Seems as though every time I post a pic of a slender women, there are a jillion couple of comments about feeding the poor starving girl a pasta dinner or two.
Well, today’s totty doesn’t need any of that. Her name is Rasha Kirmani, and she’s apparently quite popular in India and online. Enjoy.
Probably one of the better examples of the femme fatale in the movies, Charlotte Rampling evoked the Swinging Sixties — the last few years thereof at any rate — as much as anyone.
It helped that she was, and still is, a brilliant actress — equally fluent in French and English — and so has never had to get by just by showing off her body.
Although she was never shy about that, either:
And in color:
Add to that a glorious, sexy contralto like Lauren Bacall’s…
…which means (like Bacall) pure sex appeal at any age.
And then there’s that “showing off the body” thing:
Last weekend I watched Hitchcock’s brilliant movie To Catch A Thief, and it’s always a pleasure to gaze upon the mid-1950s Grace Kelly and her Sunbeam Alpine sports car:
…not to mention the glorious scenery of the Midi:
However, in all this ogling, a random brain cell fastened on the other cutie in the movie, the teenager Danielle, who has a crush on the (much-older) Cary Grant.
In real life, her name was Brigitte Auber, and in the movie, she’s given the tomboy treatment — no doubt to reinforce the illusion of her age (she was actually nearly 30 when the movie was made), as much as to make her less alluring than the leading lady.
Of course, outside that look, she was a lot more interesting:
But Brigitte’s real claim to fame is that she helped turn her then-boyfriend, one Alain Delon, into a movie star.
By the way, Brigitte Auber will be turning 100 in a month’s time.
Was there ever a sexier woman than Lauren Bacall? I mean, that immortal scene in To Have And Have Not with Bogart — he never stood a chance, did he? — is all the more incredible when you realize that she played that sex-drenched role at age nineteen, and was yet totally believable.
(In real life, at age 17, she’d already been bonking a classmate at acting school, one Issur Danielovitch.)
You can read the back story of her sexy, sultry voice and “The Look” over here.
But right here:
And for those of you who just have to see things in color:
And when she wasn’t being all sexy ‘n sultry ‘n stuff, she was still gorgeous:
Good grief, Betty.
I see that wannabe never-was celebrity Bai Ling is going to be indiscreet:
“I just feel at this stage of my life, it’s about time to tell these fascinating stories about those men everybody knows.” [the washed-up 54-year-old actress explained]
Mind you, she’s never been known for her discretion, playing on that (inexplicable) American male “Asian fantasy chick” fetish forever.
And she’s always been the Queen Of The “Accidental Nip-Slip”:
And as for the full monty:
Probably the greatest actress never to win an Academy Award (despite five nominations!), Irene Dunne was that rarity: a beautiful, dignified and regal person both in real life and in movies, despite being most famous as a comedic actress.
I’ve seen three or four of her movies, and the best of them (The White Cliffs Of Dover, which I have on DVD) probably half a dozen times. (Also recommended: Love Affair with Charles Boyer, which I’ve only seen twice, but that’s going to be remedied soon, and White Cliffs… errrrr maybe tonight?) Also, The Awful Truth is one of the funniest comedy movies ever made. (You may thank me later.)
Anyway, here she is:
Oh, and did I mention that she also had an exquisite soprano singing voice? She wuz robbed (x5).