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Humphrey Bogart with his wife Lauren Bacall, and their son Stephen, at their home in Beverly Hills on Christmas Eve. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)

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Circa 1932, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA — A Famous Father-and-Son Team go Ski-Larking. Lake Arrowhead, CA: Douglas Fairbanks, who returned to Hollywood Christmas Eve after another globe trotting expedition joins his noted son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., for a skiing jaunt at Lake Arrowhead– a smart California winter sports resort. The pair are shown on their skiis during a hike through the pineclad slopes that border the lake. Doug, Senior will leave after a few months for Europe to participate in the winter sports at St. Moritz. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Circa 1967 — A group portrait of Dean Martin and his family with Frank Sinatra and his family on “The Dean Martin Show.” — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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Slim Aaron’s most celebrated image was shot on New Year’s Eve of 1957 in the Crown Room at Romanoff’s restaurant in Hollywood. Called ”The Kings of Hollywood,” it shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart — what Smithsonian magazine called ”a Mount Rushmore of stardom” and the novelist Louis Auchincloss ”the very image of American he-men.” Why are the men in the picture all laughing? Mr. Aarons sometimes said he did not know why. In all truth, those chortling stars in ”The Kings of Hollywood,” Mr. Aarons sometimes admitted, were really laughing at him. Mr. Gable had said how bad he thought Mr. Aarons’s acting was in a small movie part.

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