54 Rare Historical Photos

Rare, historical, and (some) just plain bizarre. That's the best way to describe these 54 very unique photos in this gallery. Have you ever wanted to see Alfred Hitchcock dressed up like Ringo Starr from Beatles? We can take you there. How about Robin Williams decked out as a Denver Bronco's cheerleader - during the height of his Mork and Mindy days? Yeah we got that and a lot of other hard-to-find visual oddities.

Take a gander of rare shots of young David Bowie, Jackie Kennedy, Elvis with his parents, and not one, not two - but three Elvira pics. So get ready to have your mind blown with some history factoids and your eyes dazzled with some very rare photos. 

First of all, pretty great cast for this movie that I knew very little about: Bill Paxton, Liam Neeson and Patrick Swayze, as well as Ben Stiller and Helen Hunt in smaller roles. Simple movie fish-out-of-water premise: A Chicago cop, originally from some hillbilly town sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, his other hillbilly brothers decides to find the killer himself. Action ensues.

Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Ray Liotta, John Malkovich, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Ron Perlman, and Tim Robbins were considered for roles in this forgettable movie.

Chris Noel was a Hollywood sex symbol who became a Vietnam War icon. She was a model who turned actress - who then turned to entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Noel worked on the Armed Forces Radio And Television Service. Her program "A Date With Chris" made her fondly known by vets as "the voice of a California dream girl" by many Viet vets - while her pin up pics were very popular with the troops.

Noel entertained four tours of Vietnam and her helicopter was shot down twice.  For her work, she received the Distinguished Vietnam Veteran award in 1984 from the Veterans Network. 

How would you like to be a fly on the wall in this scenario? We have two generations of horror queens out on the town at the legendary Studio 54 in New York City. This scenario occured during the drug-fueled '70s. Janet Leigh is best known for classic her performance in Psycho - where she was stabbed in the shower by Norman Bates posing as his own mother in the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece. The shower scene is considered one of the greatest moments in cinematic history

Like mother like daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis is also known as a scream queen - from her role in the original Halloween movie - where she fought off the sadistic Michael Myers.

Looking at Janet Leigh's expression in this photo - it seems like she just saw Norman Bates busting some moves on the Studio 54 dance floor.

Bowie! Bowie! Bowie! Even as a 14-year old, David Bowie had that charismatic charm. Before he was a musical influential superstar, Bowie worked as a delivery boy for a local butcher in the town of Bromley in England. Bowie was not instantly seen as a musical prodigy. In junior high, the school choir teacher considered his voice "adequate. The upside, he did demonstrate an above-average proficiency in playing the recorder.

It wasn't until Bowie was 15 when formed his first band at the age of 15, called: The Konrads. Young Major Tom played guitar-style rock and roll at local youth gatherings and weddings. And the rest is Ziggy Stardust history.

So many sexual innuendos going on here - I don't even know where to begin.   The obvious joke would be: "Is that a gun or are you happy to see me?" I think this young woman is trying to get a reaction out of this Swedish Royal Guard - but he's not having it; no matter how seductively she eats that ice cream cone.

The Royal Guards are stationed in front of the Stockholm Palace. Their job is to protect and serve the Swedish Royal Family. Talk about loyalty, the Royal Guard has continuously been guarding the Royal Palace since 1523. And they can't be stopped - not even by a sexy woman eating an ice cream cone. 

Jayne Mansfield was considered a b-movie Marilyn Monroe. She was also one of the very early Playboy Playmates. Here she is in just a candid shot at home - tickling some ivories and showing off some cleavage.

A big claim to fame for Mansfield, she was the first major American actress to appear sans clothing in a starring role in a Hollywood movie. The 1963 sexploitation film is called: Promises! Promises! Much like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield was said to be "intimate" with many men - including both Robert and John F. Kennedy. Happy birthday, Mr. President.