Classic Stars on the Slopes (Photos)
John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin, Rita Hayworth, and a whole flock of Kennedy's are just some of the classic celebrities who have clicked into their skis for a snowy winter vacation.
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American actress and dancer Rita Hayworth skis during her winter holiday at Murren, Switzerland in 1949.
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American actors Gene Hackman and Robert Redford hold ski poles during a scene from the film Downhill Racer directed by Michael Ritchie in 1969.
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In January, 1937, John Wayne and Barbara Read trudge along the snow-covered slopes of the Big Pines mountain resort in California in search of spot to try out their skills.
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Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline enjoy a joke as they vacation at a ski resort in Idaho during a family vacation in 1966.
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Beatles-member John Lennon takes a spill while skiing during a vacation near St. Moritz, Switzerland on January 28, 1965.
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Actor Charlton Heston and his wife of nine years, actress Lydia Clarke, enjoy some time off during a ski-weekend at Grossinger's in New York's Catskill Mountains in February 1952.
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Comic actor Charlie Chaplin poses on a U.S. ski slope in 1932.
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United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, view the Continental Divide while skiing at Independence Pass on October 2, 1961 in Aspen, Colorado.
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From right to left, actors Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, and Ingrid Berman ski with Jack Hemingway, eldest son of writer Ernest Hemingway in Idaho.
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American actor Clark Gable takes in the scene at Lake Arrowhead in California on March 1, 1933.
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Now that's a movie we want to see. American actor Robert Wagner poses in 1964 for a promotional portrait for the film, The Pink Panther.
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