Baby-faced (literally: she appeared in her first movie at age 13) Irish actress Peggy Cummins was often turned down for movie roles because she was too young. (Nowadays, of course, she’d be Polanski-bait.) But enough of that; here’s a sample:
Gun Crazy (she wasn’t — that was just the name of her most famous movie).
Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College. Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:
And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:
I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts. A fitting end, I think, to this series.
Here’s the lovely TV actress Samia Longchambon, who first appeared on Britsoap Coronation Street back in 2000 at age 18, and twenty-three years later, is still at it. Here she is as a youngin:
And now, at around age 40:
…this one was taken last week:
Lovely.
Pretty much everything about Carole Landis was tragic: her early life, her love life, and her death by suicide at age 31. But there was nothing tragic about her looks:
Exquisite.
In this, the penultimate of the series for now, we look at another two examples of teenage boys’ boner-starters of a bygone era. First, the 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT 350:
…and as their contemporaneous companion piece, so to speak, the pouty Brigitte Bardot:
What a pair.
One hundred and nine movies, forty-five years in show business: that would be Mary Astor, who started in silent movies, almost never made it to talkies (because of her deep, “masculine” voice), and was an accomplished classical pianist. She also loved men, and her private (and very explicit) diary nearly caused an explosion in Hollywood when it came to light.
But none of that’s important. This is:
And then later with the ugly hairstyles of the era, but still exquisitely beautiful:
No wonder they all fell for her.