I see that 60s icon Jane Birkin has died. Of course, to many she’s best remembered as the other half of the duet with Serge Gainsbourg on Je T’Aime, Moi Non Plus (which could never be released today, and is only SFW if you work at Playboy or Penthouse). Here’s the duo:
…and here she is, solo:
Classic Sixties, she was.
R.I.P.
I’ve never seen any of her silent- or talkie movies, but I have to admit that I am fascinated by this willowy Brit actress (born in Germany to a Russian mother: why not British?).
She even appeared in a commercial — some time, I suspect, before it became popular.
Classically beautiful.
Somewhat more modern, Stella Stevens is still a classic beauty:
Didn’t look too bad in color either:
Of course, there was the Playboy thing:
…and still sexy at 60-ish:
Let’s hear it for the girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi…
Wanna meet Giada Di Laurentiis’s Nana? Here she is, Silvana Mangano:
More Silvana? Why, certainly:
Stunning. Absolutely worthy of being alongside Sophia and Gina.
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.