Starlet Showcase

And like that. . .

2010-09-08T00:01:00.009-04:00

. . .he's gone.

Last Call

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Natalie Wood

Susan Strasberg

Angie Dickinson

Simone Simon

Mylene Demongeot

Jean Arthur

Helen Mack

Geraldine Chaplin

Fay Wray

Ava Gardner

Anne Francis

Doing The Wave

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The Sexiest Picture in the World

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Mary Anderson

Lifelike Dolls

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Large pictures from Life.

Towel Racks 3

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Jo Morrow

Elke Sommer

Juliette Greco

From Sergeant Deadhead, 1965.

(Don't know this one.)

Elizabeth Ercy

Elena Nathanail

Claudine Auger

Britt Ekland

BB!
Towel Racks 2
Keywords: ace hardware, bath towels, bathroom fixtures,
bed bath and beyond, hardware, home depot, home improvement,
menards, terrycloth, towels, zippo lighter

Random Unlabeled Weirdness

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More Jammies

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Catherine Deneuve

Tina Louise

Sonya Wilde

Merle Oberon

Lynn Merrick

Gina Lollobrigida

Ellen Drew

Doris Day

Colleen Miller

Bardot (above and below)

Ann-Margret

Annie Girardot

Angie Dickinson

Can-Can

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Kiss Off

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Henry Hathaway shoots Kiss of Death (1947) in the Bronx House of Detection for Men, Sing Sing Penitentiary, and the Tombs.

Horsing Around

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Also see
Horse Play,
A Girl and a Good Horse,
and
Horse Sense.

Nancy Carroll Color

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Nancy Carroll

Dancing With The Starlets

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Swingers

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Joan Collins

Pier Angeli

Maud Adams

June Allyson

Janet Leigh

Evelyn Brent

Ann Blyth
Also see:
Swing Set
Swinging Singles
and
Swing Time

Elke Update

2010-09-04T11:46:00.007-04:00

Elke Sommer

Hands Up #10

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Lori Saunders

Paulette Goddard

Vera Zorina

Natalie Wood

Gertrude Michael

Eleanor Boardman

Debra Paget

Chris Noel

Anne Baxter

Emily Cranz

Farewell, My Lovelies

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Fresh Faces

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Helen Mack

Jane Bryan

Kathryn Grant

JoAnn Pflug

Katharine Ross

Ginger Rogers

Deborah Walley

Ann Sothern

Robyn Lively
More fresh faces.

88 Girls

2010-09-03T18:01:00.006-04:00

Dorothy McGuire

Mary Duncan

Marsha Hunt

Linda Ware

Jane Powell

Ingrid Bergman

George White Scandals group

Doris Day

Contsance Moore

Anna Friel
(As we know from our studies, the "88" refers to the number of piano keys, not the number of girls.)

A Short Post

2010-09-03T15:01:00.001-04:00

As the summer heat and humidity fade away, so too do the shorts. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy a post about them. Some people (me included) should never wear shorts. Other people seem to have been born to wear shorts.

English Class

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Lovely Louise English from The Benny Hill Show.

Some More Terry Moore

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Terry Moore

All That Glitters Is Not Chrome 2

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Anna May Wong

Janet Leigh

Joan Fulton

Terry Walker

Elaine Stewart
...Chrome 1

No Heels At The. . .

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Anne Baxter

Arlene Dahl

Janis Carter (above and below)

Betty Grable

Joan Leslie

Sophie Daumier (above and below)

Still from Why Buy a Duck?

Nan Grey

Please review all the other rules here:
No Heels in the Gym!
No Heels in the Pool!
No Heels on the Beach!
and
No Heels on the Diving Board!

Gun Love 8

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The Future's Getting Brighter

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Martha Hyer

Claudia Cardinale

Stefania Sandrelli

Bardot (above and below)

Susannah York
(You can also squint at past bright futures here and here and here.)

