20 vintage Hollywood starlets get in the Halloween spirit

Are you abuzz with excitement over Halloween's impending arrival next week like I am? If the festively themed posts that have been filling the vintage blogosphere already as of late are anything to go, then I highly suspect many of you are are as well.

Whether you're practically living in your costume, bowl of candy all set to hand out to trick-or-treaters, already or haven't yet had a chance to even figure out what you're going to wear this All Hallow's Eve, I thought it would be an inspiration filled blast to take a look at twenty photographs of classic Hollywood starlets decked out on some seriously wonderful vintage Halloween garb.

Whether you want to take a page from one of these looks for your costume, or just adore looking at these snaps and further getting in the spirit of October 31st, I hope you all enjoy these delightfully spooky photos of yesteryear actresses as much as I did!

~*~ Lillian Wells ~*~

~*~ Etchika Choureau ~*~

~*~  Peggy Ryan ~*~

~*~  Paulette Goddard ~*~

~*~  Virginia Welles ~*~

~*~ Cyd Charisse  ~*~

~*~ Colleen Moore ~*~

~*~ Ida Lupino ~*~

  

~*~  Ann Miller ~*~

~*~  Kim Novak ~*~

~*~ Dusty Anderson  ~*~

~*~ Myrna Loy ~*~

~*~ Nan Grey ~*~

~*~  Lucia Carroll ~*~

~*~ Yvonne De Carlo ~*~

~*~ Ruth Roman ~*~

~*~ Anne Nagel ~*~

~*~  Veronica Lake ~*~

~*~ Betty Grabble ~*~

~*~ Ava Gardner ~*~

{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on it to be taken to its respective Flickr page.}

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Oh-la-la! What a bevy of stunning vintage beauties! Do you have a favourite photo from amongst these immensely talented, Halloween costume clad actresses?

A chance encounter with a certain type of vintage hat early on this year instantly morphed into the idea for what I wanted my Halloween costume to be this October, and in the ensuing months, I've tried to find other pieces to go with it, so that I could have a complete costume. Was I successful? Well, you'll just have to wait until Halloween to find out!

Luckily though, with just six more days to go, you wont' be waiting long, and in the meantime we can all set about putting the finishing touches on our home decor, candy stashes, costumes, and party decorations, so that when the awesomeness that is Halloween finally rolls around, we'll be as ready and rearing to go as a witch at a buy one get one free cauldron sale when the big night arrives!