Yvon de Carlo: 1950s beauty fatal that Hollywood directors loved to shoot in horror films (30 photos)

The Butterfly Writer Loved: How Nabokov's Winged Muses Became His Fatal Passion

Vladimir Nabokov caught the first butterfly in the Vyra family estate near St. Petersburg, when he was six. It was a magnificent swallowtail. The boy put him in a glass cabinet. In the morning, when the door was opened, the winged creature flew away. The next butterfly caught by the future writer, the mother helped to put to sleep with ether. This is how Vladimir Nabokov's passionate love for lepidoptera began. He also loved chess and boxed. But it was precisely the passion for butterflies, according to his son, that became fatal for the writer

Secrets of a real Parisian woman who drives the best directors of the world crazy with her beauty and talent: Melanie Laurent

In her native France, 36-year-old Melanie Laurent has long been a top star. In the world she is known for her roles in some cult films - including the authorship of Quentin Tarantino. She is interested in a lot and succeeds in everything - at least, it seems so. Maybe it's all about the mysterious charm of a real Frenchwoman?

The tragic fate of the first beauty of Soviet cinema of the 1950s: the years of oblivion and the mystery of the death of Künn Ignatova

In the 1950s-1960s. this actress was admired by thousands of spectators, she was one of the brightest stars of Soviet cinema. In the 1970s. Kunna Ignatova disappeared from the screens, and soon even the most devoted fans forgot about her. And 30 years ago, at the end of February 1988, she was found on the floor of her own apartment with no signs of life. Friends and relatives still argue about the reasons and circumstances of her premature departure

"Tell everyone that I loved them": Children wrote farewell messages from "Winter Cherry" to loved ones

March 26, 2018 is a terrible day. Many, traditionally opening news feeds on their smartphones and computers in the morning, realized that a tragedy had happened on Sunday. The number of victims is growing hour by hour, it becomes terrifying only from the list of missing persons - these are children. The schoolchildren began their spring break, and many went to the Kemerovo shopping center to celebrate this event with their parents, friends and even whole classes. Since Beslan in Russia, it seems that there have not been so many child deaths

The most famous blondes in Hollywood, who were considered the standards of female beauty in the 1950s (15 photos)

Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Nichols, Janet Lane, Barbara Lange - and many other Hollywood beauties of the middle of the last century. They were so talented and so different. And yet there was one thing that united them - they were all blondes, albeit not natural. But it was these beauties that consolidated the fashion for light hair color. In this review, photos of the most famous Hollywood divas with blonde hair