Martha Vickers never had much of a career in movies, and I don’t know why not. Maybe she was a lousy actress, or didn’t shag the right producers — it was the 1940s, who knows? Certainly, it could not have been because of her looks:
Just one of those mysteries, I guess.
More hotties over the half-century mark:
Heidi Klum (50)
Drea De Mateo (51)
Claudia Winkleman (51)
Giada De Laurentis (53)
Jennifer Aniston (54)
Monica Bellucci (57)
…and one more time, just because Salma:
Salma Hayek (57)
My my, how Heidi Klum’s little girl Leni has grown up:
She’s nineteen now, and those pics were taken on some rich guy’s yacht, where she and a couple of buddies of approximately-similar age were disporting themselves with anything but “gay” abandon, if you know what I mean. So clearly, young Leni has not just inherited Mommy Heidi’s looks…
And just a reminder as to who’s her daddy…
We take a break today from our regular Sunday programming — that of the study of classically-beautiful women — and pay homage to another group — those women who are neither classic nor even classy, but whose outstanding attributes deserve similar scrutiny.
Such as Brit actress Margaret Nolan: one of the “fringe” actresses who never made a serious impact on the cinema, but who always found work in movies of little redeeming social value (not that that’s important or anything, when it comes to the movies). So here’s Margaret:
And in glorious Technicolor:
Nothing much wrong with that, and whole lot right.
No, not the decade — although I yearn for its simplicity and wish we could get it back — but I’m talking here about women of half-century vintage.
Whilst skimming the Daily Mail the other day — shuddup, I do it so you don’t have to — I was suddenly struck by how many seriously-hot women in that age group were featured in that particular day’s paper. So in the interests of keeping my Loyal Readers up to date on matters such as these, what follows is a very brief pictorial, in no specific order. Remember that this was one day’s harvest (August 15, 2023), so to speak, and all are pics taken very recently.
Rollergirl (Heather Graham, 52)
Jennifer Garner, 51
Jennifer Lopez, 54
Former Olympian Gabby Logan, 50
Spice Girl Geri Horner, 51
Lisa Faulkner, 52
Amanda Holden, 52
Sophia Vergara, 51
Lisa Snowdon, 51
And yes, I know that these are all “barely” [sic] semi-centenarians. So here are a couple who aren’t:
Shania Twain, 57
Salma Hayek, 56
(not a studio- or posed pic, and she still looks magnificent)
What a day at the Mail… [sigh]
“Who she?” you may well ask. Consider this pic first, of someone we all know and love:
…and then know that Scilla Gabel was Sophia Loren’s stand-in and body double for many years on movie sets, when the production crew would be setting up the lighting, position marks and what-have-you before the cameras started to roll with the actual Sophia in the lens.
Later on, Scilla established her own movie career.
So all that having been said, here she is:
And I hate to say it, but Mary Poppins never looked this good:
And finally:
I do believe I can see the resemblance. Certainly, she’s Sophia’s double in terms of height, coloring and skin tone.
Which makes her stunningly gorgeous and alluring.