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Shirley Temple: America’s Greatest Child Movie Star

August 11, 2021February 11, 2014 by

Shirley Temple Black—known to millions as simply Shirley Temple, who acted in scores of movies and was arguably the greatest child movie star of all time—was a constant presence on the silver screen during the Great Depression, lighting up movies like Stand Up and Cheer! and Bright Eyes with her singing, dancing and her sharp (but never cloying) wit. She retired from the movies when she was just 21, in 1950, and continued with her remarkable life, shifting into the world of international politics. She held a number of diplomatic posts during her lifetime, including U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia during that country’s convulsive years in the late 1980s.

After her death, Temple Black’s family paid tribute to her in a statement that read, in part, “We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.

Shirley Temple arrived at the 20th Century Fox studio to celebrate her eighth birthday, 1936.

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Shirley Temple celebrated her eighth birthday at 20th Century Fox in 1936, when, in the middle of the Great Depression, she was the biggest box office star in America.

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Shirley Temple celebrated her eighth birthday, 1936.

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Shirley Temple, 1936.

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Shirley Temple took pictures of famous sites in Washington, DC, from the window of a car, 1938.

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Shirley Temple at the Lincoln Memorial, 1938.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover showed Shirley Temple how to ride a mechanical horse, 1938.

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Shirley Temple, photographed as she was leaving the White House, 1938.

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Shirley Temple walked on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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Shirley Temple walked down stairs at the Bel Air Country Club at her 11th birthday party, 1939.

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Shirley Temple with Sgt. John Agar, to whom she was married from 1945-1950.

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A Breed Apart: Portraits of Yorkshire Terriers

November 4, 2020February 9, 2014 by

In November 1964, LIFE magazine noted that “a small dog with a sweeping hairdo and a peppery disposition” was pushing the poodle aside as the elegant canine accessory-of-the-moment. LIFE also noted that the small, dynamic Yorkie — for it was none other than the Yorkshire Terrier to which the magazine devoted a multi-page feature — “is no lap dog. It has the dash and spirit of all terriers and is a better ratter than most cats.”

The image of a fearless rat-killer is hardly the first that comes to mind, of course, when one thinks of the Yorkie — and the Nina Leen photos in that LIFE feature focused on the breed’s cute, lively nature rather than its innate (if rarely exercised) ferocity. But the point was clear: while small in stature, the Yorkie has huge appeal.

Here, LIFE presents some of Leen’s pictures from 50 years ago — photos celebrating a rare and singularly winning breed.

Liz Ronk edited this gallery. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.

Yorkshire Terriers

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Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army

January 2, 2020February 8, 2014 by

It’s intriguing to imagine contemporary American music stars serving in the military. How would Kanye West fare in the Air Force? Would Adam Levine cut it in the Army? But when a young man who was, at the time, the biggest musical star on the planet was drafted into the United States Army back in 1958, the uniform seemed to fit. Sure, Elvis Aron Presley often affected a sneer that would drive most drill sergeants to near-apoplexy, and his pompadour was hardly the sort of hairstyle one associated with military discipline. But Elvis, born in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised in Tennessee, had humble Southern roots that may have allowed for a more seamless transition from pop-culture icon to buck private.

Whatever the reason, for a couple of years, Elvis Presley looked like he belonged in a uniform and by all accounts, his brothers in arms saw what he was made of, and accepted him as one of them. It was impossible, of course, for anyone to pretend that Elvis was just another soldier; but he worked hard to fit in and to do what was asked of him, and after two years, when Sgt. Presley was honorably discharged, it was evident that the boy from Tupelo had grown up.

It was also evident, that Elvis was hardly heartbroken about leaving the military. His two years serving in Germany had shown the world, and had shown Elvis himself, that he could handle something more than a guitar, and could perform tasks that didn’t involve gyrating in front of screaming bobbysoxers. In 1960, it was time to get back to doing what he did best: it was time to leave Sgt. Presley behind, and be Elvis again.

