A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
LIFE.com presents a series of portraits that help us see the human beings behind some of the 20th century's most vital works of art.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
In the summer of 2023 Hollywood’s actors and writers are both on strike—the first time that has happened since 1960. The modern strike is all about the changes to the entertainment business being wrought by streaming services and artificial intelligence, and the 1960 strike was also inspired by new technology—specifically, television. Movies that had originally ... Read more
The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s brand new special tribute issue ABBA: Their Songs. Their Stories. Their Lives, available at newsstands and online. At their 1996 reunion concert, punk pioneers the Sex Pistols wanted to poke fun at pointless pop. Before they took the stage at London’s Finsbury Park, ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” blasted ... Read more
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
One of the great changes that took place during the original run of LIFE magazine was the rise of television culture. When the magazine was founded in 1936, television still largely a creature of the laboratory. By the time the magazine ended its original run in 1972, about 95 percent of American homes had a ... Read more
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
On what would have been his 97th birthday, LIFE pays tribute to Dean Martin, one of show business' enduring, and most laid-back, legends.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
September 19, 2012, is the 30th anniversary of the first recorded use of anyone, anywhere, championing the digital "sideways smiley" emoticon. Here, LIFE.com celebrates "living" emoticons in wildly expressive faces.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
LIFE celebrates the young Brigitte Bardot with a series of photographs – most of which never ran in LIFE magazine – made in Spain in 1958.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
The 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder has aged remarkably well, perhaps because it was so ahead of its time, both because of its nuanced depiction of the legal process and its anticipation of the popularity of stories that draw from true crime. The film is based on a novel written by the district attorney ... Read more
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.
It says something about the scale of the accomplishments of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that, more than 30 years after he retired from playing basketball, he remains a regular presence in the public sphere. In February 2023 the six-time NBA MVP and six-time NBA champion graciously handed a ceremonial basketball to Lebron James to commemorate James breaking ... Read more