Photo Essays
Bikinis, Bunny Ears and Cowboy Boots: LIFE With Hollywood Pinups
Hollywood has never been shy about using sex to sell its movies, or its movie stars. In fact, in all its guises — from the kiss that inevitably ends a hokey...
Barbara Walters: A Career in Pictures
It seems almost inconceivable to imagine Barbara Walters not being on television. This is a woman, after all, who entered the business (as a segment producer on...
LIFE With Rock Stars … and Their Parents
They had fame, reams of money and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in its September 24, 1971 issue, LIFE magazine...
LIFE With Michael Caine: Rare Photos From 1966
In October 1966, in a lengthy profile of a young English actor on the rise, LIFE magazine took a stab at describing what would in time be recognized not only as...
Top 10 Post-Oscar Busts
You've won an Oscar! Now what? For these 10 Academy Award winners ... nothing. A look at the worst post-Oscar careers in movie history
The Best Oscar Dresses
No low-key Oscars for these glamorous actresses. Despite rumors that this year's ceremony would be toned down, the red-carpet regulars turned up the fashion...
An Evening of Star-Gazing: Photos of Celebrities Walking the Oscars Red Carpet
On the movie industry’s biggest night, all the stops are pulled out at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre as the year’s best films are honored with golden statuettes. ...
LIFE With Natalie Wood: Photos of the Superstar in 1963
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko in San Francisco at the height of the Great Depression, Natalie Wood (“Natasha” to close friends) was one of those rare stars...
LIFE With Jack Nicholson: Early Photos of an Actor on the Brink
As difficult as it might be to fathom today — when the man known to all the world as “Jack” has journeyed from respected actor to movie star to superstar to...
From Sir, With Love: 29 Photos of Michael Caine Looking at You
Here’s looking at you, Sir Michael Caine. Well, no, actually, here’s you looking at us. The Oscar-winning actor — who’s played a diverse range of characters,...
And the Oscar Fashion Winners Are ...
TIME's Belinda Luscombe rates the best and worst of the gowns at the 2010 Academy Awards
Oscar Fashion: The 9 Best Women over 40
Women over 40 deserve an extra round of applause on Oscar night. The older you get, the harder it is to fit into Hollywood's unrealistic beauty paradigm. So...
Oscar de la Renta: Dressing First Families
Hillary Clinton wears a de la Renta gown to Chelsea's wedding, the latest in a string of his outfits to show up at high profile First Family events. Here's a...
Sophia Loren: Rare and Classic Portraits
Powerful, enduring relationships sometimes develop between photographer and subject, and such was most definitely the case with LIFE’s Alfred Eisenstaedt and the...
Dustin Hoffman: Early Photos of an Actor on the Rise
If they stick around long enough, great actors — or great American actors, anyway — often seem to go through similar, predictable stages in their careers...
Oscar: Two is Better Than One
Cate Blanchett is the 11th performer to be nominated in both leading and supporting role categories in the same year. Here are the other ten.
Barbra Streisand: Early Photos of an Insecure Star
Barbra Streisand has been such a force on the entertainment scene for so long (her 1963 debut album, recorded when she was just 20, won an Album of the Year...
LIFE With Dirty Harry: Photos of Clint Eastwood, 1971
Clint Eastwood has been a very, very big movie star for more than four decades, and his recent empty-chair-addressing turn at the GOP convention aside, he’s long...
