Helen Mirren Whoops It Up at Heathrow, 1969

Helen Mirren At Heathrow

English actress Helen Mirren, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, waiting with her luggage at London Airport (now Heathrow), 4th January 1969. (Photo by Dove/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

This is how I, too, arrive at and depart from all airports.

Eric Porter And Helen Mirrren

English actors Eric Porter (1928 - 1995) and Helen Mirren, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, at London Airport (now Heathrow), 4th January 1969. (Photo by Dove/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

And who doesn't demonstrate their ability to dance a jig and pat themselves on the head simultaneously whilst waiting for a taxi?

Porter And Mirrren

English actress Helen Mirren lights a cigarette for fellow RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) actor, Eric Porter (1928 - 1995), at London Airport (now Heathrow), 4th January 1969. (Photo by Dove/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1969 was a super year for both smoking AND hats.

Eric Porter and Helen Mirren

We all, obviously, know loads about Helen Mirren, but Eric Porter was a reasonably successful British actor who unfortunately died of colon cancer in 1995. His Wiki has a fat paragraph about his personal life, which is a good goal for all of us, and which has an internal argument about whether or not he was gay. No matter what, he had snappy taste in scarves.

Stars of the Royal Shakespeare Company, actor Eric Porter and actress Helen Mirren, at London Airport, London, 1969. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

There is something comforting about how Helen Mirren has looked like Helen Mirren for more than fifty years.