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CELEBRITIES SAIL AWAY aboard the great liners – DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, KATHERINE HEPBURN, CARY GRANT, GRACE KELLY, SPENCER TRACY, JOHN GILBERT, JOAN CRAWFORD, JAMES MASON

September 28, 2010 By Michael L. Grace

CELEBRITIES SAIL AWAY aboard the great liners – DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR, KATHERINE HEPBURN, CARY GRANT, GRACE KELLY, SPENCER TRACY, JOHN GILBERT, JOAN CRAWFORD, JAMES MASON…

Up until the 1960s, many celebrities, executives, tourists, etc., still sailed by passenger ship. Here are publicity photos of arrivals and departures.

Actress Joan Crawford Posing with Husband Alfred Steele and Children

Returning From Business And Pleasure Trip. Businessman Alfred Steele and his actress wife, Joan Crawford, pose with their children after their arrival here Aug. 6 aboard the liner United States. The children are twins Cathy (Left) and Cindy, 11, and Sonny, 8. The Steeles have just returned from a combined business and vacation trip in Europe. 1960s.

Cary Grant with Dyan Cannon and Their Daughter Jennifer arrive on the RMS Canberra.

British-born Hollywood actor Cary Grant, his actress-wife, Dyan Cannon, and their seven-month old baby daughter, Jennifer, are shown aboard the P & O Orient Lines’ S.S. Canberra at Southampton dock prior to sailing home to Los Angeles. The Grants have been in Britain fro several weeks on a private visit. September 17, 1966

Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Salvador Dali and the Windsors aboard the SS United States

May 14, 2009 By Michael L. Grace Leave a Comment

Gary Cooper and family. From an ad in Holiday Magazine – 1950s.

The SS United States, when it came to passengers, had a lot of cruise and social history. The list of celebrities, artists, musicians and heads of state that have sailed this great trans-Atlantic liner in it’s 1950′s heyday is impressive (the likes of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marlon Brando, Salavador Dali, Kim Novak, Cary Grant, President Harry Truman, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper)…That alone is enough to declare this ship a historical treasure.

The SS United States was the brainchild of one of the world’s foremost marine architects, William Francis Gibbs. His dream was to build a passenger ship that was faster, safer and more technologically advanced than anything else afloat.