50+ Fabulous Photos Of Actresses Riding A Bicycle

Joan Leslie riding a bike, waves hello.

Margaret Livingston riding a bike, waves hello. On the lot in 1924, three years before

Mary Pickford riding a bike.

Phyllis Ruth riding a bike, Carole Landis skitches on skates.

Mary Pickford riding a bike.

Mabel Normand riding a bike.

Marguerite Chapman, with a flower in her hair, and Leslie Brooks, wearing a bow, take to their bikes.

Dorothy Morris and Frances Rafferty, both signed to MGM in 1941, cycle around town.

Claudia Cardinale veers from the path (and is about to crash down a slope) in a scene from 1966’s Universal Pictures thriller, Blindfold. Here’s the snipe:

Annabella, the French actress born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier, takes a Sunday morning spin with her dogs Lady and Julie alongside.

Jean Howard and Irene Hervey take to their side-by-side “sociable” bicycle, or buddy bike, or side tandem, riding to work on the MGM lot back in 1933.

Jan Sterling offers a hearty farewell as she wheels away on her bike, one of eight “Lady Behave — On a Bicycle” cycling safety tip photos the Ace in the Hole actress shot in 1951.

Ginger Rogers cycles around Monterey Park, California, on a break from RKO Radio Pictures’ 1940 melodrama.

Daliah Lavi sails down a road in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, during a break making the 1965 Joseph Conrad adaptation Lord Jim.

Joan Leslie heads for the market, on a break from shooting the 1947 Eagle-Lion Studios noir, Repeat Performance.

One of Riding a Bike earliest photos, here’s Kathleen Key doing some indoor cycling at home.

Carol Channing, photographed in London in 1979, when she starred in the Hello, Dolly! revival at the Drury Lane.

Pat Clark gives a cheerful wave as she riding the backlot at Warner Bros.

Barbara Stanwyck cycles down a country lane thinking about all the amazing photographs on Riding a Bike, the site that celebrates movie stars on their bicycles.

Gail Patrick cycles past a MobilGas station on a Hollywood street, March, 1942. That year she starred in Fox’s Tales of Manhattan and MGM’s We Were Dancing.

Madonna Ciccone, pop star, actress and director, riding a bike — a Trek — around Beverly Hills in March, 1991.

Lupino pedals around her neighborhood. The year is 1941, when The Sea Wolf, the Michael Curtiz-directed Warners adaptation of Jack London’s high seas yarn, opened in theaters.

Luana Anders, bike messenger-turned-actress, riding with her sketch book in a scene from Life Begins at 17, a 1958 Columbia Picture that began its life as The Teenage Story.

Singer and actress Frances Langford, a star of the Golden Age of Radio and a co-star with Eleanor Powell in 1936’s Born to Dance, riding a bike “about the grounds of her Beverly Hills home”

Jan Sterling cycling around the Universal backlot, on a break from shooting Kathy O’, the 1958 comedy about a child star (Patty McCormack) and the reporter (Sterling) who breaks through the movie publicist’s plot to hide the kid actress’ real mega-bratty personality.

Rita Gam, riding around town in the spring of 1963, when she was busy with films (Sinners Go to Hell), TV (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Uncle Vanya) and theater

Carol White, all of 16 and looking pretty glum, leads the cycling exodus from the Drayton Green Primary School, West Ealing, where 1959’s comedy Carry On Teacher had its location shoots.

Ina Bauer, German figure skater who invented the Ina Bauer Element move, riding along a Berlin byway in 1961.

Deanna Durbin on her bike, around 1938, when the singer and actress and teen star was shooting Mad About Music at Universal

Maria Cuadra, Spanish television, theater and film star, out for a ride in her cycling furs, circa 1965.

Rosemary Clooney riding a bike around the Paramount lot, with gift box and handbag, on a break between numbers on 1954’s Michael Curtiz-directed musical classic, White Christmas.

Ann Fredericks riding a Sound Department bike.

Be-gowned and be-pearled on the Paramount backlot, Jill St. John riding a Monark Silver King — with a Bonanza production truck parked behind her.

Meryl Streep, in the 1998 Sony Pictures Classics release Dancing at Lughnasa. La Streep starred as sister Kate Mundy in the adaptation of the Brian Friel play, set in Between-the-Wars rural Ireland.

MGM chorines “go through their paces under the able direction of Sammy Lee, famous dance director,” in this undated photo from the studio famous for its elaborately staged musicals

Julie Bishop borrows a bike belonging to the Warner Bros. Makeup Dept.’s Pat O’Grady. The actress is on her way to work — a small role in Ida Lupino’s 1943 The Hard Way.

Mamie Van Doren, cruising the Universal studio byways in 1954.

Patricia Morison and her Daschund, out for a ride (and a run?). Morison starred in Paramount’s 1940 love-and-lust adventure, Untamed, with Ray Milland and Akim Tamiroff.

Venetia Stevenson riding the Warners backlot, with handbag, lunchbox and snappy hat.

Alice and Ellen Kessler ride a twin bike.

Diane Varsi riding a bike

Claude Jarman Jr. wheelies a bike.

Belinda Lee riding a bike.

Katharine Hepburn riding a bike.

Delia Scala riding a bike.

Grace Kelly riding a bike.

Leslie Caron riding a bike, mails a letter.

Mary Wilson and Pedro Antonio Jr. ride bikes.

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman ride bikes.

Virginia Vale riding a bike.

Doris Day riding a bike.

Whoopi Goldberg riding a bike.

Elly Koot riding a bike, wields the 1964 Miss Europe trophy.

Virna Lisi riding a bike.

Priscilla Lawson riding a bike.

Muriel Evans riding a bike, wields a mallet.

Olivia de Havilland riding a bike. Happy 99th!

Irina Demick riding a bike through a scene from the World War II D-Day drama The Longest Day.

Nina Hoss, in the title role of 2012’s Barbara, riding a bike, worriedly. The Christian Petzold-directed drama is set in 1980 East Germany and Hoss’s character, a physician, is angling to defect to the West.

Heidi Brühl, be-gloved German actress and pop star, walks her Hercules bicycle. She’s sporting the outfit she wears in the hit Bavaria Film 1960 musical, Immer will ich dir gehören.