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.
The latest in this series features the Ferrari F110 Testarossa:
…and one of their likely accompaniments on the wall, the All-American Cheryl Tiegs:
And of course:
Little skinny for my taste, but millions of teenage boys working their bedtime pup-tents would probably disagree with me.
Straddling, so to speak, the silent- and talkies era of movies, it’s worth remembering that the tiny Clara Bow was one of the top three movie actresses of the period. She was a redhead, although tragically, she never appeared in a color movie. And she was a hell-raiser with a voracious sexual appetite.
The “It” Girl, indeed.