A girl in the window. 1964. Beautiful Polish actress Pola Raksa

Polish actress Pola Raksa
Born April 14, 1941 in the city of Lida, Grodno region of the Belarusian SSR, Apolonia Raksa is a Polish film, theater and television actress. A charming fairy of Polish cinema, Raksa played many significant roles in well-known films.
The girl grew up, finished school, entered Wroclaw University, began to study polonistics, and occasionally performed in the student theater “Pun.” And … a miracle happened. Of those miracles, which girls often dream about and who nevertheless do not so often wait for them in life.
Once, photo correspondent took picture of Pola in a dairy cafe. Photo of a beautiful student appeared on the cover of the magazine Dookola Svyata. And then, the director and professor of the Lodz Higher School of Theater and Cinematography Maria Kanevskaya saw the photo. She found Pola and invited her to appear in her film about children “Satan from the seventh grade” (1960).
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1960s film star British actress Sarah Miles

1960s film star British actress Sarah Miles
It’s safe to say that Sarah Miles was lucky. Debut in the movie at the age of twenty-one and appearance in the same film with Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – this happens infrequently. It does not matter that the film itself (“Term of trial” by P. Glenville) is not a masterpiece, and the role is not great. However, everyone who appears next to a figure of the same scale as Olivier, involuntarily draws attention. Indeed, people noticed Sarah Miles, and the newspapers announced the birth of a new “star.”
However, Sarah Miles did not study anywhere. At fifteen she left school and went to London, where she tried many far from art professions. She tried to do ballet, but then she chose to become a dramatic actress. According to her, this was the only area where her chances were not equal to zero. In fact, she attended classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but no one knows if she has completed the two-year course.
Shortly before the debut in the movie, Sarah Miles performed on stage in the play “A Dazzling Perspective” in the West End (a district in the center of London, where most of the famous theaters are concentrated). According to the actress, it was one of the last cases in the history of the West End, when the public didn’t throw rotten fruit onto the stage. Fortunately, in 1962, after the release of the “Term of trial”, critics excelled Sarah Miles, drawing brilliant prospects, waiting for a “new star.”
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Beautiful Eva Longoria – through hardship to the stars

Eva Longoria – through hardship to the stars
Until October 2004, only viewers of daily American television programs knew the name of Eva Longoria. But the first series of “Desperate Housewives” had a crazy rating – twenty million viewers watched it! Even the oldest employees of the ABC channel could not remember such a success. And the last series of the first season – already thirty million! In fact, “Housewives” caused a splash of fanaticism, and it even outshone “Sex and the City”. Appeared a computer game about the adventures of four housewives from Fairview town, burdened by children, husbands and family problems. Captured in comics, and even dolls appeared! Once, Oprah Winfrey appeared on the set: it turns out, she also adores Gaby, and Susan, and Lynette, and Bree!
Actresses’ fees, too, grew by leaps and bounds. If in the first season for the series Eva received thirty thousand, then in the second – already two hundred and fifty. When the conversation came about the seventh and eighth seasons, here the the girls demanded four hundred thousand per episode, and not less. Of course, they were condemned, but they didn’t care about public opinion.
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman. Beautiful French actress Danielle Darrieux (1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017)

Beautiful French actress Danielle Darrieux

Born in Bordeaux May 1, 1917 into the family of a military doctor, Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux grew up in Paris. Since childhood, fascinated by music, Daniel studied singing, playing the cello and piano at the Paris Conservatory. Unfortunately, her dream of a great musical career didn’t come true when at the eve of her concerts in the “Olympia” she suddenly lost her voice. By that time she had already acted in films and forbade herself to lose heart: “It’s terrible when ill health destroys all your plans. But only those who survive are able to switch immediately to something else. Everything will return, if you have not lost yourself for a single day.”
At the age of 14 she played her first film role in the musical film “Ball” (1931), and in 1935, after marrying director Henri Decuen, began to appear in every his film, mostly singing and dancing.
Destined to become not a violinist, but a film actress, Darrieux has appeared in more than sixty films. At first, they were mostly funny and very light-hearted comedies, but already in the movie “Green Domino” (1935), the actress gets the first dramatic role.
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Born 4 April 1941 in Berlin, one of the most beautiful in 1960s German cinema – actress Angelica Domrose

