Old Hollywood icons

Glamour, expensive jewelry, cigarettes, evening dresses, seductive eyes, intrigues appearances, red carpets, in short, a precious life in the world center of show business - Hollywood.

The old Hollywood aesthetic is still attractive and relevant. These women managed to become definition of sex symbols.

Here are incredible women who shaped Golden Age of Hollywood:

In a white fur and satin dress in 1954, Marilyn Monroe prepares to take to the red carpet for the premier of Walter Lang's musical There's No Business Like Show Business. A year earlier, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has confirmed her Hollywood icon status. 

With finger waves, an ivory cigarette holder, floor-length sheath dress and white fur, Rita Hayworth played femme fatale Gilda in the Charles Vidor film, which would make her one of the biggest female stars of the forties.

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly was Alfred Hitchcock's favorite actress. He directed her in 1955 opposite Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, a year before she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco and became Princess Grace of Monaco.

Lana Turner was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood when this portrait was taken in 1945, and would go on to marry seven times. 

Blue-eyed blonde bombshell Veronica Lake in a paillete dress in I Wanted Wings, 1933. 

Lauren Bacall and her husband Humphrey Bogart at the 1951 Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, which saw Bacall take the Oscar for best actress for her role The African Queen. She would go on to receive a lifetime achievement award in 2009.

Satin dress by costume designer Travis Banton worn in Desire, 1936.

"Life's not all about money, there are furs and jewelry as well, " said Elizabeth Taylor, a philosophy she is following by the book in this shot from 1950.

In 1943, Hedy Lamarr appeared in The Heavenly Body, famous for its scene on the moon.

Another Hitchcock muse, here, Ingrid Bergman poses with finger waves and a simple drape dress in 1940. 

The legendary filmstars together in Top Hat by Mark Sandrich in 1935. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire would go on to be the most famous film duo of the forties and shoot 10 films together.

Known as Baby or The Platinum Blonde, Jean Harlow was one of the first Hollywood icons. She appeared in The Red-Headed Woman by Jack Conway in 1932.

In 1952, Jane Russell appeared alongside Robert Mitchum in Macao by Josef von Sternberg, in a black cut-out outfit.

A four-time Oscar winner, Katharine Hepburn had a fierce anti-conformist streak and refused to attend the ceremonies. Here, she plays alognside Cary Grant in 1935 in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett.

In 1950, Kim Novak was starting out in Hollywood and is pictured here at a dinner with Marlon Brando.

Nicknamed the Hollywood Queen, Myrna Loy was considered to be one of the most beautiful women of the thirties. Courted by actors like Clark Gable and John Barrymore, she excelled in ideal wife roles.