Tag: Classic Women

In Praise Of The Unknown Actress – Margaret Nolan

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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.

The Fabulous Fifties

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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]

Classic Beauty: Scilla Gabel

Classic Beauty

“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.

Secret Crush

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When I moved Over Here in the Great Wetback Episode of 1986, one of the things I immersed myself into (as part of my ahem acculturation program) was morning TV programs — pretty much enforced, as I was waiting for my work visa to be approved.  Anyway, not knowing which TV program to watch, I chose ABC’s Good Morning America, more or less at random.

Which is where I discovered the velvety voice and MILFY looks of Joan Lunden.

Of course, GMA (then and still) was the most appalling pablum and Lefty agitprop, but somehow none of that mattered because I was quite smitten with Miss Lunden (okay, Mrs., as I later learned, to much disappointment).  That voice and her occasional dirty chuckle got me going, let me tell you.

It became worse when I discovered that she had freckled boobs (!):

…which led to several naughty fantasies.  (Sadly, she later developed breast cancer, so I have no idea what happened to her girls.)

She’s a granny by now, of course, but then I too am an Olde Phartte, so none of it matters.  But for several months back there in the mid-80s…