Old Hollywood... Who was most gorgeous or your fave?

[Shell Beau]

She is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


On edit: For those who do not know this is the lovely Ms. Ava Gardner!

[Lex]

1. I'm kind of partial to Greer Garson.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

2. Mine

A woman of class, substance and passion. And apparently quite a progressive as well

[Shell Beau]

3. She's got Bette Davis eyes!!

Oh!! :P I am that silly, oh yes, I am!! :)

[unsavedtrash]

4. Malene Dietrich

[Nicole]

5. Carole Landis

[ironflange]

6. Grace Kelly

She's Grace-a-licious! :bounce:

[Rude Horner]

25. I'll second that

Absolutely beautiful.

[NNadir]

61. I agree. Pure grace.

[ceile]

65. My favorite.

I want a dress just like the one she wore in "Too Catch a Thief". Stunning!

[opiate69]

7. Frances Farmer

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Leslie Howard.

So sad that he was a casualty of WW II.

[Robeson]

9. My fave? Bogart.....

....

[enigmatic]

10. Hedy Lamarr

Especially here, as Tondelayo in White Cargo:

[Hugin]

34. Oh, YEAH... or Veronica Lake.

[spiderpig]

11. Be still, my heart!

Adored him since I was a kid.

[BuelahWitch]

12. Audrey Hepburn

Beautiful inside and out

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. The true beauty of the 20th century!! I can't believe only one person picked her so far.

She's so obviously the only possible choice, I'm sickened by lack of response for her.

Not just beautiful in looks, but in speech and how she moved and sat and stood and moved her arms - everything graceful, elegant, gorgeous. A true beauty. The most beautiful woman of the 20th century.

[BuelahWitch]

63. Yes, if Hollywood ever had a Princess, it was Audrey

Not to mention the work she did on behalf of children later on in her life.

[Parche]

75. True Beauty

Reality
and Illusion

[Mrs Robeson]

13. My favorite actress...

Joan Fontaine

[Kutjara]

14. Vivien Leigh

Be still, my foolish heart.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

15. Donna Reed

Most think of her as the 1950's housewife, so they don't consider her glamorous or gorgeous

[ForrestGump]

16. I have to go with Shell Beau

No, not as in her being the most beautiful old-Hollywood actress (though she is a beautiful young woman), but in my being in agreement with her choice of actresses. I have many favorites -- Marilyn is a classic from my childhood and she is also unique in that she occupies a cultural-icon niche more typical of men (Elvis, James Dean, and a very few others) -- but Ava Gardner was one of the most beautiful women to ever work in Hollywood or, indeed, anywhere else. She was hardly a wallflower, either, or the demure southern belle some may have initially assumed her to be.



:loveya:

[Graybeard]

77. Read Mickey Rooney's autobiography...

...to learn about Ava's other "qualities". His tell-all tells a wee bit too much.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Two of 'em are in one photo

Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard, with Claudette Colbert, from "So Proudly We Hail."







That's an awful photo of Lake, though. This is much better:

[donheld]

18. She's ok for a Girl

:puffpiece:

[REP]

19. I Was Gonna Post Ava Gardner!

Those aren't even the best photos of her. She was unusually gorgeous.

[YankeyMCC]

20. Lauren Bacall nt

[hellbound-liberal]

21. Nice set of "getaway sticks" on Gardner. My vote goes to Ingrid Bergman

[Graybeard]

22. Ava was gorgeous at every stage of her career.

...As a young starlet, A-list sexpot and "been around the block a few times". She was just as sexy later on in Seven Days In May, Night Of The Iguana and The Cassandra Crossing.

[MonkeyFunk]

23. Garbo

[SaveElmer]

24. Lauren Bacall...

[MorningGlow]

26. Nobody but...

Sigh!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Okay, a close second:

[NewJeffCT]

27. Rita Hayworth is one of my faves

Though, you can't go wrong with anybody in this thread...



her famous pic that was in many foxholes in WW2:

[idgiehkt]

40. me too

I've never seen anything that can outdo that second picture. It reigns as the most beautiful.

[soleft]

28. I know Kate Beckinsale played her in the Aviator, but

I always thought Katherine Zeta Jones resembles Ava Gardner

[kwassa]

29. katherine hepburn

[Beer Snob-50]

30. hopefully this works.

this is one for the ages!!

[xchrom]

36. her and elizabeth taylor are my top two.

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. She is still beautiful! n/t

[NashVegas]

31. Lillian Gish, Joseph Cotton, Ingrid Bergman

[Tyrone Slothrop]

32. Gene Tierney

[seemunkee]

33. Veronica Lake

[Hugin]

35. ...