Mirror Mirror #13

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Ida Lupino

Gloria Grahame and my man Lee

Jacqueline Sassard

Veronica Lake

Virginia Mayo

Jan Sterling, Ultra-Blonde

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Jan Sterling

40 Loose Non-Blondes

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Dana Wynter

Yvonne Craig

Sylvia Sydney

Susan Strasberg

Stefanie Powers

Simone Simon

Shirley Anne Field

Rosanna Schiaffino

Rita Moreno

Piper Laurie

Paula Drew

Brenda Benet

Patsy Ruth Miller

Myrna Loy

Maurenn O'Sullivan

Mary Murphy (above and below)

Mary Brian

Mary Astor

Linda Christian (above and below)

June Blaire

Joyce Taylor

Jo Ann Harris

Janice Rule

Jane Greer

Jacqueline Bisset

Gloria Jean

Gigi Perrau

Eva Bartok

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Elaine Stewart

Dolores del Rio

Cyd Charisse (above and below)

Claudia Cardinale

Bebe Daniels

Arline Judge

Anna Marie Alberghetti

Andrea Rau

Frances Rafferty

Starlets With No Pants Day #3

2010-08-30T12:01:00.005-04:00

Barbara Kellerman

Leslie Parrish (above and below)

Ann Schedeen

Claudia Cardinale (above and below)

Leticia Palma

Little French Twist

2010-08-30T00:01:00.001-04:00

Simone Simone gets all the best close-ups as Jimmy Stewart's
little French twist in Seventh Heaven (1937).

Hollywood Harem #14

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Letitia Roman

Cast members from The Brass Bottle

Patricia Medina

Olinka Berova

Marilyn Maxwell

Mari Blanchard

Ludmilla Tcherina

Juliette Mayniel

Still from The Best House in London

Acquanetta

Claudette Colbert

Little Darling

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Ann Blyth

Creamy Mayo

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Virginia Mayo

Blonde Assortment

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Dyan Cannon

Greta Nissen

Eva Gabor

Jane Wyman

Ellen Barkin

Kathleen Cody

Lynn Merrick

Madeline Carroll

Susan Oliver

Patricia Viterbo

Little Black Dress

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Jessica Harper in that little black dress.

All Eyes on Ava

2010-08-29T11:21:00.009-04:00

If you ever find yourself down south sometime,
go visit the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield,
North Carolina. I went there. It was hot!

More Ava.

Purdey 4

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Purdey 3

Babes and Beverages

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The Queen of Technicolor

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Rhonda Fleming

Luciana in B&W and Color

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Luciana Paluzzi

Ladder Day Saints 2

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Ladder Day Saints 1

Rated PG

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Paulette Goddard

Girl-Girl #18

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Carole Lombard

Virginia Mayo

Melina Mercouri and Romy Schneider

Marjorie Reynolds

Marie Laforet and Stephane Audran

Kathlyn Williams and Marguerite De La Motte

Joan Dixon and Cleo Moore

Joan Bennett and Billie Burke

Jeanne Moreau and Michele Girardon

Jane Greer and Lizabeth Scott

Helen Broderick and Constance Bennett

Gloria DeHaven and June Allyson

Ginger Rogers

Gina Lollobrigida

Gene Tierney

Frances Dee

Elizabeth Ashley and Gila Golan

Dorothy Malone and Gena Rowlands

Dorothy Lamour and Linda Darnell

Dietrich

Ann Sothern

Anne Shirley and Carole Landis

Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate

Extra Creamy Delicious Martinelli Sauce

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Elsa Martinelli

(They've got some Laura Antonelli mixed into this slide show.)

Mary Anderson Alert

2010-08-27T16:17:00.007-04:00

You can see Mary Anderson in To Each His Own (1946) tonight on TCM, the best channel on all of television.

Reading Room #7

2010-08-27T12:01:00.004-04:00

Viveca Lindfors

Yvonne DeCarlo

Patrica Harty

(Don't know this one.)

Pat Mace

Kim Novak

Lizabeth Scott

Lee Remick

Dana Wynter

Anne Baxter
(Don't forget to read.)

Jeez Louise Those Knees 2

2010-08-27T00:01:00.012-04:00

Angela Greene

Abbe Lane

Arleen Whelan

Bernice Claire

Estelita Rodriguez

Ginger Rogers

Grace McDonald

Janette Scott

Marie Windsor

Milly Vitale

Nadia Gray

Pascale Petit

Pat Crowley

Priscilla Lawson

Raquel Torres

(Also see Jeez Louise 1)

Pssst! Behind you! #6

2010-08-26T18:19:00.006-04:00

Ava Gardner

Brigitte Bardot

Claire Trevor

Jane Powell

Jeanne Crain

Julie Adams

Lawrence Tierney behind somebody.

Marilyn Maxwell

Everybody wants to get behind Marilyn Maxwell.

Sandra Dee

Senta Berger

Dietrich

Kitchenettes 4

2010-08-26T10:38:00.001-04:00

Deborah Kerr

Dorothy McGuire

Jean Simmons

Kim Hunter

Wanda Hendrix
(Also see Kitchenettes 3.)

