# Hotties from the Golden Age of Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924 "2005-04-12T03:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/41 "2005-04-12T22:48:16Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > No joke. I’m a huge gigantic fool for Robert Mitchum. Just looking at him makes me feel like he somehow just made me pregnant. > > I used to flip out over Orson Welles too, when he was in Jane Eyre. Kind of embarassing. Orson was very compelling in Jane Eyre - no reason to be embarassed. I must confess, however, that I find Rick Moranis to be kinda sexy. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/42 "2005-04-12T22:57:28Z")
I once began a serious romance when a guy I met at a party told me I looked like [Rhonda Fleming](http://www.rhondafleming.com/index.html). I’ve never been so flattered. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/43 "2005-04-12T23:26:40Z")
> [@wonderwench](#): > > Orson was very compelling in Jane Eyre - no reason to be embarassed. > > I must confess, however, that I find Rick Moranis to be kinda sexy. The first time he calls Jane into his study and makes her stand there in front of the fire place…I’m pretty sure there was no humiliating physical examination of the new employee scene there but somehow I remember one very clearly. Then later there’s a spanking scene that I can’t find again. I see it so clearly in my mind but I guess I imagined it. I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves him in that movie. I guess if he was good enough for Rita Hayworth I shouldn’t be ashamed. But it’s funny because in Lady From Shanghai I can’t work up any feelings toward him. I’m surprised nobody mentioned [Jane Greer](http://noirtexas.com/images/Actresses/Jane%20Greer/jane_greer.jpg) from Out of the Past. I think she is my idea of perfect-looking. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/44 "2005-04-12T23:36:58Z")
Yeah, Carole Lombard in _My Man Godfrey_ has definitely got something. She’s not ditzy (which is good, cause I can’t stand that), but is somehow cleverly absurd. And she gets the best closing line in movie history. A vote for [Greer Garson](http://www.wic.org/pic/ggarson.gif), too. And I would suggest that _The Big Sleep_ deserves some kind of honorary title as the first James Bond movie. Every drop-dead gorgeous woman in L.A. is throwing herself at Humphrey Bogart. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/45 "2005-04-12T23:46:38Z")
Clark Gable. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/46 "2005-04-12T23:48:18Z")
[Myrna Loy](http://us.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1385/0771_0593.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Loy,%20Myrna&seq=2)😉 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/47 "2005-04-13T00:01:15Z")
Another vote for Brooks, Loy, Charisse, Goddard, Garson, and [Malone](http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/dorothy-malone/Malone1.jpg). Some others: \*\*[Joan Blondell](http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/blondell_j2.jpg) (!) [June Duprez](http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/june-duprez/Duprez1.jpg) [Vera-Ellen](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pinups/vellen1.jpg) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/48 "2005-04-13T00:05:58Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Another vote for Brooks, Loy, Charisse, Goddard, Garson, and [Malone](http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/dorothy-malone/Malone1.jpg). > > Some others: > > \*\*[Joan Blondell](http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/blondell_j2.jpg) (!) > [June Duprez](http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/june-duprez/Duprez1.jpg) > [Vera-Ellen](http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pinups/vellen1.jpg) > \*\* Ah, yes, I was wondering if anyone would mention Joan Blondell. There’s a famous photo of her walking across a movie set stark naked with a big smile on her face. Yowzah! And I don’t know if I would call her a hottie, but I love Jean Arthur with a sick, sad, passion. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/49 "2005-04-13T00:15:26Z")
Ann Sheridan Irene Dunne Grace Kelly Myrna Loy Shirley Temple (As an adult, esp in **The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer** ) Jeanne Crain Leslie Caron (In fact, anyone who ever appeared with Cary Grant as a headliner… damned but he got some great co-stars…) ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/50 "2005-04-13T00:45:19Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > And I would suggest that _The Big Sleep_ deserves some kind of honorary title as the first James Bond movie. Every drop-dead gorgeous woman in L.A. is throwing herself at Humphrey Bogart. I think the bookshop clerk that throws herself at him looks exactly like Alicia Silverstone from Clueless. Only in the movie though, not in any photos I’ve seen of her. I hate to be attracted to Humphrey Bogart because he was somehow in style when I was a kid in the 70s and so he’s associated in my mind with macrame belts and potted ferns and orange courdory sectional couches. But he was hot so I have to grudgingly understand why he came into style in the 70s. (One thing that bothers me is that in the 70s, 1930s and 40s stuff was in style, as being so old fashioned and “golden agey” but it was only 30 years old at that time. So that means if I look back at the 70s I should be looking as far back in history as people were looking back then. And that puts my mortality into perspective which I don’t like.) ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/51 "2005-04-13T00:47:45Z")
