30 Glamorous Color Photos of June Haver in the 1940s and ’50s

Born 1926 in Rock Island, Illinois, American actress and dancer June Haver signed a $3,500-a-week contract with 20th Century Fox and made her film debut playing an uncredited role as a hat-check girl in The Gang’s All Here in 1943.

20th Century Fox had plans to mold Haver as a glamour girl stand-in for the studio’s two biggest stars, Alice Faye and Betty Grable, but she never achieved their popularity.

Haver debuted on screen in a supporting role as Cri-Cri in Home in Indiana (1944). According to the actress, she had just turned 17 years old when her scenes were filmed. Even before Home in Indiana was released, she was assigned to replace Alice Faye in the Technicolor-musical, Irish Eyes Are Smiling.

Later that year, Haver co-starred with her future husband, Fred MacMurray, in Where Do We Go From Here?, which was the only time the pair appeared together in a film. Her final film appearance was in 1953’s The Girl Next Door.

June Haver died from respiratory failure in 2005 in Brentwood, California at the age of 79. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1777 Vine Street.

Take a look at these glamorous color photos to see the beauty of June Haver in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Two of the Earliest “Revolving” Self-Portraits by the Tournachon Brothers From the 19th Century

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (April 6, 1820 – March 20, 1910), also known as Nadar, was a famous French photographer and caricaturist. Nadar was one of the earlier photographers working with portraiture. Around 1865 he produced this series of self-portraits consisting of 12 frames showing different angles of him sitting still in a chair. Except for a smile in 1 frame, not even a fold in his jacket or a single hair seems to change between the different angles.

This could be regarded as a predecessor to the chronophotography which Marey and Muybridge started to experiment with more than 10 years later. As the sequence revolves around space rather than time it is even more related to the ‘bullet-time’ effect popularized by “The Matrix” about 135 years later. There’s no clue if more than one camera was used in the shoot, but it’s certainly well-executed.

This was a bit strange because it is unusual to see a photographic self-portrait in this kind of sequence at the time. Though, he wasn’t the only one to do this. Before Nadar, in 1858, his younger brother Adrien taking a revolving self-portrait by photographing 12 varying images of him standing next to a chair, holding his hat slowly rotated through 360 degrees.

Adrien Tournachon (August 25, 1825 – January 24, 1903) was the younger brother of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar. The two became embroiled in a legal battle over the exclusive right to the name “Nadar.” Félix had arranged for Adrien, a painter, to learn the photographic process and then to open his own photographic studio. When the business began to fail the two collaborated, and Félix supplied financial backing, contacts, and his pseudonym. Adrien asked Félix to relinquish his share in the studio and continued the practice alone using the name “Nadar jeune,” which prompted Félix to take legal action. After the court ruled that Félix was “the only, the true Nadar,” Adrien turned his attention to photographing animals.

Rare Photos of Elvis Presley and Ginger Alden During His Last Vacation in Hawaii, 1977

Ginger Alden is an actress and model. She has appeared on Capitol, Hollywood Beat, and Life Goes On. She is the spokeswoman for the Claridge Hotel and Casino and had a successful modeling career for products such as Clairol, Vidal Sassoon, Maybelline, Avon, and Virginia Slims.

Alden was Elvis Presley’s fiancée and last love who shared his last few months with him. On the night of January 26, 1977, just two months after they met, Elvis proposed to her at Graceland.

Ginger Alden’s first book, Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley’s Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story, was published in 2015.

These rare vintage photos captured beautiful moments of Elvis Presley and Ginger Alden during his last vacation in Hawaii in March 1977.

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Elvis Presley Haircut Fever Among Young Ladies of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1957

In 1957 the top-selling single in America was Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up,” and the top hairstyle in Grand Rapids, Michigan was a tribute to the man who sang it. America was so wild for Elvis at this time that when the singer made his debut on the Ed Sullivan Show, 82.6 percent of America’s televisions were tuned in. Glenwood Dodgson, who operated a chain of beauty salons in Grand Rapids, read the market and began offering women an Elvis hairdo. He knew what he was doing.

In six weeks more than 1,000 women came to Dodgson’s shops and had themselves made over in the image of Elvis. The makeover cost the not-outrageous price of $1.50 (which would be about $14 today).

The group photograph here shows that there was some variety in the hairdo approach. While every woman was given Elvis’ sideburns, each took a different tack to the forehead locks, and some went all the way and dyed their hair black.

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Stunning Portraits of a Young Glenn Close in 1989

Glenn Close began her professional career on stage in 1974 with Love for Love and was mostly a New York stage actress until the early 1980s. Her work included Broadway productions of Barnum in 1980 and The Real Thing in 1983, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Her film debut came in The World According to Garp (1982), which was followed by supporting roles in the films The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984); all three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Close went on to establish herself as a Hollywood leading lady with roles in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), both of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Take a look back at a young and stunning Glenn Close in 1989 through 10 beautiful portraits taken by George Holz for Esquire magazine:

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French Classic Beauty: Gorgeous Photos of Yvonne Furneaux in the 1950s and ’60s

Born 1928 as Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd in Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French actress Yvonne Furneaux moved to England in 1946 to study Modern Languages at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she was known as “Tessa Scatcherd”.

Furneaux began her acting career in England in 1952 with a few minor productions. Later she participated in international productions and worked with Catherine Deneuve in the movie Repulsion (1965).

Furneaux married French director of photography Jacques Natteau, who died in 2007. Retired from acting, she lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Yvonne Furneaux in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Bathers Changing Clothes Using the ‘Skreenette’ at the Public Beach, 1929

The Skreenette, a new bathing tent, for the beach in 1929. It consists of a bell-shaped tent arranged with shoulder straps whereby the bather can dress and undress entirely screened, at the public beach and bath pool.