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Gene Kelly: Rare Photos of a Song and Dance Legend in Paris

By Ben Cosgrove

Adoring Billy Eckstine: Portrait of a Jazz Legend and His Fans

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Mickey Rooney: America's Favorite Actor Steals the Show at FDR's Birthday Party

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Doris Day: Rare Early Photos of a Showbiz Superstar

LIFE.com offers a series of rare photos of the star in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

By Ben Cosgrove

Kirk Douglas: Rare Early Photos of a Hollywood Legend

Kirk Douglas has been a force in Hollywood for so long that it's easy to forget that, like every actor, he was once a virtual unknown

By Ben Cosgrove

Ali vs. Liston in Miami Beach: The Night 'the Greatest' Was Born

Photos from the night Cassius Clay -- soon to be Muhammad Ali -- beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing crown, and launched a legend.

By Ben Cosgrove

Shirley Temple: Child Star, Political Player, Cultural Icon

Shirley Temple Black -- known to millions as Shirley Temple and arguably the greatest child movie star of all time -- died one year ago today.

By Ben Cosgrove

Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army

Rare and classic photos of Elvis Presley in 1960, when he was leaving the Army, returning to the States and ready to again be King.

By Ben Cosgrove

'I Was in LIFE': Rita Moreno Remembers

The one and only Rita Moreno recalls what it was like when, as a 22-year-old actress in 1954, she appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine.

By Ben Cosgrove

Young Mia Farrow: Rare and Classic Photos of an Actress on the Rise

On Mia Farrow's birthday -- she turns 69 on Feb. 9 -- LIFE features classic and unpublished photos of the actress at 22, when she was married to Sinatra and on the cusp of stardom.

By Ben Cosgrove

Tearful Photos from the Day Marilyn Divorced DiMaggio in 1954

On the 60th anniversary of their wedding, pictures from the day Marilyn Monroe announced she was seeking a divorce from Joe DiMaggio on grounds of "mental cruelty."

By Ben Cosgrove

Marilyn Monroe: Rare Photos of an Up-and-Coming Star, 1952

In 1952, LIFE photographer Loomis Dean captured a young Marilyn Monroe as she captivated the crowd at a Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards ceremony in Santa Monica.

By Ben Cosgrove

Natalie Wood: Rare and Classic Photos of the Lifelong Movie Star

Wood was a lifelong movie star, and LIFE was there to capture her journey to stardom

By Ben Cosgrove

'It's a Wonderful Life': Rare Photos From the Set of a Holiday Classic

In the summer of 1946, LIFE photographer Martha Holmes visited the set of a movie destined for immortality: 'It's a Wonderful Life'

By Ben Cosgrove

Greta Garbo: Portrait of a Legend Who Turned Her Back on Fame

On her birthday -- b. September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden -- LIFE remembers Greta Garbo as seen through the lens of master photographer Edward Steichen.

By Ben Cosgrove

Old Gold: When Hollywood's Leading Men Were Real-Life Grown-Ups

Four of the most enduring stars in Hollywood history -- Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven -- share a raucous laugh in 1958.

By Ben Cosgrove

Robert Redford: Portraits of a Movie Legend and American Maverick, 1969

Intimate photos from the year the actor became a major figure on the Hollywood scene

By Ben Cosgrove

Marlon Brando: Portraits of a Charismatic Young Star, 1952

Photos of a young Brando at his most charismatic and mysterious, seen through the lens of one of LIFE's greatest photographers: Margaret Bourke-White.

By Ben Cosgrove

Beautiful Enigma: LIFE With James Dean

LIFE.com remembers the too-short life and brilliant, violently truncated career of James Dean, through classic photographs by Dennis Stock.

By Ben Cosgrove
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