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Getty Images/Gene Lester
1945
Actor Humphrey Bogart, at the racetrack in Santa Anita, California, c. 1945.
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Shutterstock.com/Sipa Press/REX
1955
Singer and film star Elvis Presley, during the BBC documentary The Burger and the King: The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley, c. 1955.
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Image courtesy of the Advertising Archives/© Birds Eye
1981
Boxer Muhammad Ali appearing in a UK television advertisement for Birds Eye’s Quarter Pounder, 1981.
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Visual Icon/Quentin Tarantino/Miramax Films
1994
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, eating a Big Kahuna burger, in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, 1994.
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Getty Images//Eric Charbonneau/WireImage for Vanity Fair Magazine
2007
Helen Mirren eating an In-N-Out Cheeseburger at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, 2007.
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Getty Images//Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive
2014
Mariah Carey at McDonald's, Times Square, New York City, 2014.
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Courtesy of Phaidon
The World is Your Burger: A Cultural History by David Michaels, $39.95 at phaidon.com.