31 Wonderfully Old Photos of Famous People From Back in the Day

John Summers • Contributor

Oct 28, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Time stops for no one, not even for the rich and famous. One day you are a teenager goofing around in front of the camera in your parents living room, and the next moment you are one of the richest people on earth. One second you are nervous about taking your yearbook photo and the next you have become a rock and roll legend. It's fun to look back at old pictures of famous people and see them as they were before their life had become something else entirely.

A young Barbara Streisand riding her bike with her brother, not aware of the crazy twists and turns her life is going to have in the next couple of years or a 6 year old Robert Plant posing for a school photo, oblivious to the exciting journey his life is about to take him on. We just wonder what brought Iggy Pop and 'Penn & Teller' to pose for the same picture.

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Marilyn Monroe during the 'Love Happy' movie tour, June 1949. She was 23 here.

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Baby Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken, 1975

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Anthony Hopkins testing masks for his role as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, 1990.

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Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford dancing together at the Deauville Film Festival party in 1977.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger has a deep, meaningful conversation with a camel in Israel, 1977.

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Jayned Mansfield with daughters Mariska Hargitay and Jayne Marie.

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10 year old Barbara Streisand with her brother Sheldon in Brooklyn, New York 1952

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Vincent Price and his son Barret Price play cowboys, mid 1940s.

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Ron Howard and Mickey Dolenz on the set of Happy Days.

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Although we know Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli, he wasn't the only guy up for the part. It was a dead heat between Henry and Mickey.
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The Beatles and their sons at roughly the the same ages.

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A young Bjork, with that unmistakable smile.

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Elijah Wood and McCauley Culkin clowning around on the set of The Good Son in 1993.

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young stud Danny Trejo!

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A young Francis Ford Coppola

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Jenna Fischer working at Long John Silvers, 1990.

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Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor

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Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack, Johnny Depp and a blow up doll cruising the streets in a convertible.

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Ron Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, 1981.

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Iggy Pop, Penn Jillette, Steve Forbert Raymond Teller, and David Bowie,1985.

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Young Raymond Teller in his former life as a Latin Teacher,

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Robin Williams, 1969. So calm.

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Simon Pegg as droog and Jonathan George as the Joker, Halloween 1990

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Mr. T was the official White House Santa in 1983, here with Nancy Reagan

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Rick James and Mike Tyson.

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Robert Plant, age 6.

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Trent Reznor (second from left) plays sax in his high school marching band

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Samuel L. Jackson with a full head of hair.

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Sid and Nancy backstage with a pile of kids at a holiday concert fundraiser.

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Wee baby Chris Farley

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The whole cast of Monty Python on tour at the Hollywood Bowl, 1982.

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Teenage Cher's mugshot. She was arrested at age 13 for "borrowing" a friends car.

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