Get off my brainwaves! :tinfoilhat:

See #34. :D

[mitchum]

37. Not the most gorgeous, but Barbara Stanwyck is my favorite actress...

of Old Hollywood.
The most gorgeous would be the luscious Rita Hayworth

[libnnc]

42. I'm a Stany fan too

To the point of obsession.

And this is one of my favorite photos of her. I think it's a John Engstead photo.

[trackfan]

38. Louise Brooks

[BurtWorm]

43. People don't realize what a beautiful forehead she had.

:loveya:

[lutefisk]

57. More of Loiuse's beautiful forehead can be seen in my post #50

She didn't always have bangs.

There is something about her...I think I'll rent one her movies this week.

[LibertyLover]

39. Errol Flynn

and Cary Grant. Love those classic movie actors.

[lavenderdiva]

41. Norma Shearer

see my avatar!

[Shell Beau]

44. Her eyes are mesmerizing!

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. Gone too soon...Carole Lombard,

So very funny. So very pretty.

And, I don't care what you all say, Joan Crawford.

I don't think she was half as bad as Christina wrote she was.

[Serendipitous]

46. Nobody's posted THIS hottie yet!?

[Shell Beau]

47. Surprisingly no!!!

Gorgeous!

[Serendipitous]

48. Hot and hotter here....

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. JIMMY!!!

He and Liz were both beautiful.

[5thGenDemocrat]

49. Myrna Loy and, later, Lee Remick

Both were total liberal Democrats, by the way.
John
Not to mention absolutely dreamy.

[lutefisk]

50. Louise Brooks

[BurtWorm]

58. Those are two of my favorite photos of her.

There are gorgeous color photos of her lounging carefree somewhere online. I can't find them now, for some reason. She was uncharacteristically smiling, as though she was enjoying herself in them. Just ravishingly beautiful.

[Mad_Dem_X]

51. My favorite:

Pier Angeli


I also like Ava and Rita Hayworth.

[Mad_Dem_X]

54. Ms_Dem_Meanor's choice:

[Arkansas Granny]

55. I always thought Loretta Young was such a beauty.

I've seen her in several movies and I remember watching her show on TV when I was a young girl.

[sarge43]

59. Simply beautiful

[ceile]

67. Classic. n/t

[stirlingsliver]

60. Have You Ever Been To Smithfield, N.C.??

Have you ever been to Smithfield, N.C.?

It is the home of Ava Gardner.

They have a lovely little museum there -- The Ava Gardner Museum. The guides there are women who actually knew Ava Gardner as they were all growing up together.

It is also where Ava Gardner is buried.

[stirlingsliver]

62. Male and Female

Male: Jimmy Cagney

Female: Rosalind Russell

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

64. They're all lovely

but it's hard (in my mind) to argue against Elizabeth Taylor! Don't have a pic to post.......

[BuelahWitch]

73. Here's one

[ceile]

66. Cary Grant

swoon...

[EFerrari]

69. Definitely. And he was FUNNY.

[terrya]

68. Montgomery Clift

He was quite beautiful. For a time.

[Calliope]

70. Gregory Peck

[fladonkey]

71. Okay, here's a question....

Why were so many of the 'old Hollywood' stars better looking than today's?

[achtung_circus]

72. Maybe it's just me,

but I would put Maureen O'Hara on any list. Beautiful, and remains so at the age of 86.



I also have a bit of a thing for red hair.

[nosillies]

74. Hooray for curvy women!

La vita wouldn't have been so dolce if one of today's stick figures had done this scene.

[Va Lefty]

76. Judy Holliday

[Shine]

78. Sophia Loren, hands down.

:applause: plus I was named after one of the characters she played in "El Cid" :D

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

79. Hedy Lamarr - Hot and A Brilliant Mind to boot

and, from Wikipedia

Frequency-hopped spread spectrum invention

Hedy Lamarr (under her then-married name of Hedy Kiesler Markey) and composer George Antheil received U.S. Patent 2,292,387 for their Secret Communication System on August 11, 1942. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. This idea was controversial and ahead of its time and technology. The technology did not begin to be implemented until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba,<2> after the patent had expired. Neither Lamarr nor Antheil made any money from the patent. Perhaps due to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award<3> for this contribution.

Lamarr's frequency-hopping idea served as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology used in devices ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi Internet connections. The technology in particular that is often attributed to her and George Antheil is CDMA.<4>

Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council but she was told that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds. She once raised $7,000,000 at just one event.

In 2003, the Boeing corporation ran a series of recruitment ads featuring Hedy Lamarr as a woman of science. No reference to her film career was made in the ads.

In 2005, the first Inventor's Day in German-speaking countries was held in her honor on November 9, on what would have been her 92nd birthday.

[Cruzan]

80. Charlie Chaplin

[Seabiscuit]

81. Hmmmm.....

Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelley
Bridget Bardot
Marilyn
Sophia Loren
young Natalie Wood