There are lots of female stars of the 20s, 30s, and 40s that I have never found attractive: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Betty Grable, for instance, never did much for me. But there are a few I have always found very hot.
The other night I watched Duck Soup and Horse Feathers for roughly the millionth time, but the first time in maybe a decade or more.
I had forgotten what a babe Raquel Torres was. (This picture really doesn’t do her justice, but it was the best one I could find online.) The gown she wears in the first scene of the movie is low cut, revealing, and HOT! And her accent is very charming, too.
And then I got a load of Thelma Todd in Horse Feathers. (Also not a great picture, unfortunately.) She’s not quite as voluptuous as Raquel, but still smokin’! And she spends most of the movie in a relatively revealing negligée. I like the scene in which she’s watching Chico play the piano. (The poor girl died in mysterious circumstances at the age of 30.)
Probably my all-time favorite is Carole Lombard. Beautiful, sexy, and funny! She’s just wonderful in To Be or Not To Be and My Man Godfrey. (Another life tragically cut short: only 33 when she died in a plane crash.)
Who are yours? (Pictures will help make your case.)
Greta (who for some odd reason was the focus of a posthumous 100th birthday festivity even though her birthday isn’t until September. (Her friend Gore Vidal was the keynote speaker.)
Me, I"m madly in love with Bogie. Classy, intelligent, sweet, and a sense of humor to boot, with a good dash of hard-boiledness thrown in. sigh They don’t make’em like that anymore.
I think IreneDunne is quite the fine lady. The final bedroom scene with her and Cary Grant in The Awful Truth is both very funny and very sexy. It’s rather sad she doesn’t get mentioned even half as much as her comedic contemporaries like Lombard and Loy.
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