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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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Barbra Streisand breaking beauty stereotypes

Barbra Streisand breaking beauty stereotypes
As the Paris fashion magazines regularly supply the world with new clothes, Hollywood has for many years offered the viewer various versions of movie stars. The enigmatic Greta Garbo, the victorious Marlene Dietrich, the charming Dina Durbin, the seductive Elizabeth Taylor, the exquisite Audrey Hepburn, attracting Marilyn Monroe, and the determined Jane Fonda …
However, the suicide of Monroe in 1962 seemed to violate something in the orderliness and methodicity with which the Hollywood conveyor “threw out” the newly-made idols of the crowd. Only in 1968, after a six-year break, the public was offered another star named Barbra Streisand.
Considering her on the big plans in the film “Funny Girl”, the American spectator was discouraged: the star turned out to be ugly. Yes, defiantly ugly! This has not happened yet. Other movie heroines, however, fell into funny situations and seemed funny, but at the same time they were very attractive and pretty. And Barbra Streisand impressed not only the simple-hearted public, but also the sophisticated criticism with her incoherent figure and asymmetrical face. Magazines Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, competing in wit, ridiculed her “crooked legs”, “slanting eyes looking at each other”, and, most importantly, “long nose”, which, according to one journalist, “starts from the roots of her hair and ends at a trombone in an orchestra.”
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Photographed in 1966, Beauty icon Swedish actress Camilla Sparv

Beauty icon Swedish actress Camilla Sparv
It’s no exaggeration to say that Camilla Sparv is one of the most charming women ever living on planet Earth. Absolutely untypical for Hollywood movies (and movies in general), Camilla is the embodiment of exceptional femininity, a deep spiritual world and intellect peeping through the close material frames of her cinematic heroines.
The charm and femininity of Camilla are so invincible that it seems like she is a creature from another Galaxy, probably the Andromeda Nebula, accidentally visited our Milky Way. And to our great happiness, we can admire her beauty transferred to film. Undoubtedly, Camilla Sparv – absolutely incredible phenomenon in the world of cinema. The same as Audrey Hepburn. However, unlike Audrey Hepburn, Camilla was much less fortunate in the movies. And this is the great fault of myopic producers and directors, who indifferently passed by magic …
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Post-war cinema star, beautiful Czech film actress Jana Brejchova

Beautiful Czech film actress Jana Brejchova
Born 20 January 1940 in Prague, Jana Brejchova is one of the biggest stars of post-war cinema who played in about 70 films. Married three times. First, to the director Milos Forman (1958-1962), then actor Vlastimil Brodsky (1964-1980) and then, German director Ulrich Thein. Awarded a medal for merit of the II degree (2004) and the Czech Lion prize (2010) by the Czech Film Academy for her many years of contribution to the development of cinematography.
According to Brejchova, she became a movie actress quite accidentally, in 1953, at the age of thirteen. However, not for long, and just for one movie. One day a young man came to the school where she studied, Ladislav Helge (now a well-known Czech film director). He was looking for a girl for the film “Leaded Bread” by Jiri Sequens, and his choice fell on Jana.
In 1954, the released film surprised everyone, and in particular, the role of Pidyalka, a poor girl from the suburbs of old Prague. Jana Brejchova, a lanky teenager with lean, ridiculous pigtails played the role with enviable skill, showing her clearly talent.
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Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor. Free of parental curses Magda Davitt

Free of parental curses Magda Davitt
“I am in danger. I need a doctor, a psychiatrist. Immediately. Right now. Someone, answer me! I feel very, very bad. I’m really sick. I need the right medicine. I’m ready to go to Dublin from my Bray, without changing clothes. I, in fact know, that in my small town there are absolutely no doctors, capable to render the qualified help. Help, I ask you … “- this is what Sinead O’Connor wrote on Twitter on January 10, 2012. A quick response did not follow.
But once her name was on the list of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Admirers called her face an outstanding work of nature, and her voice – the voice of an angel.
And although Sinead became rich and famous, she gave birth to four children from different men, she did not get true happiness.
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Beautiful American actress, Oscar winner, Desperate Housewife Mira Sorvino

Desperate Housewife Mira Sorvino
The whole life of the famous actress, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, the continuer of the acting dynasty of Paul Sorvino, the favorite of Woody Allen and Guillermo Del Toro, reduced to vegetable mixes, pies and diapers. Previously, the stories of her high-profile romances with the most interesting men of Hollywood appeared in fashion magazines. And now Desperate Housewife Mira Sorvino appears exclusively in the rubric “Home and Family”.
Mira, witty, mocking, independent girl used to break rules and challenge gender stereotypes in modern society, one by one gave birth to four. But she once studied at Harvard and specialized in the problems of “penetration of African cultural influence in China.” She mastered Chinese day and night, and everyone knows what a complicated language it is. But now in her head Mira has a book of useful recipes instead of Chinese words.
Studying at Harvard University, Mira Sorvino dreamed of a serious professorial career. And it was Mira Sorvino who in mid-1988, as one of the most promising female students, was sent for an internship in China. For eight months she collected material for scientific work and was simply fascinated by Beijing and her new friends – Chinese students.
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Beautiful Polish actress Lucyna Winnicka (14 July 1928 – 22 January 2013)

Beautiful Polish actress Lucyna Winnicka
Born July 14, 1928 in Warsaw, Polish actress Lucyna Winnicka was the wife of the director Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and became known mainly through his films.
Lucyna Winnicka graduated from high school in the year of the end of the war. After six years of horrors, deaths and pain in the destroyed Warsaw, life began again. Lucyna entered the university, the Faculty of Law. Why Law? Like many graduates, she herself did not know why. Somewhere you had to do something, but the real calling was determined much later. So, in 1950, Lucyna received a master’s degree in law and … realized that trying to prove herself in the law does not make sense. By this time she was already a student of the Higher School of Theater.
Three years later, a young actress began to work in Stettin. She successfully performed in plays “Their Four”, “To the South of the 38th Parallel”, “Big Man with Small Interests”. And soon there was a film debut. Jerzy Kawalerowicz was directing a big two-part film “Cellulose” on the novel of the Polish writer Igor Neverly. In the second part, entitled “Under the Phrygian Star”, next to the protagonist appeared the Communist girl Magda, his future wife. Grace, tenderness, sparkling laughter of Winnicka added “forbidden” poetry to the realistically harsh style of the work on the class struggle. Then more than once wrote that the role of Magda – the most interesting post-war actor’s work in Poland. Lucyna Winnicka already in the first film proved to be a mature master.
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