Category: Classic Beauty

Pretty much everything about Carole Landis was tragic:  her early life, her love life, and her death by suicide at age 31.  But there was nothing tragic about her looks:

Exquisite.

One hundred and nine movies, forty-five years in show business:  that would be Mary Astor, who started in silent movies, almost never made it to talkies (because of her deep, “masculine” voice), and was an accomplished classical pianist.  She also loved men, and her private (and very explicit) diary nearly caused an explosion in Hollywood when it came to light.

But none of that’s important.  This is:

And then later with the ugly hairstyles of the era, but still exquisitely beautiful:

No wonder they all fell for her.

Straddling, so to speak, the silent- and talkies era of movies, it’s worth remembering that the tiny Clara Bow was one of the top three movie actresses of the period.  She was a redhead, although tragically, she never appeared in a color movie.  And she was a hell-raiser with a voracious sexual appetite.

The “It” Girl, indeed.

Let it be known, if it isn’t already blindingly obvious already, that I find French actresses wonderfully sexy — and Corinne Calvet is most certainly one of them.

And those are just the head shots.  The rest is equally sumptuous:

Oui.  Oh, oui.

It says something that after all these years have passed, and no new movies made with her in them, that Catwoman Julie Newmar still holds the fascination of so many men.  That said, however:

Definitely quite kittenish:

Except when she’s anything but.

Purr purr purr.

Sensational.

At the height of her popularity, flame-haired Debra Paget received fan mail in quantities only exceeded by Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.  This may be the reason:

Or maybe there were two more:

Whatever the reasons, they’re all equally good.

No wonder Elvis Presley fell in love with her.