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Natalie Grace

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Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express (1932)

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Anita Ekberg in Hollywood or Bust (1956) dir. Frank Tashlin

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Salma Hayek

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“One day in the lobby of the Pera Palace Hotel I saw one of the most hauntingly beautiful women I had ever beheld. Her features and her movements were so distinguished and aristocratic-looking that I decided she must be a refugee Russian princess. The porter said he did not know her name but he thought she was a Swedish actress who had come to Constantinople with the great Swedish film director, Maurice Stiller. Several times after this I saw her in the street. I was terribly troubled by her eyes and I longed to speak to her, but I did not have the courage. Also I did not even know what language to use. She gave me the impression of great loneliness which only added to my own already melancholy state of mind. I hated to leave Constantinople without speaking to her, but sometimes destiny is kinder than we think, or maybe it is just that we cannot escape our destiny. Strangely enough, as the train pulled out of the station which carried me away from Constantinople I had a strong premonition that I might again see the beautiful and haunting face on some other shore.”

- Mercedes de Acosta on her first meeting with Greta Garbo

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Elle Fanning

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Anita Ekberg by Andre de Dienes, 1955

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Milan Street Style

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Hedy Lamarr in Ziegfeld Girl (1941) dir. Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley