Hollywood Legends Photos From The Golden Age Of Cinema

Hollywood is the home of the reputable American film industry, is rich with photos telling many stories. The composition of the pictures are outstanding, and the people in the photographs even more. These are iconic moments captured in imagery give the public what goes on behind the big screen.

Some of these photos can go from sweet to eerie to controversial. The best stories come from Hollywood legends photos. These icons are legends for a reason. The golden age churns out the best set of photos and the most riveting stories behind them.

A very famous snapshot is one with Marilyn Monroe while filming the The Seven Year Itch. Monroe with her co actor come out of the theater when a light breeze lifted her skirt, thus her covering up as to not expose too much skin. This is one moment that is still celebrated and parodied in modern pop culture, the red lipstick and the white dress included.

A picture of Audrey Hepburn on a sleeveless black dress from her torso up and her accessorized with a diamond tiara and necklace is a very renown portrait shot from the film Breakfast at Tiffanys. This has Hepburn with her left hand gripping a cigarette holder while leaning her face on her right hand. The photo is so famous pop art is created to reference the photo even now.

There is always an amazing relationship between subject and photographer. James Dean and Dennis Stock, for example. Stocks most famous picture of the young, rebellious actor is one with a cigarette in his mouth walking and hunched over trying to avoid the rain from getting on to his cigarette, probably. The photo is more famously called On Times Square.

Elizabeth Taylor, a renowned actresses posed for a photo with Rock Hudson for the 1956 film Giant. Hudson took the woman by the shoulders their faces so close, almost kissing. This film earned Hudson a nomination in the Academy Awards.

What is better than having a memorable photo with three legends in it? A photographer was lucky enough to capture Lauren Bacall with Humphrey Bogart sitting next to a Marilyn Monroe thoroughly enjoying herself. This was in a theater for the first screening of the movie How to Marry A millionaire.

A great dancer and singer, Fred Astaire is a huge icon in the world of musicals. His on screen chemistry was perfect with Ginger Rogers which proceeded to be his co star in ten musicals. A very known portrait has a handsome Astaire with his bow tie eyeing something skeptically on his right. This was taken from the the 1941 film You will Never Get Rich.

Photography and film are wonderful ways to travel back in time. The legends during the golden age of American cinema will forever live in the hearts of fans and remain as a cultural milestone for Hollywood. How marvelous it is to have iconic photographs to remember them by even beyond death.