# Most Beautiful Actress of the 1930s

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**Created:** [May 30, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-actress-of-the-1930s/498157 "2009-05-30T13:33:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-actress-of-the-1930s/498157/61 "2009-08-31T12:49:15Z")

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William Powell was _suave_. With a capital swaaaaaa.

I’m not seeing the Dorothy Hyson, either. But I was just thinking about this thread the other day, because that’s the kind of person I am, and I went to my copy of \*The Films of Ronald Colman \*and found a picture of Mr. Colman (who was even more suave than Mr. Powell) with Ann Harding in _Condemned_, an early 1929 talkie in which Mr. Colman is a prisoner on Devil’s Island and Miss Harding is the warden’s wife who loves him enough to help him escape, because he is so very suave.

I have seen that film and the picture in this book is far better than anything I have been able to find of Miss Harding on the Internet. She is ethereal and obviously too good for the warden.

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