Classic Beauty: Sally Blane

I’ve spoken about Loretta Young and her sister Polly Ann before, and in the intro to the latter, I said the following:

Actor David Niven once described the Young sisters (Polly Ann, Elizabeth and Loretta) thus: “Each one was prettier than the others.”

So if I’ve looked at Loretta and Polly Ann, then where’s Elizabeth Young?

Here she is;  only she changed her stage name to Sally Blane.  In the early years:

And later on:

Good grief.  Small wonder that David Niven was so frequently a guest at the Young sisters’ house, the old dog.  Here he is with Loretta:

Classic Beauty: Diana Dors

It is difficult to read her biography without sorrow for Diana Dors’s career, which consisted mainly of exploitation, outright abuse (e.g. abortions forced on her by her lovers) and a succession of movie roles promised but never fulfilled.

Most of the above came from her appearance — although it must also be said that she was also a naughty, naughty girl — so let’s see what all the fuss was about.

Let’s look at the tout ensemble  now:

We’ll save the color pics for another time.

Classic Beauty: Anne Jeffreys

She was the last actress to dance onscreen with Fred Astaire, had an opera-trained soprano voice (which she used on Broadway) and starred in many movies and TV series over the years.  None of which compares to the beauty of Anne Jeffreys:

Imagine finding this little present under the Christmas tree:

And she didn’t get any uglier as she got older, either:

Just wonderful.