BY CLIFFORD COFFIN/COURTESY OF VOGUE.
Credited as the first Bond girl, for appearing on-screen in a 1954 television adaption of Casino Royale, Linda Christian ensnared such leading men as Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, and Spanish athlete Alfonso de Portago. Here, the Mexican-born stunner poses in 1949.
BY CLIFFORD COFFIN/COURTESY OF VOGUE.
French actor and director Jean Marais leaned—Lothario-like —in this moody, magnetic photograph taken in 1946.
"The men and women of the 1940s —or at least those who populated the era’s beloved film noir —dressed to kill." Credit: Vanity Fair
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