Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

arg, gorgeous. slightly agog text accompanying each beautifully reproduced photograph in the hard cover version of this exhibit catalog ... but really. gaw-jus. garland snapped on the set of A STAR IS BORN worth the price of admission ... many familar and just as many unfamiliar images of truly fabulous women of the 20th century. and who knew, class, that frances perkins, first woman member of the Cabinet during the FDR administration, was such a fan of big honking pearls? yum.