ZUM4869983: Aug. 08, 1953 - Hello, Marlene... If not just as famous as the Marlene of the song, 22 year old brunette of San Francisco, Marlene Dillman got into limelight after winning the” Self Made Dress” contest organized by Mc Call's magazine. 25,000 competitors took part in the contest and Marlene's dress made by herself was found the best. Besides achieving fame, Marlene is the lucky winner of a trip to Paris. She is pictured here in her room at the hotel” Prince de Wales” near the Champs -Elysée. / Bridgeman Images
ICA4869988: La Nature des choses, Satirique en N & B, 1969_4_12: Elections, President of the Republic, Left Opposition - Marianne, De Gaulle Charles, Mitterrand Francois, Rocard Michel, Mollet Guy, Waldeck Rochet, Defferre Gaston, Le Canuet - Illustration by Jacques Faizant (1918-2006), Faizant, Jacques (1918-2006) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870354: Aug. 08, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes first descent in his new” Bathysphere”: Professor Piccard the famous Swiss Belgian physicist was accompanied by his son Jacques when he recently made his first descent into the sea at Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples, in his newly designed Bathysphere in which he hopes to reach a depth of 13,000 feet, near the islands of Ponza to explore and photograph the sea bottom. Three dives of a few minutes each - to a depth of 40 ft. were made / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4869599: CASABLANCA CONFERENCE - January 1943 - Allied leaders meeting at the Casablanca Conference, at the Hotel Anfa. Left to right: General Henri Honore Giraud (1879-1949), High Commissioner of French North Africa; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French; and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870867: Aug. 08, 1953 - Folk dancers from Brunswick - take it easy on the sea front at Rhyl.: A party of young Brunswick Fol Dancers who came from Germany to take part in the National Eisteddfod at Rhyl, aroused a great deal of interest when they took a walk along the sands wearing their colourful costumes / Bridgeman Images
ETE4871041: Second World War (1939-1945) (WWII): General Dwight Eisenhower (1880-1969), Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and General Jean De Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), Commander of the 1st French Army, at the French Army Headquarters, East of France, 25 November 1944: with a 15-year-old boy who guards prisoners German - Photography, France, 1944 / Bridgeman Images