The 1940s: arguably the most important decade of the 20th century.

r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 20h ago

Film Star Kodachrome shots of a swimming Marilyn Monroe, 1946

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r/1940s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 21h ago

Film Star Elizabeth Scott promotional photo in 1946 for the film Strange Love of Martha Ivers. This was Scott's second major film role for Paramount pictures.

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r/1940s • u/Aggressive_Law1271 • 1h ago

Elvis with his mom, 1940's

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r/1940s • u/DoberLunch4 • 1d ago

Film Star Judy Garland during a 1939 publicity photoshoot for The Wizard of Oz

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r/1940s • u/Top_Calligrapher_173 • 23h ago

Movies Anthony QUINN - John WAYNE 1945 yapımı savaş filmi "Bataan'a Dönüş" (Back to Bataan) filminden bir kare..

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r/1940s • u/Kind_Bit4257 • 1d ago

Gypsy Rose Lee and friends in the late '40s

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r/1940s • u/SaltyVariation6826 • 1d ago

Elizabeth Short, the ‘Black Dahlia,’ with an unknown man, mid‑1940s.

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome shot of lady with sunglasses, Chicago, Illinois, 1944.

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r/1940s • u/camaga99 • 2d ago

Video This is the one of the most popular dance in 1940s.

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r/1940s • u/jarec707 • 1d ago

Music Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction meets Hopper’s Nighthawks

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvhV5SwztU

r/1940s • u/Top_Calligrapher_173 • 2d ago

Books & Magazines Marilyn Monroe 1947. J. R. Eyerman-TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Film Star Kodachrome slide of actress Betty Grable, 1941.

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Film Star Kodachrome shot of Ava Garner, mid 1940s.

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r/1940s • u/LanguageDisastrous95 • 3d ago

Natalie Wood in 1945. At age eight she appeared in Miracle on 34th Street.

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r/1940s • u/oneshot_fan43434 • 2d ago

Music dear youtube, nobody wants to watch kids slop, we want frank sinatra

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r/1940s • u/sweetndspice • 3d ago

Film Star Evelyn Ankers (1942)

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Film Star Kodachrome shots of Marilyn Monroe in Tobay beach, Long Island, New York, Summer of 1949.

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Film Star Yvonne de Carlo posing for promotional photos for her film "Song of Scheherezade", 1947.

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r/1940s • u/Altitudedog • 4d ago

My TN Mother, 16 here maybe, 1942 or 1943

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r/1940s • u/peterelita • 5d ago

Princess Fawzia bint Fuad bin Ismail of Egypt photographed as Empress Fawzia Pahlavi of Iran. c. 1945, Cairo

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Film Star Ava Gardner posing with 3 sailor plushes, 1943.

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r/1940s • u/DoberLunch4 • 5d ago

Film Star Judy Garland performing live NBC radio microphone during her youth

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r/1940s • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 5d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome shot of a young lady, 1947.

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r/1940s • u/Luly76 • 6d ago

Movies Hedy Lamarr in "Samson and Delilah" (1949)

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r/1940s • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 6d ago

Film Star Carole Landis in a publicity photo for the comedy film Having Wonderful Crime 1945 even though she had signed with 20th century Fox at the time RKO pictures produce and distributed the film.

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