As much a stage actress — perhaps more so — as a movie star, Maude Fealey was one of those women who distinguished themselves not so much for their acting but for what they did for the business after their careers were over.
Not that she wasn’t lovely, though:
I just wish we could have seen her smile… but I can’t find any such pics of her, except perhaps this one:
…which just hints at it.
I’ve enjoyed looking at this Polish beauty for many years now, ever since I first saw her in the Gorky Park movie.
Now that last pic gives a hint of, but does not do justice to her most striking feature: those ice-blue eyes:
Not that the rest isn’t wonderful too:
Stunning.
Well, this caught my attention:
Sacha Baron Cohen turns heads on set of Ladies First alongside Rosamund Pike
Sacha Baron Cohen is a total twat and a plonker, but Rosamund Pike? Hoo-ah.
I first saw this hottie in Episode 1 of the wonderful TV show Foyle’s War, and have been smitten ever since. I know, I know, she’s a lot skinnier than my typical objets d’amour, but good grief, she’s beautiful.
She was a Ziegfeld girl in her late teens, became a silent movie star at 19, made an effortless transition to the talkies, was a rival to “It Girl” Clara Bow, starred in movies which outgrossed actresses like Mary Pickford and Greta Garbo, and when asked to smoke a cigarette in a movie at age 23, had to be shown how to do it. Then she quit Hollywood because she felt like it and learned how to fly a plane.
All that, and beauty. Here’s Billie Dove:
Did I mention that she was a redhead?
I see that Miss Denmark won the Miss Universe 2024 competition, beating off out several people who had no business being there, e.g. trannies, married women (did the “Miss” part not give it away?), and in a moment of pure confusion, Joe Biden.
However: in the “national costume” part of the competition, Victoria Kjær Theilvig made a HUGE mistake, in dressing as a Viking goddess.
I mean, was she not aware that Vikings had a terrible reputation for invading and (gasp) colonizing other countries? (“Pillaging” is okay, see BLM riots, and besides, most of the pillagees were eeeevil Christianists anyway.) And then there was the raping, which was pretty much a side benefit of the invading activity.
Did she not know that wearing such a costume would trigger the collective memory of women all over Western Europe, causing heartfelt anguish?
I’m amazed that all the affected countries aren’t calling for the Danish government to pay reparations. Well, I would be amazed, except that Europeans seem to have come to terms with the fact that all this happened a really long time ago, all the perpetrators (and their victims) have long since died, and expecting reparations would be a truly foolish idea.
But that’s not what prompted me to write this post; this did:
I haven’t seen all her competitors, but I’m pretty sure that the trannies and such didn’t look half as good as she does.
It’s a good thing that all Viking women didn’t look like this back in the day, or else ol’ Leif Erikson and the other boss Vikings would have had a hell of a time finding enough men to go off and do the invading / pillaging / exploring thing.
Born in Yugoslavia (now Croatia), Silvija Košćina moved over to Italy, where she became Sylva Koscina and an actress. She was, at the time, Italy’s answer to France’s Brigitte Bardot, but I always thought she was a lot classier than the French totty.
I saw her in some forgettable movie long ago, and developed an insane pre-teen crush on her. I’m happy to say that with advancing age, nothing has changed.
Here she is in black & white:
Like last week’s Classic, Madeline Smith, I’ll defer Sylva’s color pics to a later date.