Audrey Hepburn. Marlon Brando. Elizabeth Taylor. Kirk Douglas. Grace Kelly. Bogart and Bacall... you have the image. And during the golden age of Hollywood, when it came to the awards of the Academy, picture, also - again and again.
In fact, from the red carpet to the stage for the parties back (where tuxedos and dresses were de rigueur) there was some outstanding moments of Oscar who lost his life. Here, in honor of Hollywood, actors, actresses and the magic of the cinema in general - we are fans, after all - LIFE.com offers a selection of Oscar photos that not only the family brilliance and glamour of capture procedures, but those moments much more rare when a superstar drops his guard and, for a moment, we see someone that seems extraordinarily - although most handsomemore rich, with more charisma that most of us could call in life to treat.
[More: see which film time readers chose as the best winner best film ever.]
(Trivia Note: there are several, stories compete around the origin of the name "Oscar" as a designation for the coveted statuette.) Some historians believe that Bette Davis, of all people, coined the term because it resembled the statue - the story - her first husband, bandleader Harmon Oscar Nelson. Another creation myth is that a Secretary to the great head of study of the golden age of Mayer saw the first Oscar statuette and uttered a ringer died to King Oscar II of Norway. No one, however, has always definitely nailed first that he gave the name of Oscar on the Academy Awards. And part of us expected that no one does).
-Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com
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