Popular in 1960s German actress Angelica Domrose
Once, in one of the newspapers of 1958, an announcement appeared: director Zlatan Dudov was looking for a young girl to play Zigi in the film “Confused Love.” Then, of the many contenders, the director chose a seventeen-year-old stenographer, Angelica Domrose. She was beautiful, charming, photogenic and most importantly, natural in any circumstances. Besides, she had a very rare feature – not to be timid in front of Jupiters in the pavilion and street gapers in full-scale shooting.
The first heroine of Domrose – a shabby girl with cute and mischievous habits – brought popularity to the beginning actress. But very few people at that time knew that a year before her film debut, she failed at the entrance exams to the Institute of Cinematography. And after the film “Confused Love” Angelica Domrose entered the institute in Babelsberg.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world”. Flower collages and quotes

Flower collages and quotes
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive. Brian Clough. French word collage means coller, to glue, it is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty. Here are collages of beautiful flowers contrasting in colors, or come harmonically in the shades of one color.
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One of ‘Gaba Girls’ on the Fifth Avenue, Life magazine, July 1937. Beauty icon for excentric designer Lester Gaba

Beauty icon for excentric designer Lester Gaba
Born in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1907, Lester Gaba was a talented designer, sculptor and window dresser. As a jewellery designer, Gaba worked for Albert Mfg. Co. which belonged to Albert Weiner. While working for this company, he designed a series of small rhinestone pave brooches called “Yankee Doodlers”. In 1939 Gaba designed for Albert Mfg. Co. a series called “Alice in Wonderland”, which was presented by Altman. Lester Gaba worked with Coro again in 1948 preparing a large presentation of Duettes.
Meanwhile, he started his career in the 1920s by making sculptures made of soap. These figures and miniatures were so impressive that they appeared in advertising campaigns. Also photographed for book covers and Christmas cards, exhibited in store windows and museums and even shown at the 1933-1934 Chicago World Fair. In the 1930s he started to create window-displayed mannequins, which at the time were heavy sculptures made of plaster.
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White lilies for Barb. 1940s Hollywood actress Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990)

1940s Hollywood brightest star actress Barbara Stanwyck
Born Ruby Catherine Stevens July 16, 1907, Barbara Stanwyck was a American movie star of 1920-30s, as well as model and dancer. Nominated four times for the Oscar in the category “Best Actress”, she became known as the best actress who never got an Oscar. Noteworthy, in 1944, Stanwyck was the highest paid actress in Hollywood, earning 400,000 dollars a year.
She acted in films up to 77 years old, and was always attractive and not lost on the background of the young. According to actor Robert Wagner, Barbara Stanwyck loved to work and emotionally needed to work. “She had been very poor as a child and young woman, so money meant security for her. Work always improved her mood. Whether it was a movie or TV show, it didn’t seem to make much difference to her, she just wanted to keep acting”. Robert Wagner, actor (Natalie Wood’s husband) and author of “I loved Her in movies: Memories of Hollywood Legendary Actresses”. 2017.
Actor’s career of Stanwyck evolved successfully both in the cinema and on television. For outstanding merits in cinematography, the actress received an Honorary Oscar in 1982. Also, awarded the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and and “Golden Globe”.
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Photo from magazine “Actors of foreign cinema”, 1974. Beautiful German actress Jutta Hoffmann (born March 3, 1941 in Halle der Saale)

Beautiful German actress Jutta Hoffmann
She was lucky: until now she had played only interesting, multifaceted roles. But to be more precise: she herself helped her happiness a little, gently, but persistently rejecting the uninteresting (or what she herself thought was so).
Jutta Hoffmann began her acting career in 1960, but became famous after her role in the film “Julia is alive” (Julia lebt) in 1963. Indeed, her gentle girl’s face with big eyes remained in memory. According to critics, she was an extremely sensitive creature – either a child, or a woman, surprisingly receptive, ready to respond. As the newspaper “Neues Deutschland” defined the nature of her talent, “This is something very beautiful and sublime”.
The same year, television offered her the first major role in “Wandering, searching”. It was the story of the hopeless love of the ironing handler Lene Nimpch and lieutenant of the cuirassier regiment Boto von Rinecker. This her role met a lot of criticism. And the opinion of the audience was somewhat ambiguous. First, the public had to get used to her peculiar, severe charm, as the canons of beauty of this thin woman were far from the generally accepted on the television screen.
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