50 Unedited Vintage Photos And The Intriguing Stories Behind Them

By | January 13, 2023

French beauties Leslie Caron and Brigitte Bardot in 1954.

Take a trip with us back to see pics of the stars before they made it big. Learn a little bit about Alan Alda and Alex Trebek in the early days of their careers. Reminisce about road trips, and check out the cars of George Harrison and Clint Eastwood, as well as Jim Henson’s playful car that looks a bit like Kermit the Frog. Read about some celebrity friendships you may not have known about. And learn the backstories of people like Kris Jenner (did you know she was a stewardess?) and “Macho Man” Randy Savage, back when he was Randy Poffo. Enjoy this trip down memory lane with the celebrities, musicians, and events that decorated our lives. Maybe you’ll learn something that might help you in a bar trivia contest.

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Before either of them were stars, they were both ballerinas. Caron was a ballerina in Ballets des Champs-Elysees, as was Brigitte Bardot. Canon was discovered by Gene Kelly, and was cast in her first film, An American in Paris (1951). Bardot, who had become friends with Canon while they were both ballerinas, first became a model, where she was discovered and cast in her first film, Crazy for Love (1952). Although the friends got their starts on similar paths, they soon diverged, with Bardot’s acting career ending in 1973.

Stewardess Kris Houghton ( Jenner) back in 1977, she was 22 years old at the time and dating a photographer.

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Kris Jenner wasn’t always a wealthy matriarch and reality television star. She got her start working as a teenager in a donut shop, where she cleaned the donut makers and removed the glaze from the floor. She went on to work as a flight attendant for American Airlines, a job that taught her important people skills as well as responsibility. At the time, she was dating professional photographer Alfred M. Garcia, who shot modeling photos of her. She married Robert Kardashian in 1978.