“Indeed Ava was stunningly beautiful. Her simplicity and total lack…: chetvergvecher

“Indeed Ava was stunningly beautiful. Her simplicity and total lack of pretence only heightened this beauty. The Studio was well known for its assembly-line treatment used to produce a chain of look-alike dolls that conformed to the MGM aesthetic model. Ava had absolutely no need to be remade. She acquiesced to much of the procedure, but put her foot down when it came to plucking out her eyebrows and replacing them with a thin pencil line. Sydney Guilaroff, MGM’s master hairstylist, who later became Ava’s friend, recalled: “She had so much elegance and natural beauty that instinctively she resisted MGM’s elaborate makeup process, consenting only to a light coat of pancake. She applied her own lipstick and added a little mascara to her eyelashes, then powdered down. She rather liked a sheen on her face, a natural tone value, and I admired and encouraged her for that.” - from Ava’s bio by Gilles Dagneau Beautiful, Wild, Innocent

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Joseph Brodsky: Last Morning in the USSR, 1972.
Brodsky with the help of his American friends escaped for USA in 1972 and never returned back. It seemed that he never had regrets about that - at home he was subjected to repressions and was promised for more if he would not express emigrate. Twice he was put to mental institutions, charged with social parasitism in 1964 and sentenced and sentenced for that to 5 years (though he spent only 18 month of the term due to the protests of the prominent cultural workers)

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Romy Schneider

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Naomi Sims by Gosta Peterson for the New York Times, 1967

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Actress Ginger Rogers and her actor husband William Marshall reading by candlelight, June 1961. Photograph by Nina Leen. LIFE. Their marriage may have failed in part due to The Confession (1964), produced by Marshall and starring Rogers, which was not released until 1971 and was not a success. They divorced in 1971, after his bouts with alcohol, and the financial collapse of their joint film production company