Category: Classic Beauty

I’d never heard of Italian beauty queen and movie star Rosalba Neri, nor do I recall ever seeing one of the movies in which she appeared.  My loss.

And in color:

Yowzer.

One of the several ingenue actresses of the era, Hayley Mills was always too much the “girl next door”, despite having all the attributes, because everyone around her nurtured and maintained the image (like they did with Julie Andrews) — and not the least because her father wouldn’t let her play the title role in Lolita.

That’s not to say she wasn’t beautiful, both as a young girl and then a teenager.

And in color:

And surprise surprise, she turned out to be a gorgeous older woman, too.

That was her in her sixties, and not in the Sixties.

Lovely.

There are many things to love about German-born Barbara Bouchet.  For me, it’s those eyes…

Not that the rest of her isn’t wonderful:

A couple more, to get the full effect, so to speak:

And at age 80, she’s still gorgeous.

People who weren’t around at the time, or who weren’t aware of Brigitte Bardot probably cannot understand the effect she had on the world in the early 1960s.  She literally defined the term “sex kitten”, and many of those who followed her in that appellation simply don’t compare.

Consider:

She simply exuded sex appeal, and was the object of many a callow lad’s fantasies.  And I was no exception.

Brit actress Dawn Addams was one of those beauties who wasn’t a star or anything like that:  just someone who made our lives a little better by being beautiful every time we looked at her.  Proof thereof:

More?   Why not?

Did I mention her red hair?

Exquisite.