Around and About

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American Shaft
(A lot of people are doing a lot of gorgeous and creative things with photo blogs and tumblrs these days. I'm not going to bother telling you what might be NSFW. You'll just have to use your own common sense and NOT use your company computer.)

Does this look infected?

Facie Populi

Farbror Sid

femina

Lady Snowblood

The Muller-Fokker Pulpbot Effect

My Ear-Trumpet...

pieto the media ecologist

Me Against Them

The Nearness, a View

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Ann Sothern

Arlene Dahl

Betty Grable

Helen Carter

Leigh Taylor-Young

Mabel Normand

Mary Brian

Pier Angeli

Victoria Vetri

Yvette Mimieux

Lana Turner (above and below)

Mad Balls!

2010-08-25T10:49:00.003-04:00

(Don't know this one.)

Jean Porter

Diana Rigg

Patricia Ellis

Judith Barrett
(Lots more balls here.)

Frances Dee potpourri

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Some lesser Frances Dee pictures.

Good or bad pictures, I still love her.

It-Don't-Worry-Me Girl

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Barbara Harris plays a character named "Albuquerque" in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). Maybe it's just me, but she seems like the only character who isn't terribly dated. Nowadays Barbara teaches acting.

It Don't Worry Me

More little pictures of her HERE.

Breakaway Dress

2010-08-23T00:01:00.007-04:00

Here are some Life magazine pictures of a "breakaway dress." It's cute, but probably not as much fun as, say, a tear-away dress, an edible dress, or a tattered dress.

Smoker #12

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Muriel Catala

Romy Schneider

Rita Hayworth

Madge Bellamy

Lana Turner

Kathleen Myers

Julie Christie

Jessica Lange

Jacqueline Bisset

Helen Walker

Brigitte Helm

Anne Bancroft

Meche Barba

Gun Girls #9

2010-08-21T18:04:00.001-04:00

Daliah Lavi

Ali MacGraw

Barbara Leigh and Susan Kiger

Bethel Leslie

Chan Poh Chu

Ellen Drew

Eva Bartok

Jill St. John

Joan Collins

Julie Adams

Katharine Ross

Lana Turner

Linda Evans

Marsha Hunt

Mylene Demongeot

Nina Foch

Joan Marsh (maybe)

Rhonda Fleming

Tuesday Weld

Virginia Bruce

Six Soggy Sisters

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Elizabeth Taylor

Ann-Margret

Doris Day

Jan Sterling

Veronica Vazquez

Natalie Wood

Heavens To Betsy 3

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Betsy Von Furstenberg

Eclipse

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13 Cool Dresses

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Anne Baxter

Christine Carere

Jean Parker (above and below)

Karen Sharpe

Lana Turner

Lilyan Tashman

Marjie Millar

Mary Ellis

Peggy Shannon

Steffi Duna

Vivian Blaine

Veronica Lake
(Okay, so it's not really a dress.)

Calamity Jane Alexander

2010-08-20T00:01:00.005-04:00

I don't usually post anything quite as masculine as these, but they're still Jane Alexander. They're from a 1984 television movie called Calamity Jane, which is about Martha Jane Cannary Burke, who was even less feminine.

Rolling Thunder Girl

2010-08-19T00:01:00.007-04:00

Linda Haynes in the Paul Schrader-scripted revenge yarn Rolling Thunder (1977). She has the sweetest little voice. I understand she's a legal secretary these days.

You can watch it on Hulu.

Enoch's Armida

2010-08-18T13:27:00.001-04:00

Jack has a new post about Armida Vendrell.

New York

2010-08-18T00:01:00.005-04:00

Susannah York hasn't been here in a while.
Here are some new pictures of her.

Angel Face Too

2010-08-17T00:01:00.008-04:00

So I'm watching the DVD of Angel Face (1952) with Robert Mitchum and the lovely Jean Simmons. And you know that I love Jean Simmons and her eyes and everything, right? But she's wearing a bad wig in the movie, and that's sort of distracting and unattractive. And I fast-forwarded through some of the slower and more predictable scenes. Funny, I watched it a second time with Eddie Muller's commentary track, and didn't fast-forward through him at all. He does a nice job and doesn't take himself too seriously. I always enjoy his stuff. Anyway, then there's the film's "good girl" role, played by petite (5'1") and pretty Mona Freeman, and she really impressed me. She looks like a young Martha Hyer, but without the coolness or coldness. I thought Mona Freeman was an angel face, too.

