Summertime

Old Hollywood Takes a Trip to the Beach

The glamorous guys and gals of Tinsletown took quite a few dips in the surf and sand—travel back to summer and beach days with them now.
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    Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart

    Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart visit Hawaii with their son, Stephen, in 1954.

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    Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufman

    Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufman explore the rocky beaches of Cannes, France in 1965.

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    Brigitte Bardot

    Brigitte Bardot poses in a classic 1950s one-piece suit in 1955.

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    Natalie Wood and Steve Rowland

    Natalie Wood and Steve Rowland apparently on their way to a game of Chicken at the Thalians Beach Ball in Malibu, 1956.

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    Ginger Rogers

    Ginger Rogers keeps her dancing shoes on as she rubs suntan lotion on her legs in 1936.

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    Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher

    Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor sit beachside circa 1960, just two short years after Fisher left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for Taylor—one of the most famous affairs in Hollywood history.

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    Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. find shade with a canine friend in 1929.

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    Kirk Douglas

    Old Hollywood heartthrob Kirk Douglas picks up paintress Novella Pairgini and actress Lilly Greco on the Lido Beach in Venice in 1953.

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    Ava Gardner

    Ava Gardner practices her balance in a high-waisted two-piece suit.

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    Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio

    Marilyn Monroe and husband Joe DiMaggio walk the beach hand-in-hand in Sarasota, Florida.

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    William Grant Sherry and Bette Davis

    Bette Davis and her third husband, William Grant Sherry, playfully pose near the Pacific Ocean in 1947.

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    Sophia Loren

    Sophia Loren gets ready to head to the water with a dinghy in Ostia, 1951.

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    Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth

    Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth get playful while applying suntan lotion at Port of Spain, Trinidad where they were filming Fire Down Below in 1957.

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    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn opts for all black as she takes a dip in the ocean, circa 1957.

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