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As the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular kicks off once again in New York City, LIFE looks back at the day-to-day lives of first-year Rockettes five long decades ago.

Ridiculously cute kids dial a phone number set up by FAO Schwarz and speak directly to 'Santa,' laying out their wishes for the holiday.

A visit to the world's oldest school for would-be Santas, and photos of men learning to be all the Santa they can be

In the summer of 1946, LIFE photographer Martha Holmes visited the set of a movie destined for immortality: 'It's a Wonderful Life'

In the midst of one of most unsettled winters in decades, LIFE.com features photos of winter scenery and winter fashions in Quebec, Canada.

The multi-talented performer turns 80 on Oct. 1, 2015

The French chanteuse was born 100 years ago on Dec. 19, 1915

Notes found in LIFE's archives lend new depths of meaning to Margaret Bourke-White's photos of the partition of India and Pakistan

These photographs were taken for a 1943 issue of LIFE, but the magazine chose to crop most of them

They scorned frog legs, drank Coca-Cola and studied Parisian charm. LIFE photographer Gordon Parks captured their carefree European lives, and experienced a new kind of freedom there, as well

Rare photographs of Gene Kelley in France in 1960, creating a ballet for the storied Paris Opera.

LIFE presents photos celebrating the amazing spacecraft known as the lunar module, from drawing board to the surface of the moon.

Remembering Ol' Blue Eyes in honor of the centennial of his birth on Dec. 12, 1915

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LIFE opens a window on Sinatra's famously guarded private world, as well as the Chairman's own take on his celebrity and his music

A towering cultural figure in his native India and one of the very first (and still one of the very few) Indian musicians to win...

LIFE presents classic photos from Hawaii and the mainland in the aftermath of the 1941 attack.