Bathing Beauties: Paired Up

Mary Stuart and Ellen Ross flirt with an equine friend

Mary Lawler & Dorothy McNulty contort on the beach, 1930

Joan Dixon and Cleo Moore find buried treasure

Janet Gaynor and Margaret Lindsay

Jane Wyman is serviced by a fetching friend

Dorothy Sebastian and Leila Hyams

Dorothy Sebastian again, this time with Anita Page

Bette Davis and Joan Blondell

Gloria Grahame throws Cyd Charisse off the pilings

Bathing Beauties: Marie Prevost & Gloria Swanson

Out on the Town

Marlene Dietrich and Ann Warner at the Trocadero, 1939


Dorothy Malone and Ann Sheridan 1952


Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, circa 1960

Bathing Beauties: Dorothy Sebastian & Joan Crawford

Hey, I'll pay these two five dollars just to see them try to swim in them shoes!

See, they were getting along so well, lunching and exercising on the beach, then Dorothy had to go and mention wire clothes hangers...

Bathing Beauties: Carole Landis & Virginia Dale

Carole Landis & Virginia Dale

Bathing Beauties: Agnes Franey & Myrna Loy

Seaside flappers Agnes Franey and Myrna Loy show off the latest 1929 beach fashions.