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Claire Bloom on board the Mauretania

1951. Claire Bloom arrives in New York on her way to film Limelight. In her memoirs she writes:

…we discovered that there was enough money in the bank for me to buy one beautiful dress to take with me to Hollywood. I went to Victor Stiebel, I bought the beautiful dress, and there in the fitting room had the first full realisation of what had happened. This time we were to travel by sea to New York and then by train to California.

Could this be that dress? Photo by W A Probst.

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