Life Of the Rich And Famous by Slim aarons (1950s)

1950: Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. (Slim Aarons) via

1952: Guests at a cocktail party given by Mrs Gary Cooper (actress Veronica Cooper, aka Sandra Shaw) in Beverly Hills, California. She is on the left, seated on the couch with Mr Van Herbick and Jack Warner’s daughter. Lighting a cigarette on the right is Ginger Macrae. (Slim Aarons) via

31st December 1952: From left to right, Slim Hawks (nee Nancy Gross, former wife of director Howard Hawks) chatting with Vogue editor Diana Vreeland (1903 – 1989) and her husband Reed at Kitty Miller’s New Year’s Eve party in Park Avenue, New York. (Slim Aarons) via

1954: Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. (Slim Aarons) via

1954: Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx. (Slim Aarons) via

Circa 1955: Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show. (Slim Aarons) via

1955: Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her husband Prince Archil Gourielli Tchkonia, enjoying cocktails with friends on the terrace. (Slim Aarons) via

1955: Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terrace at the Ritz Hotel, Madrid. (Slim Aarons) via

1956: Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Ajax and Wacky on Park Avenue, New York, (Slim Aarons) via

1957: Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year’s party held at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills. (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) via

1958: Athina Livanos Onassis (Tina Onassis) the first wife of Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis relaxing by the swimming pool aboard their yacht, the ‘Christina’ in Monte Carlo.(Photo by Slim Aarons) via

1959: Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida (Slim Aarons) via

Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy as a Young Couple by Orlando Suero (1954)

In January 1954, the handsome junior senator from Massachusetts and his glamorous wife moved into a three-story townhouse at 3321 Dent Place in Georgetown. Although they would live here for only five months, the house was their first home after their wedding— the society event of the decade—and a place from which they could begin to prepare for the next step in their lives, one that would take John and Jacqueline Kennedy to the White House.

In May of that year, Orlando Suero, a photographer with the Three Lions Picture Agency on his first major assignment, spent five days with the Kennedys. In more than twenty photo sessions, Suero documented a typical week in the young couple’s life. He enjoyed their full cooperation and the intimate access that would later, as Jacqueline became more anxious about her family’s privacy, be denied to all but a few.

Suero’s photographs capture the idyllic quality of the young couple’s lives during their months in Georgetown. Not yet hounded by the media, John and Jacqueline in these images seem happier and more at ease than they would ever be again (source).

Jacqueline Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy by Orlando Suero, 1954 via

Glamorous Photos by Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990)

Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer, who  became a notable society photographer in Vienna in the 1920s.

With the Anschluss in 1938, Fleischmann was forced to leave the country. She moved first to Paris, then to London and finally, together with her former studient and companion Helen Post, in April 1939 to New York. In 1940, she opened a studio on West 56th Street next to Carnegie Hall which she ran with Frank Elmer who had also emigrated from Vienna.

In addition to scenes of New York City, she photographed celebrities and notable immigrants including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oskar Kokoschka, Lotte Lehmann, Otto von Habsburg, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and Arturo Toscanini. 

She also worked as a fashion photographer, contributing to magazines such as Vogue. She established a close friendship with the photographer Lisette Model.

Trude Fleischmann
Hedy Pfundmayr mit Fledermauskopfputz, um 1925
signiert: „Es gibt nichts Besseres als Pessl’s Schönheitscreme“
Silbergelatineabzug, 22,6 x 14,5 cm
© Photoinstitut Bonartes via

The dancer Tilly Losch by Trude Fleischmann via

 Ernst Mafray (dancer, choreographer, actor and director, seated)
Kata Sterna (actress and dancer) by Trude Fleischmann via

Trude Fleischmann, Study with glass sphere, Vienna 1923 via