Palace Theater, 1943. Photograph by Arthur (Weegee) Fellig

Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (1961)

Universal Starlet Patricia Alphin c. 1947

Women wearing oversized masks at Venice Beach, California, c.1930 (x)