The first time Christian Berthelot experienced a caesarean birth—or any birth for that matter—was when his wife underwent an emergency C-section to save both her and their son. Berthelot felt like he was living in a parallel universe filled with confusion.

Put your scarves where you can see them and your wardrobe will have a new lease of life

In the Nov. 2, 1953 issue of LIFE, in an article titled ‘A Silver Anniversary for Walt and Mickey,’ the magazine took its readers behind the scenes at Disney.

On the anniversary of the Dec. 3, 1947, Broadway premier of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ LIFE presents photos made during rehearsals for that legendary production by photographer Eliot Elisofon.

In the summer of 1946, Martha Holmes made a series of photos on the set of a movie that would come to be celebrated as a holiday classic: Frank Capra’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’

Photos shot by the great Margaret Bourke-White for FORTUNE magazine in 1933, capturing the atmosphere in a number of New York speakeasies.

Photographs chronicling lives lived behind the scenes — by performers, musicians, technicians and their families — at the Ringling Brothers circus extravaganza in the late 1940s.

Recent reports that the world’s most wanted Nazi — a notorious sadist named Alois Brunner — died in Syria four years ago brought to mind these photos of his boss, Adolf Eichmann, awaiting execution in Israel in the early ’60s.

On Woody Allen’s 79th birthday, LIFE.com looks back at the filmmaker as a young man in 1967 New York City.

The story behind one of the most famous, harrowing and controversial images from the global pandemic.

LIFE.com presents photos of Natalie Wood in the early ’60s — a time when she had made the leap from actress to movie star and, more importantly, to formidable Hollywood player.

Discovering ‘pendulous’ birds on her turkey farm, a Texas woman turned to well-established principles of the lingerie trade. The solution? Halters for the sagging poultry.

On Tina Turner’s 75th birthday, LIFE.com presents a handful of previously unpublished photos taken in 1970 by Gjon Mili.

Thank goodness we’ve evolved as a society and as individuals to the point where ridiculous and overpriced presents are no longer on anyone’s Christmas list. Right?

Bikinis, sunbathers and dimly lit hardcore clubs; big-haired roller skaters and mohawked punk rockers — here are photos of Southern California crosscurrents, from 1969 to the early ’80s.

On his 100th birthday (b. Nov. 25, 1914, in Martinez, Calif.), LIFE remembers Joltin’ Joe with photos made in 1939 by Carl Mydans, when DiMaggio was a 24-year-old star

Fifty years after JFK’s assassination, LIFE features photos made in the hours before — as well as the moments immediately after — the killing that shocked the world.

Recalling a 1966 LIFE article that cast a cold light on a shadowy industry in which dogs were bought, stolen and sold like cogs in a vicious machine

On what would have been his 89th birthday LIFE.com shares photos — most of which never ran in LIFE magazine — of Robert Kennedy and his extended and immediate family in 1964

One of the most prolific and celebrated space artists of our time, Ron Miller, shares 33 of his own stirring, beautiful works with LIFE

For a quite stark, simple image, this reproduction of a few seconds’ worth of data on a century-old recording tape is remarkably eloquent — and surprisingly moving

Four-and-a-half decades after the Manson Family murders, here are photos of the squalor in which the killers lived

The ferocity of the Manson Family murders — and the chilling, bottomless weirdness of the Manson cult — incised a terrible, indelible black mark on the late 1960s.

A new book conveys, in a single volume, the mind-bending variety that bands, photographers, artists and designers have brought to the rock and roll album cover through the years.

Ahead of Veterans Day, both @LIFE and @TIME asked readers, via Instagram, to share photos of veterans from America’s many wars.

For six decades, and in more than 50 movies, filmmakers D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus have reinvented and reinvigorated the very nature of documentary storytelling.

Ahead of Veterans Day, both @LIFE and @TIME asked readers, via Instagram, to share photos of veterans from America’s many wars.

On Veterans Day, it’s fitting that we take a moment to recall a war story that, at its heart, is less about warfare than about the simple, indomitable power of love.

LIFE.com unapologetically celebrates what is arguably America’s true national pastime: watching TV.

LIFE.com presents a series of photos — none of which ran in LIFE magazine — of the Rev. Billy Graham from the earliest days of the legendary evangelist’s career.