Category: Classic Beauty

I know that Hazel Brooks was born in South Africa, but like me she got Over Here as soon as she could.  Unlike me, she was beautiful and became a movie actress.

Stunning.

Silent / talkies star Colleen Moore, I think, typifies both the look and the ethos of that most interesting era.

And when she moved away from the “flapper” look:  still more beautiful.

One last note about Colleen Moore:  unlike so many actors and actresses of her (or any) era, she actually learned how to keep and grow her income through careful investment.  She even wrote a book about it.  Gorgeous and intelligent, by golly.

It’s just a tragedy that most of her movies, like so many of the early stars, have been lost so we can’t appreciate them fully.

As much a pinup as an actress, Elaine Stewart (originally a little Jewish girl from New Jersey) was definitely out of the ordinary:

See:  some fine things can come out of Joizee.

Louise Brooks was quite probably the sexiest of all the silent screen actresses.  Her life ended up being… interesting, not to say tragic.  But I’m endlessly fascinated by her… and Pandora’s Box  (excerpt) is easily the greatest silent movie ever made, because of her.  (If you want the movie, be warned that it’s only available in PAL format.)

Astonishing.  Diary of a lost girl, indeed.

I’ve never seen any of her silent- or talkie movies, but I have to admit that I am fascinated by this willowy Brit actress (born in Germany to a Russian mother:  why not British?).

She even appeared in a commercial — some time, I suspect, before it became popular.

Classically beautiful.

Somewhat more modern, Stella Stevens is still a classic beauty:

Didn’t look too bad in color either:

Of course, there was the Playboy thing:

…and still sexy at 60-ish:

Let’s hear it for the girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi…