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Rare 1949 Photographs Show the Making of 'Sunset Boulevard'

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

This Is What 'The Bachelor' Might Have Looked Like 50 Years Ago

By Eliza Berman

Relive Your Childhood With These Photos of Kids Frolicking in Autumn Leaves

By Eliza Berman

This May Be the Youngest Cowgirl Ever

By Eliza Berman
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How to Make Summer Watermelon Punch for a 1940s Party

For adults of drinking age, the spiked watermelon has long been a beach party staple.

By Eliza Berman

See Photos of Disneyland When It Opened in 1955

Celebrate the theme park with a look at its first weeks as a national sensation

By Eliza Berman

See Photos of Peggy Lee as a Rising Star in the 1940s

On what would have been the entertainer's 95th birthday, a look back at LIFE's photo essay of the "Busy Singer"

By Eliza Berman

Beyond La Dolce Vita: Anita Ekberg’s Life and Career Before and After Her Most Famous Role

Swedish-born actress died Sunday at age 83

By Eliza Berman

These Inventions Are Weirder Than Anything You'll Find at CES This Year

If necessity is the mother of invention, then this is a crop of motherless inventions

By Eliza Berman

Inventing the Future, One Sublime, Ridiculous Contraption at a Time

Photos of kooky inventions in 1947 that nicely convey both the creativity and the absurdity inherent in a consumerist culture.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With Dizzy Gillespie: Rare and Classic Portraits of a Playful Genius

Rare and classic LIFE photos of jazz great Dizzy Gillespie capture the spirit of American bebop in the late 1940s.

By Steve Futterman

Learning to Fly: A Young Man Soars Above a Santa Monica Beach

Some of us will see this picture for the first time and, before it all becomes clear, we might think we're seeing . . . what? Icarus falling from the sky?

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole

Seven decades after an Ohio couple tied the knot atop a 176-foot flagpole, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love.

By Ben Cosgrove

Road Trip! Photos From US Route 30 in 1948

As summer approaches and the urge to hit the highways -- and the byways, and the back roads -- begins to take hold, LIFE offers a series of pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made seven long decades ago.

By Ben Cosgrove and Liz Ronk

Maleficent Comes Alive! 1958 Edition

In 1958, LIFE photographer Allan Grant captured model Jane Fowler acting out some of the movements that made Maleficent a powerhouse animated villainess.

By Ben Cosgrove

Dean Martin: Rare and Classic Photos of a Laid-Back Legend

On what would have been his 97th birthday, LIFE pays tribute to Dean Martin, one of show business' enduring -- and most laid-back -- legends.

By Liz Ronk

'I'm Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam': Portrait of an American Spree Killer

LIFE.com recalls a killing spree from a half-century ago — a reminder that the unspeakable and the sensational frequently go hand in hand, and that the lessons we glean from such savagery are, all too often, quickly forgotten.

By Ben Cosgrove

Autumn Rhythm: At Play in a Pile of Leaves

With another autumn upon us, LIFE.com celebrates the wonderful feeling of diving into a neatly constructed mound of dry, colorful, fallen leaves -- and making it positively explode.

By Ben Cosgrove

Howard Hughes and His Larger-Than-Life Dream Machine, the Spruce Goose

LIFE.com offers a series of photos from the life of the billionaire, recluse and aviation genius -- including pictures of his astonishing creation, the "Spruce Goose" transport plane.

By Ben Cosgrove

Allan Grant: LIFE Magazine's Great Chronicler of Hollywood

Allan Grant's portraits of the stars of the Fifties' and Sixties' highlight his ability to get close to people and capture something genuine, if fleeting, about the rich and famous in their unguarded moments.

By Ben Cosgrove
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