Here, LIFE.com presents a series of photos—most of which never ran in LIFE magazine—showing Elvis, along with his 15-year-old girlfriend, Priscilla Beaulieu, in Germany on the day he left to return to the States (March 2, 1960), and Elvis again at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he landed on March 3, sans Priscilla. He was officially discharged from the Army on March 5. These pictures, by LIFE photographers James Whitmore and Al Fenn, capture a moment in Elvis’s life when he was poised to remind everyone who may have doubted it that, despite two years of taking orders, he was ready to again be the King.

A few weeks later, in its March 14, 1960, issue, LIFE put it this way to its millions of readers:

“In a spectacular shift of power that critically exposed the flank of U.S. music lovers, the Army returned US53310761 from Germany last week for mustering out at Fort Dix, N.J. Fans mobilized to fighting strength and tuned up their shrieks . . . Elvis was back.
After his two year hitch, rock and roll idol Elvis Presley wore a sergeant’s chevrons but no sideburns. “If I say the Army made a man of me,” he said, “it would give the impression I was an idiot before I was drafted. I wasn’t exactly that.”
Elvis was, in fact, a smart soldier. His agents back home had been pretty smart, too, selling 20 million RCA Victor records to the jukebox set. These earned “The Pelvis” $1.3 million in addition to his $145.24 a month service pay. Elvis paid the U.D. 91% of the total in taxes, or enough to support about 150 of his fellow soldiers for a year.
Behind him at Ray Barracks near Friedberg, Elvis had left hordes of palpitating Fräuleins and the pretty 16-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, daughter of an Air Force captain stationed at Wiesbaden. Elvis kissed her before he flew to the aid of the girls back home, sorrowful at parting but anxious to get into his bright-colored pants and back to his hip-swinging singing.”

Sgt. Elvis Presley prepared to leave Germany, March 1960.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley held a press conference before leaving Germany, March 1960.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley prepared to leave Germany, March 1960.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley peered out of the window of the house he and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley left the house he and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley’s grandmother and Priscilla Beaulieu left the house that Elvis and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960

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Sgt. Elvis Presley left the house he and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Priscilla Beaulieu rode in the back seat with Elvis as German fans crowded around the car.”

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Elvis and Priscilla left the house he and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Elvis and Priscilla left the house he and his family occupied in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley prepared to leave Germany, March 1960.

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Priscilla Beaulieu, Germany, March 1960.

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Priscilla Beaulieu waved to Elvis as the plane took off from Germany for the U.S.

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Sgt. Elvis Presley prepared to leave Germany, March 1960.

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Priscilla Beaulieu, Germany, March 1960.

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Priscilla Beaulieu was escorted from the tarmac after saying goodbye to Elvis, Germany, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans congregated at the house in which Elvis and his family lived, shortly after he left the house for the last time, Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fan, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley arrived at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley arrived at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley arrived at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fan, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fan, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fans, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley fan, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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lvis Presley at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley (and, at right, actress Tina Louise) at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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Elvis Presley at Fort Dix, New Jersey, shortly before his discharge from the U.S. Army, March 1960.

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‘I Was in LIFE’: Rita Moreno Remembers

December 15, 2021February 7, 2014 by

Rita Moreno, who turned 90 on December 11, 2021, is a member of one of the entertainment world’s most exclusive clubs: she’s one of only 16 performers in history to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony—the famous “EGOT” awards superfecta. In 2015 she was honored at the Kennedy Center, and in 2019 she was given a Peabody Award for her career of achievement.

LIFE was a fan of Rita Moreno before she had won a single one of those awards. She appeared on the cover of the magazine on March 1, 1954, issue as a vivacious, bare-shouldered 22-year-old, gazing at the viewer in what might well be the most playfully sexy portrait ever to appear on the cover of LIFE.

In a recent interview Moreno, said that the way she made it on to that cover, and not the picture itself, that stirred her remarkably sharp memory.

“Do you know how I got on the cover in the first place?” she asks. “Oh, it was such a wacky thing. I Love Lucy was enormously popular at the time, sitcoms were just taking hold on television, and the Desilu people decided to go into production with some other shows including one starring Ray Bolger [best-known today as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz]. It turned out that he just wasn’t right for the medium, and the show didn’t get off the ground, but during rehearsals I happened to be on set one day when a LIFE photographer showed up to chronicle the action. Well, the pictures made it back to the editors at LIFE and, the way I heard it, someone saw me in one of the shots and said, ‘Who’s that girl?'”

