Post classic beauties

[jali]

Dorothy Dandridge

[jali]

Anna May Wong

[jali]

Sal Mineo

[Ludovic]

Usually I'm only halfway serious about this, but this time it really did take until halfway thru the thread to realize that you all were supposed to insert pictures of classic beauties into this thread, rather than talk about beauties that are post-classical. (then I was thinking, if these are post-classical, what's classic, 19th century visual art?)

[Biggirl]

To pick myself up from the downer that is West Side Story, I watched Singing In The Rain.

Debbie Reynolds (who I think is less classical beauty and more fresh faced beauty)

[Hostile Dialect]

To me, the man who defined classic good looks was 1950s-60s Italian film star and alliterative Federico Fellini favorite Marcello Mastroianni:







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Diana, I never liked Gregory Peck until I saw that first picture of yours.

eleanorigby, TinEye Reverse Image Search allows you to paste the URL of a picture and find other sizes of it online. It's an essential for Dark Room posting, IMO.

[eleanorigby]

Thanks! I'll try again. Errol Flynn as Captain Blood

[Diana]

To pick myself up from the downer that is West Side Story, I watched Singing In The Rain.

Debbie Reynolds (who I think is less classical beauty and more fresh faced beauty)

But not Gene Kelly?
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Yay for converting Hostile Dialect to Peckdom!!!

[Biggirl]

Gene Kelly is very, very handsome but when I see him in movies, I'm not really looking at his face. I'm imagining him naked. What a bod!

[Kaspar Hauser]

Maria Falconetti is beautiful as Jeanne in Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

I often find that the "silent era" stars have a certain expressive quality that is rarely seen anymore.

[Baldwin]

Katy Jurado:



Always wondered why her character and Gary Cooper's broke up in the backstory to High Noon. Whatever it was, I would have tried real hard to work it out.

[OtakuLoki]

Not exactly remembered as a classic film beuaty, but certainly hawt:

Mystery Hawtie



[spoiler:1mh9zfwb]It's Shirley Temple.

I'll admit I've only seen one of her movies from this time frame, but it was fun. In a creepy sort of way. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Of course the subject matter of that film is going to be questionable to many modern viewers, given that it involves potential cross generational romance.[/spoiler:1mh9zfwb]

[Myrnalene]

Guys! We have all been very remiss, you realize that?

The one and only James Dean.

[Paul in Qatar]

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....let me try again

[Hostile Dialect]

You're right, Paul, she's gorgeous. And look at those huge pixels!

[OneCentStamp]

Do you have to be dead or over 70 to be a classic beauty? I always thought ol' Scarlett was born about 50 years too late. She was meant for the era of Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe.

[SmartAleq]

Check out Molly C. Quinn, who could be Scarlet's little sister:

[What Exit?]

Here is a related article and slideshow from Comcast: http://www.comcast.net/slideshow/entert ... hollywood/

[Myrnalene]

Louis Jourdan

[Myrnalene]

More Myrna Loy

[What Exit?]