No one will ever beat Cary Grant. I think he was at his peak at around age 50, the “To Catch A Thief” era. A dazzling movie star, another creature on the extinct species list.
Well, if that’s what you consider the handsomest of them all, you do you.
In less, um, idiosyncratic choices, though, as long as we’re going back as far as the silent-film era, there’s a reason Rudolph Valentino became essentially the first male sex symbol of the movies. Wow.
If you like them a bit more British-quirky-looking, though, then before there were the Day-Lewises and the Cumberbatches there was Leslie Howard.
Valentino gets my vote for what it’s worth. Some pretty tough competition though.
Leslie Howard has always gotten my pulse racing. Too bad he died way, way, way too young.
Hey! I’m allowed to have a “type!”
(Young Boris was A looker, if you like rugged dudes. Scroll down to the second photo.)
http://www.radiospirits.info/2013/11/23/happy-birthday-boris-karloff/
Danny Kaye for me.
But, really, Humphrey Bogart is hard down ugly. I’m not sure how he got into the movies.
Oh, IMHO.
Agreed!
My old-time Hollywood crushes - These guys were gorgeous when they first started out.
Cary Grant
Gary Cooper
Gregory Peck
Robert Taylor
Bacall made him look better. A little.
OMG people!! Errol Flynn!!! Hands down!
Gary Cooper (not the top image). Perfection.
I was about 20 when cable tv started finally showing classic movies, and I loved them. And when they showed ‘Captain Blood’, omg, I fell so in love withe Errol Flynn, GORGEOUS!
Charlie Chaplin, in some of his early photos, was not bad!
Yup on Gary Cooper, but Nope, that image is at least 10 years after silents were over.
Yup. You should note that part of that link (the first image) might be not safe for work. But if you click, scroll down to the second photo. And then keep scrolling, it only gets better. Even when he was much older he was dazzling in romantic roles. Look at “Love in the Afternoon” if you have any doubts.
Just watched that. Cooper actually took my eyes off Audrey Hepburn.