Remembering Anne Bancroft on her birthday

September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005
And how she met Mel Brooks

Oh to have seen Alan Rickman as Valmont.

'It was as if she had diamonds in her bones...' Dolores del Rio about Greta Garbo #botd . Portrait by Ruth Harriet Louise, 1927.

Lillian Roth #ClassicGirlOfTheWeek #LillianRoth

#botd Rossano Brazzi. Me and Jean Arthur feeling the swoon.

#botd Rossano Brazzi, photographed in 1962.

'I am honoured to be a patron for this wonderful charity Helping Rhinos 🦏 pls join us Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on Sept 30th OrangePlanetPictures ‘Orphan rhinos taken to secret location after cruel slaughter of mothers' mirror.co.uk/news/world-new…

Happiest birthday to the inimitable Greta “Kata” Lovisa Gustafsson aka Greta Garbo. She was born on this day at the Södra Maternity Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden (1905) #botd

Photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Plaza Hotel in New York, 1946.

Hank Williams was born on this day, 100 years ago, in Butler County Alabama

Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden during a party held at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, 1951

Photo by Murray Garrett

Good morning with art by Jean Dunand, Portrait of Madame Agnès, 1926!

“Elegantly dressed, curled in the corner of a sofa, talking in a soft voice, laughing in her throat, utterly direct and sensible, this is the last thing that Anne Bancroft looked.” - Michael Wall on the incomparable AB, #botd in 1931. My best gal.

📸 by Pierre Venant, c. 1970.

Clip from a Russian version of 'The Little Mermaid' 1967

Carole Lombard by George Hurrell in a publicity shot for MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939).

Gloria Swanson, 1948.

Lillian Roth with Susan Hayward on the set of I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955). #ClassicGirlOfTheWeek #LillianRoth