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“Next thing I know, LIFE calls me up about a photo shoot. The idea behind Loomis Dean’s pictures showing me in all sorts of silly poses, pretending to act out this huge gamut of emotions was ridiculous, but the photos were lovely. And I was happy to be in LIFE.” She pauses. “Oh, who am I kidding? I was fucking thrilled.

“The writer assigned to the piece, who was there during the shoot, told me that the magazine wanted a picture for the cover. I could not believe it. Twenty-two years old, and I was going to be on the cover of LIFE! But then he says, ‘I have to warn you—if Eisenhower gets a cold, you’ll get bumped.'”

At this, Moreno lets out a full, hugely contagious laugh.

As excited and proud as she was about her LIFE cover—”I was running all over, buying copies and giving them to friends, beside myself with happiness,” she says—Moreno recalls that, to her surprise, it didn’t immediately translate into significantly more work, or better, more nuanced roles. “Maybe because I was a Latina,” she says. “Who knows?”

But she also remembers that Daryl Zanuck, the legendary Hollywood producer and studio head, reportedly saw the cover and said, “Get me that girl. Can she speak English?”

“Who says that sort of thing?” the Puerto Rico-born Moreno asks, with a bemused but far from bitter chuckle.

Moreno offers one further insight into how “delicious” (her word) it was for a young actress to suddenly see her own face on the cover of arguably the most influential magazine on the planet at the time. Chuckling at the memory, she says that she “would walk into stores with a copy of the magazine, carrying it so you could see the cover, or laying it down on the counter face up, of course while I looked at a scarf or something. Oh, it was so wonderful.” And then she laughs, even louder this time.

Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.

I Was in LIFE: Rita Moreno Remembers

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I Was in LIFE: Rita Moreno Remembers

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The First Fashions of Post-Liberation Paris, 1944

January 14, 2022February 7, 2014 by

By the fall of 1944, not long after the Allies had routed German forces from Paris and while the post-Normandy push eastward toward Berlin rolled on, it was clear to anyone and everyone that the end of the Second World War in Europe, at least was truly, finally in sight.

LIFE’s Bob Landry, who had covered the war in North Africa as well as in other parts of Europe, was in Paris when it was liberated in late August, and he stayed on to report on and photograph stories in the giddy, post-liberation capital, including which included new fashions. The emergence of these fashions illustrated both the centrality of style to the Gallic way of life, and the deprivations that designers and their customers were forced to endure at a time when, after all, the continent was still at war.

LIFE never ran the pictures that Landry made of the French fall fashions, but some of them did end up in the Oct. 16, 1944, issue of TIME. Here’s what the newsweekly had to say about those fashion shows in the fall of ’44:

The Germans had not yet been driven out of France. Dunkirk had not yet fallen. The Gaullist government had not yet been recognized. But an old Parisian institution (and big Parisian business) returned to liberated France. Liberation fashions were barely a month old, but the season of style shows was on.
The spectators were almost as arresting as the mannequins. One Parisienne wore black lace bobby socks with matching lace earrings. Others in towering electric blue or mustard yellow hats racked bicycles in the marble lobby of Maggy Rouff’s salon.
All last week famous couturiers displayed their 1944 creations. Most of the familiar names were back: Bruyere, Alix, Molyneux . . . The trend was pronounced: skirts full and short, waists small, shoulders wide, sleeves mutton-legged. Designers used material lavishly, too lavishly for U.S. and British women limited by regulations and rationing.
Sales were disappointing . . . [but] another damper was the lack of good fur and real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said [one correspondent]: “If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool, the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear.”

Here, we take a look back at that heady time and at the remarkable styles that emerged from the international capital of fashion in the midst of a world war.

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.

Paris fashion, 1944.

