Category: Beauty

Ann Rutherford was my kinda gal.  Her speech teacher told her she’d never be anything, so she faked a resume, got a job on  radio and then in 1935 became a huge star, acting in Westerns, romances and ten (!) movies as Polly Benedict, the girlfriend of Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney).  Take that, speech teacher.

Then she quit acting in 1950 and did rich woman stuff (she was married to the guy who owned the May department store chain).  And yeah, she was gorgeous:

Voted “Most Beautiful Girl Next Door, Ever” in a recent poll SOTI.

Was there ever a screen name that says “All-Murkin Gal” any better than “Julie Adams”?  And the original Betty May Adams was from Iowa, even better.

“Who she, Kim?” you may ask.

Well, old-time movie fans would know her as the hottie from Creature From The Black Lagoon, but I’ll show those pics at the end.  Here she is:

That All-American Girl thing:

But on with the good stuff we go.

 

…wait, here’s a better one, with a Mauser:

And those Black Lagoon  pics?

Scary.

And at last we can look at Brazilian actress Odete Lara, who appeared in over three dozen Brazilian movies — and absolutely none out of Hollywood, which is why most of us have never heard of her.

And she also cut more than a few record albums, so the lady could sing.

Magnificent.