Joan Crawford, before her eyebrows took over.
What? I can’t imagine what you guys see in…
Oh. Hedy. Never mind.
Another vote for Grace Kelly. Her entrancein Rear Window gets me every time.
Beautiful no doubt, but to me she always seemed made of plastic. I didn’t care much for her acting ability (or think she had much of it.) But that’s just me.
For a shorter time, I think, than many of the others. Her overbite was a bit too much, and she didn’t wear well. In Black Widow, only ten years after Laura, she was completely forgettable (in a supporting role too).
I give you Dorothy Dandridge, she was breathtaking. It’s too bad we didn’t get to see her in more films.
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I have a hard time finding any of the women with those plucked penciled in eyebrows attractive. Unfortunate fashion choice and fairly ubiquitous back then.
The aforementioned Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth. I’ll add Myrna Loy
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That’s still a hugely unattractive and all-too-common fashion choice.
When Myrna Loy was 16, around 1920, she modeled for the semi-nude statue outside Venice High School. She had…quite the figure, even at that young age.
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I had no idea who she was, only a name to me; wish I had known of her before now.
I disagree with the point here (find the mother more attractive than the daughter), but Isabella said the most charming thing I ever heard: “My mother was beautiful and my father was brilliant . . . and I have been blessed with my mother’s brains and my father’s looks.” I was just getting ready to loathe her as stuck up when her meaning broke through my slow moving mind and I fell for her hard! Perhaps not an elite in the pantheon of beautiful women from Hollywood, but a lovely woman who is funny and charming – I would have married her on the spot! (And I like her dark complexion too.)
Margaret Hamilton
Ethel Merman
Katharine Hepburn, the year she made The Little Minister
Really? Seems kind of rare to me among non-Cholas. And I can’t think of a contemporary actress with those.
I didn’t see *Casablanca *until I was in college, but I was immediately smitten. Bergman was certainly lovely. She also looked her best in Hitchcock’s Notorious.
My other old-movie crush was Donna Reed in It’s A Wonderful Life:
I’m sitting at table 8. You?
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Table 7, where Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn are hanging out, and I don’t even much care, because, hey, that’s also where Natalie Wood is.
Table 7 is… formidable, there’s no doubt about that, to be sure. Hell, you didn’t even mention the woman my father claimed was the loveliest actress in his day, Elizabeth Taylor.
Move over.
How about the beautiful Merle Oberon? She passed for white and hid her Eurasian origins.
Table 10 has the best, most cutting, conversation. None are left unskewered. Davis, Bankhead, and Hepburn spend the evening trying to one-up each other with devastating references to all the other ladies sexual peccadilloes and casting call tales.