#1940s

[random-brushstrokes]

Oskar Laske - Garden at the Inn (ca. 1945)

[eirene]

A woman putting on her stockings and wearing a brassiere and petticoat by Iris.

Photographer: John Rawlings

Vogue, February 15th, 1948

[bygone-hollywood]

Vivien Leigh at the 12th Academy Awards (1940)

[gameraboy2]

"Every Man a Superman at Christmas", 1940

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Little dog wears a sandwich board reading, "I’m Picketing Your Heart for the Humane Society," 42nd Street & 6th Avenue, 1940.

Photo: Andrew Herman via MCNY/Urban Archive Instagram

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe, then Norma Jeane, photographed by David Conover, 1944. 

[classicfilmblr]

John Garfield as Frank Chambers The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) dir. Tay Garnett

[normasshearer]

It's such a little while ago, really, but it seems an eternity since that train went out of the station, taking him away, into the darkness. I was happy then.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 1945, dir. David Lean

[uspiria]

Cat People (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[danskjavlarna]

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Here's my seasonal collection of vintage (mostly weird) fashion.

[weirdlookindog]

Weird Tales Club membership card, c. 1940s

[theworldatwar]

Smoke pours from the USS Arizona on Battleship Row during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - 7th Dec 1941

[sasaofastora]

Jim and Judy both became very popular at their new school. They are both very charismatic and love to joke and make mischief, and spend much of their free time wandering around Brindleton with their friends.

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[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, November 1944.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Farley Granger, 1949.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sailors aboard the British cruiser Phoebe, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs, line up for their daily issue of rum, December 5, 1941.

Photo: Associated Press via News19