Best-Ever Oscar Photos: Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty & More (PHOTOS)

LIFE magazine has rounded up the best of their vintage Oscar photos. Scroll through to see how Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Kirk Douglas and more did Old Hollywood glamour, and go here for more photos.

PHOTOS:

• • • • • • • Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage, 1956

You can see the rest of the LIFE slide show here.

Comments

[mockingbird1]

01:07 AM on 04/09/2010

Please, more!

[darkmark]

11:31 AM on 04/04/2010

the picture of kirk douglas is classic.

[FredKnowsBest]

11:55 AM on 03/28/2010

I don't see much diversity in the photos.

[ChrisDWard]

02:52 PM on 03/20/2010

Audrey and Grace look like two prima ballerinas waiting in the wings for their cue. So lovely, graceful, and discreet! Beautiful!

[colette]

12:09 PM on 03/20/2010

Ah -- those were the days when we could just appreciate these beautiful and gifted icons without knowing all about their sex, drug, alcohol, tantrum, money etc. problems. Much better for them to be glorious figments of our collective imagination......

[Libsrock]

11:10 AM on 03/07/2010

Simply breathtaking. Without sky-high heels they can't walk in (take note, Mariah), or slashed down to there or up to here dresses (take note again, Mariah). And the men - oh the men. The sweetest of all was the pic of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. And, BTW, I am not a Mariah hater, I think she has a gorgeous voice. She just needs to stop dressing like she's 14.

[leajazz]

01:08 AM on 03/07/2010

Some of their best movies:

Grace Kelly and James Stewart, in Rear Window and Thelma Ritter

Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden in Sabrina

Natalie Wood and Robert Redford, in This Property Is Condemned

can't leave out: Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, got a kick out of the lady who played her mother, can't remember her name.

[Hawaii4Obama]

07:08 PM on 03/06/2010

There will NEVER be another Audrey Hepburn....class, grace, elegance, beauty, philanthropy....helluva combination. She was known for her incredible work with Unicef beyond her film work....whenever I see "Roman Holiday" with her and Gregory Peck...you see two actors who have no peers. Gregory Peck...now THERE'S a man!!!!

[luciadulu]

05:56 PM on 03/06/2010

Wow. Nothing looks better on a man than white tie and tails. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to hear what Cary, Clark, Bob and Davis were laughing at-- probably something entirely off color!

[ChrisDWard]

05:48 PM on 03/06/2010

What elegant beauties Audrey, Grace, and Natalie were.

[Furby2]

04:23 PM on 03/06/2010

Hollywood sure ain't what it used to be.

[philohooke]

02:58 PM on 03/06/2010

Those were fabulous, thank you! They all seem so dignified and gorgeous. Makes a person want for such a time as this.

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[stylembe]

02:46 PM on 03/06/2010

For your consideration,

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[Agentlady007]

02:30 PM on 03/06/2010

All great photos. I was watching the original " The Secret Garden" on AMC classics, 31 Days of Oscar, and after google searches, I had no idea Dean Stockwell has won 10 Oscars in his lifetime. I think it's time to give him an honorary Oscar for Lifetime achievement. I hope he's mentioned tomorrow. It's amazing how different he looks as an adult star from his early child star days.
Here's a picture of Dean Stockwell young - around the same year he did The Secret Garden and The Boy With Green Hair:
http://www.classicmoviekids.com/images/s/stockwell/stockwell4045.jpg

And here is a more recent picture you might recognize:
http://www.nndb.com/people/891/000023822/stockwell3.jpg

Quite the career. I am glad at least 31 Days of Oscar has acknowledged his brilliant career.

[Agentlady007]

02:39 PM on 03/06/2010

I wish there was an edit button on this website...my mistake. He's won 10 awards, and was nominated for an Oscar for " Married to the Mob". I still think with a career such as his, he deserves an honorary Oscar for a lifetime of amazing work.

[Agentlady007]

02:41 PM on 03/06/2010

Dean Stockwell Awards:
http://stockwellsassies.tripod.com/awards.html

[hdohighdesertobserver]

09:57 AM on 03/06/2010

The men are all wearing formal evening dress, which we have come to know as tuxedos, but Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas are wearing white tie and tail coats. There simply was no finer or more formal attire for a man.