Hollywood glamour
Silver screen mystique
Hollywood glamour is the idealized elegance, beauty, and sophistication associated with the American film industry's golden age—roughly the 1930s through 1950s.
It evokes dramatic lighting, designer gowns, coiffed hair, and an aura of unattainable perfection: She arrived at the gala dripping in old Hollywood glamour.
The phrase now describes any aesthetic that channels that polished, larger-than-life style.
- evening gownsFormal women's floor-length dresses
- haute coutureCustom luxury dressmaking
- Academy AwardsAnnual film achievement honors
- film noirStylish, shadowy crime drama
- dramatic lightingHigh-contrast, mood-setting illumination
Marilyn Monroe · Greta Garbo · Elizabeth Taylor · costume design · Technicolor · Audrey Hepburn · silver screen · Clark Gable · close-ups · studio system · paparazzi · celebrity culture · tuxedos · black tie · movie premiere · Grace Kelly · leading lady · pearl necklaces
- celebrity photoscelebrity portraits, headshots, publicity shots, publicity stills, red carpet photos
- Hollywood glamourmakeup, screen presence, photogenic, elegance, allure
- Pinupspinup, pin-up girl, cheesecake, cheesecake photo, Bettie Page
- dress codesblack tie, white tie, business casual, business formal, smart casual
- golden agegolden age, paradise, Eden, utopia, Arcadia
- Art Decoart deco, sunburst, sunbursts, chevron, zigzag
Hollywood glamourplainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
dowdiness · drabness · frumpiness · ordinariness · homeliness
Hollywood glamourrealness
State of being authentic
unvarnished truth · raw honesty · unpretentiousness · what-you-see-is-what-you-get · inner beauty
Hollywood glamourpoverty
Severe lack of resources
destitution · deprivation · austerity · modest means · skid row