Early in his first term as president, Lyndon B. Johnson found himself caught up in a scandal involving his family’s […]
Eddie Murphy: Images of a Star Taking Flight
In its 50 years Saturday Night Live has been the launching pad for a great many stars of movies and […]
Michael Jordan: The One and Only
The following is excerpted from LIFE’s new special issue Michael Jordan: The Greatest of All Time, available at newsstands and […]
Bears: Strong, Wise, and Increasingly Among Us
The following is adapted from LIFE’s new special issue on bears, available at newsstands and online: Globally, bear populations are […]
LIFE With Ingrid Bergman
More than most stars of her rare magnitude, Ingrid Bergman was an actress who went her own way. A Hollywood […]
Behind the Picture: Hansel Mieth’s Wet, Unhappy Monkey
It is, without question, one of the most famous, most frequently reproduced animal photographs ever made. But photographer Hansel Mieth‘s […]
LIFE Gushed That This Actress Was “Paulette, Hedy and Ava, All in One”
LIFE was quite the fan of Austrian actress Senta Berger, at least judging by the coverage it offered when she […]
Apes: Their Remarkable World
The following is from LIFE’s new special issue Apes: Their Remarkable World, available at newsstands and online: Two rangers quietly […]
The Oscar-Winning Movie Where the Stars Were All Birds
If it’s not the strangest movie ever to come out of Hollywood, it’s close enough. And of all the strange […]
Stones on the Run: A Death Valley Spectacle
In its March 10, 1952 issue LIFE magazine served its readers photos of the “sailing rocks” of the Racetrack Playa, […]