Category: Beauty

Let’s see:  North Texas, redhead, pouty lips, starred mostly in 1940s noir  movies… okay, Ann Sheridan checks all the right boxes.

About that red hair…

Just about perfect.

She graduated high school at age 14, and then she went to college to study law.  Fortunately, sanity prevailed and she went into a musical career, then into movies.

One of her co-stars is reported to have said that she had the “most kissable mouth in Hollywood”.  That’s some strong competition, but Gertrude Michaels would have been right up there… still, I’ll let everyone else be the judge.

The bits below the lips weren’t too bad, either:

She would have been a lousy lawyer, anyway.

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Yeah, Scarlett O’Hara in that unforgivably racist / “problematic” / slavery-accepting movie which glorified the Klan and anyway, why put a Brit chick in the archetypal Southern-belle role?  Why?

And then there’s the result:

…the last pic being possibly the greatest “morning after” pose ever filmed.

No question.

One of not many actresses to make the transition from silent movies to the talkies, Brit-born Dorothy Mackaill got her start as a dancer in Paris, then graduated to be a Ziegfeld Girl.

Then she moved to Hollywood, and the woman-hating hairdressers got hold of her:

…but they never managed to submerge her beauty completely.

At the ripe old age of 52, Dorothy quit the movies, moved to Hawaii, and lived out the rest of her life in the luxury Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki beach, swimming in the sea every day until she died.

And who can argue with that?

When the exquisite Carole Lombard died in a plane crash at age 33, the world definitely became a far uglier place.

Her husband Clark Gable certainly thought so.  He was buried next to her, many years and several other wives later.