One of those 1940s babes, I think Ramsay Ames had an amazing ability to look like other stars of the day such as Rosalind Russell, Lana Turner* and so on. Or maybe they just all looked alike according to the casting standards of the day. Whatever, Ramsay’s gorgeous.
Classic, indeed.
She was once described as having “a face like Grace Kelly and a body like Marilyn Monroe”. I wouldn’t go as far as that, but Rosemarie Bowe was something else.
Unusually for Hollywood, she was married to only one man — Robert Stack — and she pretty much quit acting when the two kids came along, only going back once they had grown.
Lovely.
We’ve already looked at her sister, but Constance Bennett was nothing to sneeze at, either:
And she aged pretty nicely, too. Here she is at 55, five years before her death:
She recently won some award for her acting career, and brushed it off as “just luck”.
Have mercy.
In a world of Nazis, rapacious movie directors and lascivious producers (and it was worse here than in her native Germany), Marlene Dietrich gave the world that famous look, said: “Is dat the best vat you can do to me? Hah” and proceeded to take the world of show business by storm.
Being a bona fide product of Weimar Germany and Isherwood’s Cabaret Berlin, her sexuality swung both ways and her legs every way you could imagine; but even with all that, people still adored her. And so do I.
The problem for most American men, though, is that all they know of Marlene comes from Madeline Kahn’s exquisite parody of her in Blazing Saddles. But watch any two of her own movies, and you’ll see why this goddess was worshiped.
I recommend Morocco, and of course Blue Angel.
I don’t know if there was ever a more beautiful woman in the world than Gina Lollobrigida. This was her, at age 50:
Granted, it’s a studio shot, but still…
So here are some more “natural” shots of her:
And then there are the more well-known pics:
I have so MANY more pics of Gina, but I’d better stop or else we’ll still be here in a week’s time.
Si bella.