Yeah \*_pokey_ hearin’ that loud and clear. Rather sobering. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/52 "2005-04-13T00:54:36Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > I think the bookshop clerk that throws herself at him looks exactly like Alicia Silverstone from Clueless. Only in the movie though, not in any photos I’ve seen of her. An early and memorable role for Dorothy Malone, and more than qualified for this thread. She did go blonde later in her career, but from the still photos anyway, it just wasn’t the same. And I agree about the shifting nature of nostalgia. I remember when I was a kid, my mother loved old movies. (And that was when you had to wait for _Gone With the Wind_ to come to the revival theaters.) I could never really understand what she saw in them. Now here I am on the 'net singing the praises of _My Man Godfrey_. There’s nothing wrong with old movies, I just had to find my own old movies. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/53 "2005-04-13T01:48:13Z")
> [@Rube E. Tewesday](#): > > Ah, yes, I was wondering if anyone would mention Joan Blondell. There’s a famous photo of her walking across a movie set stark naked with a big smile on her face. Yowzah! Couldn’t resist doing a Google image search for “Joan Blondell Nude” and all I can say is :eek: ! And 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/54 "2005-04-13T03:14:00Z")
Jane Russell. Wasn’t there trouble with getting her first movie _The Outlaw_ past the censors? It’s an otherwise terrible movie, but Jane Russell is great. I haven’t seen the movie, but why wasn’t she portrayed in _The Aviator_? ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/55 "2005-04-13T03:17:11Z")
> [@pokey](#): > > I think the bookshop clerk that throws herself at him looks exactly like Alicia Silverstone from Clueless. Only in the movie though, not in any photos I’ve seen of her. May I just hijack and say the two bookstores sequence in _The Big Sleep_ is brilliant and my favorite part of the movie. It goes from the unforgettable sight of Humphrey Bogart pretending to be an efeminant book nerd to that incredibly sexy scene with Dorothy Malone. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/56 "2005-04-13T03:47:24Z")
And that’s why I mentioned both Dorothy Malone and Martha Vickers earlier, and I shouldn’t have left off Sonia Darrin. Darrin was Agnes, the high-toned one who worked for the bad guys and didn’t know her books (which always made me wonder why they would run a bookstore front with people who didn’t know books). She’s very sleek. And thin. Her outfits made her waist look as tiny as a corset-bearing Victorian maiden’s. She looks thin standing next to Lauren Bacall, not an easy feat. (I had thought only Slim Keith could do that. Imagine what it took to be nicknamed Slim in those days. Anyway the connection is that fashion model Nancy Gross changed her name to Slim Keith, married Howard Hawks and recommended another fashion model to him: Lauren Bacall.) Anyway Bogie goes across the street to a real bookshop where Dorothy Malone works. She lets down her hair - literally - and Bogie’s eyes light up. She drinks too, and she closes down the store and shuts the curtains to give us a while to exercise our imaginations. Martha Vickers plays Carmen, the trampy younger daughter, who throws herself literally at Spade, showing lots of leg and tousled hair. Probably a hundred of today’s actresses could have played her part, but none of the others. Even Carole Douglas, in her only role, played a pretty librarian who caught Bogie’s eye. But actresses were already looking different post war than they did prewar. Something changes that I can’t put my finger on. My hunch is that they were taller and thinner yet curvier, with longer and more interesting hair styles but I’m not an expert on those subtleties. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/57 "2005-04-13T04:10:00Z")
Hedy Lamarr [http://www.tccandler.com/talent\_file\_hedy\_lamarr.htm](http://www.tccandler.com/talent_file_hedy_lamarr.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/58 "2005-04-13T04:52:49Z")
The young [Gregory Peck](http://www.meredy.com/peck4.jpg) was just a dreamboat. \ Heck, the old Gregory Peck wasn’t half bad either. Wonderful voice, too. Call me crazy, but I always thought [Maureen O’Sullivan and Johnny Weissmuller](http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/tarzan-jane/Jane1.jpg) were pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/59 "2005-04-13T09:05:05Z")
> [@mambocrow](#): > > Hedy Lamarr That’s Hedly. Marc ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924/60 "2005-04-13T14:00:52Z")
> [@Rube E. Tewesday](#): > > Ah, yes, I was wondering if anyone would mention Joan Blondell. There’s a famous photo of her walking across a movie set stark naked with a big smile on her face. Yowzah! > > > [@Manduck](#): > > > > Couldn’t resist doing a Google image search for “Joan Blondell Nude” and all I can say is :eek: ! And 🆒 **Manduck** , I spent an hour or so last night looking, and except for a shot of Joan in a bathtub that shows the side of her right breast, I couldn’t find anything even slightly racy. Certainly nothing like **Rube** describes. Could you please help us serious film scholars find this important historical document? For reseach purposes only, of course. Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotties-from-the-golden-age-of-movies/298924.md?page=4)