Category: Classic Beauty

She started off as a model herself, and then became one of the most well-known photographers of them all:  Bunny Yeager had it all.

She didn’t even have to be blonde…

 

But still:

 

Best. Selfies. Ever.

Let’s start with England’s James II:

Arabella Churchill

…and

Dorothy Sedley

…then on to France’s Napoleon Bonaparte:

Maria Walewska

…and his nephew, Napoleon III:

Harriet Howard

Rachel Félix

Virginie Castiglione

Back across the Channel, we have England’s William IV:

Dorothea Jordan

And finally, across the Atlantic, the mistress of yet another William:

Monica Lewinsky

Although she was made famous to American audiences in Dynasty, Stephanie Beacham had already had quite a career beforehand.  But who cares?  Today, she’s in her sizzling seventies, and looks as good as she always did.  Proof? you say?  In more-or-less chronological order, then:

As we all remember her in Dynasty — with the big hair:

And nowadays…

(click to embiggen — and note the freckled cleavage!!!!)

Beautiful back then, stunning now.

I know I’ve featured Anita Ekberg on these pages many times before, as well as giving her a little solo outing;  but can one ever have too much Ekberg, I ask?  I think not.  So here are a few I haven’t posted before:

 

     

Stunning?  I report, you decide.

Actor David Niven once described the Young sisters (Polly Ann, Elizabeth and Loretta) thus: “Each one was prettier than the others”, and who am I to argue with his judgment?  So as we looked at Loretta last week, let’s look at the oldest of the three (the fourth, Georgiana, was a half-sister, but we’ll get to her later).

Say hello to Polly Ann Young:

 

I think Niven was right… and we’ll look at Elizabeth next week.

I think I first fell in love with Loretta Young in The Bishop’s Wife — one of the better Christmas movies of all time — and mostly, it should be said, because of that sexy contralto voice.

Not that the rest was too horrible.

And she didn’t look too bad as an older woman, either:

Classy and lovely, always.