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After a year-long courtship and a three-month engagement, Jacqueline Bouvier, 24, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, 36, are married on Sept. 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island, in what many regard as one of the 20th century’s true “fairy tale” weddings.

Here, LIFE.com presents a series of photos from that day — most of them rare, a few of them famous — by LIFE magazine’s Lisa Larsen.

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One windy day in the Sahara 1 (by jujubier)

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Happy Birthday Jim Morrison.

Never-published photo — Jim Morrison leaps onstage during a Doors concert at New York’s legendary but short-lived Fillmore East, where everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Jefferson Airplane performed. “Our live concerts are totally different from our records,” Doors drummer John Densmore told the LIFE writer at the time. “I mean, it’s theater.”

(see more — Jim Morrison: Life with the Doors)

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Eleanor Roosevelt, young but still regal in white.

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A woman carried a bag as she harvested chrysanthemums in a field at a flower plantation in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, China.

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Over the years, LIFE’s legendary photographers enjoyed unprecedented access to the private lives of the biggest stars in the world, watching them as they ate their meals, played with their children, read their books — and even tucked themselves into bed.

Here, some of the most memorable photographs that resulted from those intimate moments.

Pictured: Monroe was an avid reader of 20th-century literature and was often photographed curling up with a book, as in this shot taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at her Hollywood home in 1953.

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Movement. Emotion. In sports, both factors are constantly in flux, making the role of — and the challenge faced by — the photographer something of a contradiction: How to capture, freeze, distill that fluid intensity in one signature image?

Over the decades, LIFE photographers embraced that contradiction, and time after time emerged with pictures that illuminated, delighted, and thrilled the magazine’s millions of readers.

Pictured: In this photograph by George Silk, 14-year-old diver Kathy Flicker’s perfect 10-point entry into the waters of a pool at Princeton University’s Dillion Gym. Silk lowered the water level and set up a half-dozen flash units to get this shot.

(see more — LIFE at 75 Classic Sports Shots)

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The 1950s seemed to produce blonde-bombshell sex symbols like they were coming off an assembly line.

Jayne Mansfield (herself unfairly derided as a Marilyn Monroe clone) parodied the trend in this 1957 photo, relaxing in a pool filled with plastic hot-water bottles modeled after her own bikini-clad physique.

(see more — The Sexiest LIFE Photos)

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A farmer aired corn in her yard in Xiguo Village, Jiaozuo City, in central China’s Henan Province.