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Mia Farrow, 1967: Classic Photos of an Actress on the Rise

January 9, 2023February 6, 2014 by

Mia Farrow was 22 years old when LIFE magazine ran a seven-page cover story on the actress in May 1967. She was married to Frank Sinatra (he was 30 years her senior, and the marriage lasted less than two years) and at the time was best-known for her work on TV: she was a regular on the classic prime-time soap opera, Peyton Place. But LIFE’s decision to feature the young Los Angeles native proved prescient; within a year she was receiving raves for performances in several prominent films—including the Roman Polanski horror classic, Rosemary’s Baby.

She would go on to a decades-long career as an award-winning actress and an outspoken, fearless campaigner for human rights. Beyond her acting, Ms. Farrow has been a recurring figure in the news because of accusations by her adopted daughter, Dylan, that Woody Allen sexually abused her when she was a child, at a time when Allen and Ms. Farrow were in a long-term relationship. Woody Allen has always denied the charges, while Ms. Farrow has never wavered in her support of Dylan’s claims. Ms. Farrow is also the mother of Ronan Farrow, a journalist whose investigative reporting has been a driver of the #MeToo movement.

In that cover story from 1967, though, the photos are notably light, as Farrow freely clowned for the camera in many shots, and the focus of the story was on her youth, beauty, talent and mystery. As LIFE wrote:

There are these positive statements you can make about Mia Farrow: she is 22; she weighs 99 pounds; she is 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall; she has less hair than Ringo Starr; she is annoyed that people in London mistake her for Twiggy; she is married to Frank Sinatra.

Beyond such unarguable specifics lies her shapeless world — a place of surmise so fascinatingly complex and maddeningly naive that Sinatra could fathom it only by marrying into it. And ever since the surprising match was made the public has been stuck on the nagging question, “What is Mia Farrow really like?”

The feature goes on to paint a picture of a whip-smart, self-deprecatingly funny daughter of Hollywood (her mother was the famous actress Maureen O’Sullivan, her dad was Oscar-winning writer and director John Farrow)—a woman barely out of her teens yet worldly enough to say of her superstar husband, Sinatra: “He’s an artist. He’s groovy, he’s kinky and—above all—he’s gentle.”

Here, LIFE.com features a series of photographs—most of them never published in LIFE—that feel, in more ways than we can count, as if they were made not only in another time, but in another world.

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.

Mia Farrow on the set of the film, A Dandy in Aspic, London, 1967.

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On a lark in London, Farrow borrowed a construction lantern.

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Farrow looked at off-beat antiques while searching for a gift for her husband, Frank Sinatra. She ended up buying him a $2,240 gazebo.

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Mia Farrow in London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and A Dandy in Aspic co-star Laurence Harvey, London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow in London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and A Dandy in Aspic co-star Laurence Harvey, London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, Laurence Harvey and A Dandy in Aspic director Anthony Mann, 1967.

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Mia Farrow mocked A Dandy in Aspic co-star Laurence Harvey for his long hair and the length of time he spent with make-up, when all she did was dab her own eyes.

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Between scenes of A Dandy in Aspic, Mia wrestled with co-star Laurence Harvey

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Mia Farrow and director Anthony Mann, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Farrow told director Anthony Mann, ‘I don’t want to be me on screen.’ Mann said of Farrow, ‘She’s marvelous—my main problem is not to change her an inch.”

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Mia Farrow with co-stars on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Mia Farrow on set, 1967.

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Mia Farrow on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey on the set of A Dandy in Aspic, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey (left), 1967.

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, London, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, 1967.

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Mia Farrow in Geneva, 1967.

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On Swiss estate of her friend Yul Brynner, Mia romped with his five-year-old daughter, Victoria.

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Mia Farrow and Yul Brynner’s daughter, Victoria, Switzerland, 1967.

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Mia Farrow, Switzerland, 1967.

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Mia Farrow on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, 1967.

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Mia Farrow and Laurence Harvey, 1967.

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Mia Farrow at home in London, 1967.

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At the Sinatras’ Grosvenor Square residence in London (other addresses: Paris, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Las Vegas), Mia Farrow wore Cardin original before the gala premiere of ‘Taming of the Shrew.’

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