Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942), ca 1932

Colorized a photo of Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) recognized the Queen of Screwball Comedy, a screen legend and fashion icon. She took the crown from Greta Garbo as the highest paid actress in Hollywood during the late 1930s. Of all the screen goddesses that the "King" of Hollywood" Clark Gable worked with on screen (and with whom he never failed to have an affair), it was the blonde blue-eyed Carole he married in 1938.   That may say a lot about his taste in women, but no matter, Clark continued to have off screen romances with her leading ladies, notably Joan Crawford, which Carole knew but did not make a fuss as she understood her man. When news of Carole's death from the crash of her TWA flight reached him, Clark Gable was in bed with Joan, who consoled and comforted a genuinely devastated Gable.

Greta Garbo (1905 - 1990) colorized from a late 1930s photo

Came across a rather different looking Greta Garbo without the deep-set eyes and the artificial eyelashes that have become her signature copied by several a actresses during her time and after. 

Young Ava Gardner (1922 - 1990) colorized from an undated photo, ca early to mid-1940s

A young pre-hollywood Ava Gardner (1922 - 1990), colorized from a 1941 photo

Colorized a photo of the young Ava Gardner taken by photographer Larry Tarr in 1940 when she was just 19 years old. Gardner was visiting her sister Beatrice in New York , when Beatrice's husband Larry Tarr, a professional photographer, offered to take her portrait. He was so pleased with the results that he displayed the finished product in the front window of his Tarr Photography Studio on Fifth Avenue.  MGM talent scout Barnard Duhan spotted Gardner's photo in Tarr's studio and commented to him that the photo should be sent to MGM. Tarr did so immediately and shortly after, Ava who was a student at Atlantic Christian College was interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department. The rest is, as they say, is history.

Ava Gardner, colorized undated rare photo, possibly mid-1950s

Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982) Colorized from a 1953 photo.

Here was Grace Kelly in a 1953 photo holding a pet kitten to her face.  Not entirely sure why she used a silk scarf to hold it, but it made a nice photo composition.

Teenaged Ingrid Bergman colorized from a self-portrait photo ca early 1930s.

The young Ingrid Bergman in her late teens.  Said to be a self-portrait photo using her father's camera.  Some of the original photos indicated she was just 14 here taken in 1934.  But she was born in 1915 so that would make her 19 years in 1934.