LIFE With Famous Moms

LIFE magazine photos of famous mothers with their children.

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Shirley MacLaine and her daughter, Sachi Parker, in 1959

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Sophia Loren with her son, Carlo Ponti, Jr., in 1969

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Mia Farrow reads to her children on Martha's Vineyard in 1974

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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 show, Memphis, Tenn., 1949.

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