[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

Cabaret dancer, eighteen year old Ann Sullivan enjoys a smoke on her way to work by underground. For two shows a night and one on Saturdays she is paid £12 a week.

Bert Hardy, “This Is How the Chorus Lives,” Picture Post, 1952

Anita Ekberg

June 18th, 1955. Natalie photographed by Earl Leaf. 

Brigitte Bardot during the filming of A Very Private Affair, Switzerland, 1961

did u guys know u can change ur life at any point it doesn’t matter when and it is never too late😳

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) dir. Laurence Olivier

sorolla

Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957)

J.P. Berame, from This Year

Sophia Loren pouring champagne in NYC, 1963 - the photographer is unknown

Eartha Kitt and James Dean in NYC, photographed by Dennis Stock in 1955

… still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. ‘’I dont know what the feeling of love is really like. I dont know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.’’ 

- Excerpt of Eartha Kitt’s autobiography I’m Still Here (1989)

new years daydreams: read more, fill up more journals, walk without purpose more, take more baths, indulge without guilt, let myself feel happy, be patient and kind first, add the pat of butter and the glug of wine, write down more recipes, keep reaching out, don’t let fear stop me, savor it.