Rare photo collection of film icons from the golden days of Hollywood

I have to give a shout out to a my new favorite Facebook Group called Decaying Hollywood Mansions where I found these rare photos of some iconic Hollywood talent and beauty.

Check these out these rare photos below:

Fred Astaire using his svelte to tame cats

    

Greta Garbo.  Glorious and make-free.

   

 James Dean in his hometown with his first cousin

Dean and cousin in hometown shooting hoops in barn.

James Dean's timeless iconic beauty

Rock Hudson and James Dean messing about
on film set of Giant, 

James Dean pretending to punch Rock Hudson in his man junk.

I'm guessing this photo never 
made it into Look Magazine at the  time.

Marlon Brando lost in a book.

Or showing us he is.

Jimmy Stewart in some very disco-y ice skating attire.

Robert Mitchum.  Gorgous and 100% guy.

Revealing look at Jane and Henry Fonda

Note the father/daughter body language.

Elizabeth Taylor looking particularly beautiful and real.
There's something fragile in this photo.

  

Aerial photo of early Disneyland:

Orange County still filled with green fields.

Audrey Hepburn always a lady.

Truman Capote.  Amazing writer: 
A poet even with non-fiction.  

So talented and gorgeous. Well, for a while he was.

    

(Naughty) Shirley Temple in politically incorrect film.
Somebody leave a comment below as to what film this was from.

    

Natalie Wood letting her personality shine through.

A young, baby-faced Orson Welles

Garbo:  Sans artifice, or pretense:  Lovely and open and real

Satchmo and Dietrich: Must've been quite a party.

If this is also from a film, someone tell me the title.

Veronica Lake:  Never more beautiful and voluptuous
than she is in this photo: Iconic beauty of Film Noir.

    Veronica Lake in her later years, visiting LA.
Spent her later years in Vermont where, sadly, she lost a battle with alcoholism.

Wonder what her thoughts were while back in Hollywood, here.
I hope she had good people in her life.

Marlene Dietrich: "The Song of Songs."
*Look how real that statue looks. Bizarre.

Mia Farrow.  This "waif" dated many industry heavy hitters:

Woody Allen, Andre Previn, Frank Sinatra.

   

Jacqueline Bisset:  Classic example of film beauty
for a newer Hollywood of the 70's and 80's

   

Charlotte Rampling, another screen beauty

from Georgie Girl to this day.  A film beauty and a survivor.  
    

Elizabeth Montgomery: Brave actress: Both on screen and off

   

 Vivien Leigh: May be the ultimate classic film beauty and talent.
Tragically lost her battle with depression and alcohol.
Married to Lawrence Olivier.  Which could not have helped, either.

 Publicity still for Bell Book and Candle
The haunting film beauty, Kim Novak with a much older Jimmy Stewart

Jean Harlow capturing the attention of the boys.
As usual.

    

Gable and Harlow.  Acting?  Hmm.  Have to wonder.
This embrace looks more like method acting, to me.
Steamy.

Tippi Hedren getting a light from a talented crow on set of The Birds

Apparently, Hitchcock tortured her with real birds on the set.
Nice of him, no?

Jane Fonda and Alain Delon: Youth and beauty in France

Carol Lombard

Marilyn Monroe

Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, 
Marlene Dietrich, and Richard Barthelmess.
at Carol Lombard’s famous party she threw
on the Venice pier in June 1935.
Apparently, it made Hollywood history books:
She was MY kind of girl.

Rare Hollywood photos featuring the iconic beauty of Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Farbo, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor, aerial shot of early Disneyland in a green Orange County, Ca., Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Shirley Temple, Natalie Wood, Orson Welles, Veronica Lake, Mia Farrow, Jacqueline Bisset, Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth Montgomery, Vivien Keigh, Kim Novak, Jean Harlow, Tippi Hedren, The Birds, Alain Delon, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard…and more...