Here we go:
Category: Beauty
Classic Beauty: Vivien Leigh
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.
Classic Beauty: Dorothy Mackaill
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?
Classic Beauty: Carole Lombard
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.
Classic Beauty: Ruth Hussey
Her hairstylist should have been executed for Crimes Against Beauty, but Ruth Hussey still managed to get past all that:
Unfailingly elegant, too:
Ruth was not only beautiful, but loyal: she was married to the same man for 60 years.
As Expected
If it’s Race Day at Britishland’s Cheltenham, can Carol Vorderman and The Girls be far away?
And speaking of girls… it’s Silly Hats Time:
…although not for everybody:
It’s a little early in the season (therefore too cold) for Brit chicks to go Full Totty at the races, and Cheltenham ain’t Aintree anyway. But soon, baby.
Oy.