A Collection of 40 Cool Vintage Photos of Celebrity Weddings

A look back at some of the most beautiful celebrity weddings of all time—from iconic Hollywood actresses to glamorous royals.

Natalie Talmage and Buster Keaton, 1921. Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Wallis Simpson and Edward, Prince of Wales, 1937. Keystone / Getty Images

Nat King Cole and Maria Hawkins Ellington, 1948. Hulton Archives / Getty Images

Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton, 1950. Keystone / Getty Images

Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, 1951. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

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Wonderful Color Photographs of The Beatles' Rooftop Concert in 1969

30th January 1969, The Beatles surprised a central London business district with an impromptu concert from the roof of Apple offices at Savile Row, London. They played tracks including “Don’t Let Me Down”, “I’ve Got a Feeling”, “Dig A Pony” and “Get Back”.

The police arrived to halt the proceedings, but the band continued to play. Despite their protest, no arrests were made, and the performance continued for 42 minutes.

Ringo said: “It was a memorable day for me – we were doin’ what we did best – making music. But I am still disappointed the policemen didn’t drag me off me drums!”

This was their final public performance.

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20 Rare Color Photographs of the Continuation War From the Early 1940s

For the sovereign Finland, the Continuation War is the longest and in many ways the most exhausting struggle, which still today occasionally causes heated discussions.

The Continuation War refers to the hostilities between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II, from 1941 to 1944.

At the time of the war, the Finns adopted this name to clarify how they viewed it in relation to the preceding Winter War. The Soviet Union saw the war as part of its struggle against Nazi Germany and its allies, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The war was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Germany regarded its operations in the region as part of its overall war efforts on the Eastern Front, and it provided Finland with critical material support and military cooperation.

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16 Interesting Vintage Photos of Adam West and Burt Ward on the Set of 'Batman: The Movie' in 1966

Batman, often promoted as Batman: The Movie, is a 1966 American superhero film based on the Batman television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.

Released in July, the film hit theaters two months after the last episode of the first season of the television series. The film includes most members of the original TV cast, with the exception of Lee Meriwether as Catwoman, the character previously played by Julie Newmar in two episodes of the series' first season.

Below are some of interesting behind the scenes photos from the making of the film. Most of them were taken by Richard Hewett in Los Angeles in 1966 for Look magazine.

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Interesting Color Photographs Document Everyday Life in Coney Island in the Early 1960s

When Aaron Rose began photographing Coney Island in 1961, he bypassed the bluster of the theme parks and sideshows for the more intimate interactions of beach dwellers. Wielding his camera surreptitiously, observing as if from a neighboring blanket, Rose documented a “sun-baked melting pot” of beachgoers of all ages, ethnicities, and walks of life, each one utterly unselfconscious, absorbed in a world of his or her own.

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Portraits of Naughty Typewriters From the 1920s

Secretaries have fed the imagination since the first one entered the office in the 1880s. Secretaries appeared in different stages of nudity in pictures ranging from innocent leg-shots to total nudes and beyond.

Produced in France in the 1920s, these photos are early examples of women being sexualized in a office setting. See more on the Virtual Typewriter Museum.

25 Vintage Photographs of Athens in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Panoramic view of Lycabettus Hill in the background, 1850.

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The Old Palace in Athens, 1900

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Rarely Seen Vintage Photographs of a Lost London From Between the 1900s and 1910s

A small collection of rare vintage photographs of London, taken between the 1910s and 1910s, from the Archives of English Heritage. The photographs provide a unique record of whole districts of London as they were vanishing...

Arch, Shepherd’s Place, off White’s Row, now Tenter Ground, Spitalfields, 1909.

Evans and Witt, Stationers and Bookbinders, Booksellers and Tobacconists, ca. 1900s.

Cloth Fair, Smithfield, 1906.

House with shop, ca. 1900s.

8 Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, 1908 – near St Paul’s.

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Steve Jobs Giving His Middle Finger to IBM, 1983

This rare photograph of Steve Jobs demonstrates the Apple co-founder’s infamous rebellious spirit as he “flips the bird” outside an IBM building in New York City.

It was taken in 1983 when the Macintosh team visited the city for a meeting with Newsweek, and was posted on Google+ by Andy Hertzfield, a member of the original Macintosh development team, “in memoriam for Steve Jobs as 2011 draws to a close”:

“In December 1983, a few weeks before the Mac launch, we made a quick trip to New York City to meet with Newsweek, who was considering doing a cover story on the Mac. The photo was taken spontaneously as we walked around Manhattan by Jean Pigozzi, a wild French jet setter who was hanging out with us at the time. Somehow I ended up with a copy of it. My editor begged me to include it in my book, but I was too timid to ask for permission, especially since IBM was still making CPUs for Apple at the time.”

(via Cult of Mac)

Pictures of Beautiful Lana Turner in Hollywood, ca. 1940

Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress who worked in film, television, theater and radio. Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid women in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s (MGM) biggest stars, with her films earning the studio more than $50 million during her 18-year contract with them. She is frequently cited as a popular culture icon of Hollywood glamour.

Born to working-class parents in northern Idaho, Turner spent her early life there before her family relocated to San Francisco. In 1936, Turner was 15 when she was discovered while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in Hollywood. At the age of 16, she was signed to a personal contract by Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy, who took her with him when he transferred to MGM in 1938. Turner attracted attention by playing the role of a murder victim in her first film, LeRoy’s They Won’t Forget (1937), and she later transitioned into featured roles, often appearing as an ingénue.

During the early 1940s, Turner established herself as a leading actress and one of MGM’s top performers, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941); the horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942), one of several films in which she starred opposite Clark Gable. Turner’s reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which established her as a serious dramatic actress.

Her popularity continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Media controversy surrounded Turner in 1958 when her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed Turner’s lover Johnny Stompanato to death in their home during a domestic struggle. Turner’s next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest financial successes of her career, and her final starring role in Madame X (1966) earned her a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress.

Turner spent most of the 1970s and early 1980s in semi-retirement, making her final feature film appearance in 1980. In 1982, she accepted a much-publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon Crest, which afforded the series notably high ratings. In 1992, Turner was diagnosed with throat cancer and died of the disease three years later at age 74.

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Futuristic Ladies: Promotional Shots for the "Forbidden Planet" (1956)

Good girl deserves a good robot for herself. These images are promotional shots for the "Forbidden Planet" movie (1956) with Anne Francis, rare shots from various 60s TV series.

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