During the filming of The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Sabu, June Duprez & Rex Ingram during the filming of The Thief of Bagdad (1940).

Check out Joan Blondell and Dick Powell on their honeymoon here

Nancy Kelly by Ray Jones (1940)

Nancy Kelly by Ray Jones (1940). Check her out in the amazing film “The Bad Seed” (1956, by Mervyn LeRoy). 
Check out Marilyn Monroe at Tobay Beach here

Rita Hayworth & Glen Ford on set of The Lady in Question

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford behind the scenes of The Lady in Question, 1940.
Check out Alexander Skarsgard for WSJ Magazine here

Behind the scenes of The Shop Around the Corner

Ernst Lubitsch with Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart on the set of The Shop Around the Corner (1940). 
Check out this behind the scenes photo of Murnau’s Faust. 

Ernst Lubitsch and James Stewart on set

James Stewart and director Ernst Lubitsch on the set of The Shop Around the Corner (1940). 
Check out Stanley Kubrick’s famous photos of Faye Emerson right here

Erich von Stroheim by Roger Corbeau

Erich von Stroheim by Roger Corbeau, ca. 1940. 
Check out Claudia Cardinale on a roof top in Rome here

Michele Morgan photographed by Ernest A. Bachrach

Michele Morgan photographed by Ernest A. Bachrach, 1940.
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Check out Bette Davis for Vogue Magazine in 1951 right here

Caption This!

Jimmy Stewart, Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis, 1940. Unknown photographer.
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Check out Bette Davis in this Jim Beam ad!

On set of “The Letter” (1940)

Bette Davis on the set of The Letter photographed by Bert Six, 1940.

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Check out Bela Tarr meeting Aamir Khan right here

Vivien Leigh & Olivia de Havilland.

Vivien Leigh & Olivia de Havilland, 1940 at their table during the 13th Annual Academy Awards, 1940.

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Check out Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier on set of “Romeo & Juliette” right here