20+ Rare Celebrity Photos From the Past We Wish We’d Seen Earlier

Nowadays with magazines, television, and the internet flooded with countless celebrities’ pictures and videos, it’s always a pleasure to see some of their rare candid pictures showing them at home, on set or in other situations hidden from the public eye. Stay with us if you want to see Audrey Hepburn during one of her early auditions, Arnold Schwarzenegger walking through Munich in his swimming trunks, Salvador Dali sunbathing on a boat and a bonus picture showing the participants of the first beauty contest in the USSR.

Here at Bright Side, we gathered truly rare pictures from the past that show scenes from celebrities’ lives only a few people have ever seen before.

1. Arnold Schwarzenegger walking through Munich in swimming trunks in order to promote his own gym, 1969

2. Elvis Presley giving a final touch to his hairdo with the help of a pocket mirror, 1956

3. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn when filming My Fair Lady in the 1960s. They had to lean rather than sit to keep their clothes neat.

4. A 12-year-old Albert Einstein, 1891

5. Brigitte Bardot with a bunch of gladioli

6. Salvador Dali sunbathing on a boat at Port Ligat, 1953

7. Robert De Niro and Catherine Scorsese (Martin Scorsese’s mother) in the 1980s.

8. Donna Summer with her new album, 1976

9. Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, 1925

10. Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando on the set of The Godfather, 1972

11. Abraham Lincoln’s “spirit photograph” by Harry Houdini in the 1920s

12. Prima ballerina, Alicia Markova, 1959

13. Kenny Baker and Muhammad Ali, 1979

14. Grace Kelly and her son Albert, 1967

15. Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg taking a break while shooting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989

16. Brad Pitt, 1988

17. Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot with some children in the 1950s

18. Audrey Hepburn during an audition in London, 1948

19. Jack Nicholson in the 1960s

20. Claudia Cardinale, 1962

21. Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver, 1984

Bonus: The first beauty contest in the USSR, 1988

What picture surprised you the most? Why? Feel free to share your impressions in the comments.