We all love pretty pictures, and lately my posts have been heavy on text, less so on images.

Hopefully this will help make it up to you: I present The Girls of Hollywood, movie stars from the Golden Age, as featured in Life Magazine of 1942. Can you recognise the famous (and less famous) faces? Despite their obvious beauty and glamour, they all look rather serious, perhaps befitting a nation already at war.

If you hover your mouse over the image, her name should appear – or you can click on an image to find out who the lovelies are.