Greta Garbo
Marlene Dietrich receiving word of the Japanese surrender, August 1945, which brought an end to World War II.
Dietrich had spent the last 2 years of the war traveling with and entertaining Allied troops in Europe. For her war work she was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US government and the Légion d'honneur by the French government.
“This is the way he lived. My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others, will some day come to pass for all the world.
As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: ‘Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.’” - Ted Kennedy eulogizes his brother Bobby Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy: November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968
Happy Birthday Norma Jeane aka Marilyn Monroe
“June 1st, 1926 - August 1st, 1962”
“…Your candle burned out long before, your legend ever did…”
Happy 48th, Chiara Mastroianni.
With her mother, Catherine Deneuve, in Christophe Honoré’s Beloved (2011).