# The best looking woman born 1922-1942. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544 "2010-07-04T19:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/21 "2010-07-05T00:22:50Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Grace Kelly This thread is over. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/22 "2010-07-05T02:07:46Z")
Even though the thread has been declared over — more than once, it would appear — I’d still like to submit [Jean Simmons](http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Simmons,%20Jean/Annex/NRFPT/Annex%20-%20Simmons,%20Jean%20%28Spartacus%29_NRFPT_01.jpg). (IIRC, I spent a good part of [The Big Country](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051411/) wondering what possessed Gregory Peck to prefer Carroll Baker. Fortunately, he came to his senses by the time they rode off into the proverbial sunset.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/23 "2010-07-05T02:12:08Z")
Natalie Wood. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/24 "2010-07-05T02:38:08Z")
Named in this thread have been Tatyana Samojlova, Lauren Bacall, Natalies Wood and Portman, all of whom with Jewish ancestry; which may indicate that beautiful Jewish women are to be found in greater proportion than their share of the overall population ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/25 "2010-07-05T04:17:37Z")
Alas, Donna Reed was born in 1921, a year too early for this thread: [![](http://www.eeweems.com/capra/_imagery/_wonderful_life/wonderful_donnareed_470.jpg) ](http://www.eeweems.com/capra/_imagery/_wonderful_life/wonderful_donnareed_470.jpg) Otherwise I, too, would vote for Ingrid Bergman, even though she was born in 1915: [http://www.cinemusica.com/shop/images/ingrid\_bergman\_1.jpg](http://www.cinemusica.com/shop/images/ingrid_bergman_1.jpg) [http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/672/Ingrid\_Bergman\_in\_Casablanca\_trailer.jpg](http://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/672/Ingrid_Bergman_in_Casablanca_trailer.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/26 "2010-07-05T04:31:08Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > I’ve always found Yoko Ono attractive . . . Is there another Yoko Ono other than the dog that broke up the Beatles? My vote goes to [Vanessa Redgrave](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://sexualityinart.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/vanessa-redgrave-victor-skrebneski-isadora-cover.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/victor-skrebneski-heaven-or-hell-what-a-ride/&usg=__lK_G0G0ndYbAmqaw9RM308M-F9E=&h=500&w=372&sz=49&hl=en&start=11&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=XeLhv4sHd45B1M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvanessa%2Bredgrave%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Ds%26tbs%3Disch:1), though Sophia Loren wins in the “beauty-that-keeps-on-giving” category. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/27 "2010-07-05T04:40:13Z")
[Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](http://media.photobucket.com/image/bridget%20bardot/Dennieaa/855d095a.jpg?o=55) This one is easy. Bridget Bardot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/28 "2010-07-05T04:51:14Z")
Making it just under the wire, [Genevieve Bujold](http://www.lestudio1.com/sitebuilder/images/VittorioGenevieveBujold1-334x478.jpg) (born July 1, 1942) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/29 "2010-07-05T04:56:16Z")
[http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ecarr1088.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/jane-fonda-barbarella-photograph-c101022762.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://ecarr1088.wordpress.com/barbarella/&h=450&w=363&sz=29&tbnid=Z8Up8kuxnp6aGM:&tbnh=250&tbnw=202&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djane%2Bfonda%2Bbarbarella%2Bpictures&usg=\_\_pUsck8rZ20zHKricSIEUxJt24pI=&sa=X&ei=pGQxTPreMcH9nQfx38WFBA&ved=0CBYQ9QEwAA](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ecarr1088.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/jane-fonda-barbarella-photograph-c101022762.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://ecarr1088.wordpress.com/barbarella/&h=450&w=363&sz=29&tbnid=Z8Up8kuxnp6aGM:&tbnh=250&tbnw=202&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djane%2Bfonda%2Bbarbarella%2Bpictures&usg=__pUsck8rZ20zHKricSIEUxJt24pI=&sa=X&ei=pGQxTPreMcH9nQfx38WFBA&ved=0CBYQ9QEwAA) And Jane Fonda in Barbarella days. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/30 "2010-07-05T04:58:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Named in this thread have been Tatyana Samojlova, Lauren Bacall, Natalies Wood and Portman, all of whom with Jewish ancestry Natalie Wood wasn’t Jewish, despite persistent rumors. She was Russian Orthodox. Here’s a [picture](http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/woodnatalie.jpg) of her grave with an orthodox cross on it ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/31 "2010-07-05T15:44:03Z")
Well, if the OP started off with Mary Tyler Moore, then in keeping with the ‘girl next door who’s a knock-out’ look I counter with [Elizabeth Montgomery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Montgomery) (YOB 1938). Ok, not sultry like some of the aforementioned actresses, but very attractive at her peak (and I didn’t realize she passed away 15 years ago!). I think she was quite attractive even as the ‘enemy’ solider in her dirty, torn uniform in the Twilight Zone episode ‘Two’ (probably the mini-skirt and fashionable boots that all female soliders wore on the battlefield during that period…). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/32 "2010-07-05T17:21:30Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [Photo Storage](http://media.photobucket.com/image/bridget%20bardot/Dennieaa/855d095a.jpg?o=55) This one is easy. Bridget Bardot. Look closely: she was wall-eyed and could eat corn through a picket fence. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/33 "2010-07-05T18:10:42Z")
(These youngsters are OK, but I prefer the older ladies (in their youth): Hedy Lamarr, Paulette Goddard, Gloria Stewart (old lady in Titanic) and Carole Lombard. All of them were stunning when young. Carole Lombard could step into a movie today without a thing changed.) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/34 "2010-07-05T18:31:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > the dog that broke up the Beatles? You’re thinking of Paul McCartney. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/35 "2010-07-05T18:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Look closely: she [Bridget Bardot] was wall-eyed and could eat corn through a picket fence. I’ve a feeling **gonzomax** wasn’t looking at her face. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_a\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/36 "2010-07-05T19:58:46Z")
I’ve always liked [Angela Lansbury](http://www.absolutenow.com/photos/10104356.html). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/37 "2010-07-05T20:25:32Z")
I’m gonna go with [Barbara Eden](http://www.costumes.org/history/20thcent/1960s/movies/1960barbaraeden.jpg). Young [Shirley Maclaine](http://woodenspears.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/shirley_maclaine.jpg) deserves a mention. As does [Bettie Page](http://jaksview3.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/picbettiepagefaceforblog.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/38 "2010-07-05T20:39:04Z")
> [@Not\_a\_Platypus](#): > > I’ve always liked [Angela Lansbury](http://www.absolutenow.com/photos/10104356.html). Wow. She looks like a porcelain doll. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/39 "2010-07-05T20:45:00Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > And I still think Elizabeth Taylor can look good if she’s fixed up to show off. But there was a day (_Butterfield 8_ and _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ and _A Place in the Sun_) when there was no better looking woman on the planet. Absolutely yes. So breathtaking. Also agree with Natalie Wood. Vivien Leigh was a little too old to make the cut. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544/40 "2010-07-05T21:04:16Z")
**Spoke** , I certainly can’t argue with your pick of Barbara Eden, but I’m not sure if I would agree if that picture were all I’d seen of her. I mean, she looks nice there, but it doesn’t come close to doing her justice. [Any of the pics of her as Jeannie](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=i%20dream%20of%20jeannie&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi) are better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-looking-woman-born-1922-1942/545544.md?page=3)