The 40 Classiest People From The Past. I Wish We Were Still This Cool…

Our society has come a long way in the past few decades but we’ve completely forgotten what it’s like to be classy. Let’s take a lesson from these masters of “old school cool.”

Paul Newman boating around Venice, Italy during a film festival (1963)

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Elspeth Beard, in her late 20s, shortly after becoming first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle.

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Marlon Brando’s screen test in “Rebel Without A Cause” (1955)

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Children of Chicago (1941)

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Necklines in the 1950s

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Audrey Hepburn at a premiere on September 14, 1953.

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An old family photo from the early 1900s

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Sigourney Weaver in a suit

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Women boxing on a roof (1933)

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A young Harrison Ford

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A young boy stealing the show, back when kids knew how to dance (1950)

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Cosmos host and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson at a college wrestling match

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Clint Eastwood with actresses Olive Sturgess and Dani Crayne in San Francisco, 1954

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Ernest Hemingway’s striking passport photo (1923)

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‘Texting’ in Class (1944)

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Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis on the set of How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)

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A young Sean Connery relaxing on the couch

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A young Michael Caine in 1959

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A gang of greasers in NYC, 1950

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Caroline Kennedy walks on ahead while her father, JFK, carries her doll. (1960)

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1960s British mod girls spinning tunes on the radio.

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Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet – 1968

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Diana Rigg (Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones) in 1967

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Ellen O’Neal, the greatest woman freestyle skateboarder in the 1970s.

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Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes in 1956

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Audrey Hepburn on the set of her 1961 classic, Breakfast At Tiffany’s

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Jimi Hendrix backstage at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967

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Three boys pose for a camera on the streets of Jamaica

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The world’s suavest ice skating dude (1937)

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A businessman doubling as a graffiti artist

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The Beatles before they were famous

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This is how teenagers dated in the 1950s

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High school fashion feature in Life Magazine (1969)

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Leather clad English rocker girl

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Frank Sinatra stepping out of a helicopter with a drink

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Girl on a scooter (1969)

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A fashionable young woman in NYC on the cover of Life Magazine (1969)

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A young Kevin Spacey (1980s)

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Kid attending Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech (28th Aug, 1963)

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Teenagers and their first car (1950s)

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Dean Martin & Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo, 1959

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Girl with typewriter and a smoke

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Rare mugshots of 1920s criminals in suits and homburgs

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A couple on Michigan Avenue in Chicago (1975)

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A stylish couple in the rain in London (1963)

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A wealthy man in Denmark (1900s)

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A model posing in Union Square, New York City (1950s)

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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the horse races (1968)

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Muhammad Ali looking dapper

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Unknown man with afro (1973)

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David Bowie’s mugshot

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Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger sit opposite each other on a train to Bangor. (1967)

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A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station (1961)

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The definition of old school cool. Cary Grant in the 1950s

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A couple dancing in a 1950’s “Be Bop” theater

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