Here's a selection of 19 lovely vintage photos of famous moms (Jackie Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine) with their kids, famous kids (Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren) with their moms and, in a few instances, famous kids with their famous moms.
According to LIFE magazine, the focus of the gallery is most decidedly not meant to suggest that famous moms are any more worthy of notice than any other mothers anywhere in the world who feed, clothe, encourage, protect, challenge and, ultimately, unconditionally love their children. Rather, this gallery is a simple acknowledgement that we're more or less fascinated by fame.
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| Jackie Kennedy reads to her daughter, Caroline, in Hyannis Port, Mass., in 1960. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Judy Garland holds her daughter, Liza, at home in Hollywood in 1946. (Martha Holmes—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra with her daughter, Elizabeth Frances, in Rome in 1962. (Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Elizabeth Taylor and her mother, Sara, in 1948. (Mark Kauffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Shirley MacLaine and her daughter, Sachi Parker, in 1959. (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| The great American contralto Marian Anderson kisses her mother after a concert in Philadelphia in 1937. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee holds her 4-year-old son, Erik Lee Kirkland, during a stopover in her traveling carnival (George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Shirley Temple with her daughter, Lori, in Atherton, California, in 1957. (Leonard McCombe—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Ingrid Bergman and her daughter, Pia Lindstrom, in 1959. (Leonard McCombe—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Sophia Loren with her son, Carlo Ponti, Jr., in 1969. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Sophia Loren (right) poses with her mother (center) and her sister, Maria, in 1957. (Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Zsa Zsa Gabor and her daughter, Francesca, at home in Bel Air, 1951. (Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Joan Crawford and two of her children, Christina and Christopher, on the beach, Monterey, California, 1945. (Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy with her children, 1961. (Leonard McCombe—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Jane Fonda and her daughter, Vanessa, in California, 1971. (Bill Ray—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Nancy Reagan with Ron Reagan in Pacific Palisades, Calif., in 1965. (Bill Ray—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Natalie Wood and her mother at home, 1945. (Martha Holmes—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Peggy Lee gets a goodnight kiss from her 4-year-old daughter Nicki, 1948. (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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| Mia Farrow reads to her children on Martha's Vineyard in 1974. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |