Ginger Rogers, 1936, a promo shot for Follow the Fleet by John Miehle
Showgirls at the Copacabana Club, New York City, photo by Stanley Kubrick, 1948
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
Mae West in I’m No Angel (Wesley Ruggles, 1933)
“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.”
Model Patricia Tuckwell (later Patricia, Countess of Harewood), photographed by Athol Shmith, Melbourne, 1953