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Du 2 mars au 4 juillet 2016 Carambolage (Le Littré) : (ka-ran-bo-la-j’) s. m. : terme du jeu de billard. Coup dans lequel la bille du joueur va toucher deux autres billes. fig. : coup double, ricochet. Jean-Hubert Martin propose une exposition inédite...

Olivia de Havilland Patricia Ellis Virginia Bruce Adrienne Ames Lucille Bremer Claudette Colbert Esther Ralston Greta Garbo Janet Blair Joan Blondell Isa Miranda Ida Lupino and photographer Scotty Welbourne Joan Crawford Loretta Young Merle Oberon Have a glamorous Wednesday! DP

Media is packed with shiny covers and airbrushed images of celebrities we love, but the candid behind-the-scenes images that capture the unpolished truths and honest emotions of these famous faces are what show someone we can actually relate to.

Carly Simon, especially for those who live on or visit Martha’s Vineyard, is a bold-faced name. In fact, she has been famous for so long it is as if she were born famous; biding her time in the womb, say, by humming the first bars of Anticipation. Such is the price of fame, this distorted view by those on the outside looking in. We see only the finished product, the glamorous stage presence, so natural, again as if she had rocked her own delivery room with a chorus of You’re So Vain. But this is a false picture, one that does not include the shy stutterer who achieved her success the old-fashioned way, with a lot of very hard work.

Ever since the dawn of the modern world, there have been wealthy heirs and heiresses waiting to pick up where their parents left off. On the flip side, socialites like Paris Hilton have made entire careers out of being the kids of famous entrepreneurs, even if they have no intention of getting involved in the family business.

Italian postcard by Cinema-Illustrazione, series 2, no. 35. United Artists. Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon in Indiscreet (Leo McCarey, 1931). The film was remade in 1958 with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the silent era. She transformed from a typical Mack Sennett comedienne into a lively, provocative, even predatory, star in films by Cecil B. De Mille. She received Oscar nominations for Sadie Thompson (1928), The Trespasser (1929) and Sunset Blvd. (1950). Ben Lyon (1901-1979) was an American stage, film, radio, and TV performer, as well as a studio manager. He is famous for his part as the war aviator in Hell's Angels (1930).

These celebrity couples have been together for decades — and they're just as in love as ever. Look back at some of the cutest vintage photos they've shared from their early courtships and weddings, 20, 30, 40 or more years earlier

Singer Gloria Estefan attending 'Sony Music Grammy Party' on February 25, 1998 at the Manhattan Center in New York City, New York.