The Dog Days of Summer 2

2010-08-16T12:01:00.008-04:00

Yup, it's hot outside. Work majorly sux. It's muggy.
It's buggy and sweaty and sticky and funky.
And the whole world smells like rotting gym shoes
and hyena puke. Dog days indeed.

Dog Days 1 (from 2 years ago today).

furry oliVia

2010-08-16T00:01:00.005-04:00

Olivia de Havilland makes a "V" sign with her fingers.
More cool signs HERE.

Valora

2010-08-15T18:00:00.006-04:00

Valora Noland on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) and Mannix (1967). She was also in Beach Party (1963) and Muscle Beach Party (1964). And, for you Trekkies, she played Daras in the February 1968 T.O.S. episode called "Patterns of Force."

She was here once before.

Hellbound Train

2010-08-15T00:01:00.009-04:00

Korean War veteran Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) returns to his job as a train engineer and finds himself trapped between sizzling Gloria Grahame, boorish Broderick Crawford, and delicious Kathleen Case in Fritz Lang's Human Desire (1954).

Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown

Book Babes Galore!

2010-08-14T18:09:00.013-04:00

Man, I thought that I had some great pictures of sexy readers. Hey, I ain't got jack, compared to Women Reading, Book Porn, and Hot chicks with books, some of which is NSFW.

("Read a book, read a book, read a M-F-ing book.")

The Varsity Drag Dress Miasma

2010-08-14T00:01:00.022-04:00

This post started as merely an appreciation of the great dress that June Allyson wore in the Varsity Drag number from Good News (1947), and then it sort of devolved into a heavy-breathing study of her petite (5'1") long-waisted (99-pound) figure with its well-turned legs and peep-toe heels, and then...well...
...it just kind of ended with pictures of June before she got all sensible with those 1950s short hair styles. Hey, I just like her, okay?

(Like you even asked for an explanation, right?)

Lovely Little Leighs

2010-08-13T00:01:00.009-04:00

Janet Leigh

More Mae

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Marvelous Mae Clarke.

(This last one is from Grapefruit Moon.)

Field Day!

2010-08-12T00:01:00.006-04:00

Betty Field

Yummy!

Baxter Beauty

2010-08-11T00:01:00.003-04:00

Anne Baxter

Tuesday Trailers

2010-08-10T00:01:00.007-04:00

Tuesday Weld

. . .and some photos you might not have seen before.

(A T.W. page.)

Purely Paulette

2010-08-09T00:01:00.004-04:00

I don't often think of Paulette Goddard as pure and wholesome as this.

Red Dress Music

2010-08-08T20:00:00.006-04:00

Makin' Whoopee - Michelle Pfeiffer

The Man I Love - Valeria Golino

Why Don't You Do Right - Jessica Rabbit

Spooky - Jaime Ray Newman

The Woman in Red - Kelly Le Brock

For the love of. . .

2010-08-08T12:01:00.000-04:00

For the love of Opera Gloves has thousands of pictures.

Anne "Big Hair" Helm

2010-08-08T00:01:00.005-04:00

Last time Anne Helm visited us, she was fighting dragons and wearing an anatomically precise dress.

(Some people confuse her with the similarly gifted 60s chick Yvonne Craig.)

Armida

2010-08-07T18:10:00.006-04:00

Tiny (4'10") actress-singer-dancer Armida Vendrell was in General Crack (1930), The Marines Are Coming (1934), Machine Gun Mama (1944), Cuban Madness (1946), Jungle Goddess (1948), and The Gay Amigo (1949).

Deco Dolls

2010-08-07T00:01:00.004-04:00

A Sonny Day

2010-08-06T13:25:00.005-04:00

It's not a sunny day. It's kind of cloudy, in fact. But I've been listening to Sonny Rollins all morning and felt like sharing it with you. (The pictures are from a Life magazine spread about "Bebop craze bopsters Robert Clary, Ronny Graham and Virginia DeLuce." Don't know what that's all about. I found it searching "1950s jazz.") But enjoy the tunes.

Misc. WTFs

2010-08-06T00:01:00.003-04:00

Baked Goodies

2010-08-05T00:01:00.005-04:00

Baked goods
are not only good
they're good for you

Prewitched

2010-08-04T00:01:00.006-04:00

Darling Elizabeth Montgomery from a 1960 episode of The Untouchables called The Rusty Heller Story. It's now available on DVD.