Category: Classic Beauty

Last time we saw saw Margaret Nolan, she was lying dead on a bed, painted gold.  But she had a life before then:

And in that vein:

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We’ve looked at Stephanie Beacham before (here), but why not a continuation?

And of more recent vintage:

She may be past her prime, so to speak, but even her post-prime still keeps up with the youngins.

We’re keeping it All-American on this website for the July 4 weekend, hence the second appearance of Rhonda Fleming.

“Wait, Kim… wasn’t she a redhead?”

Why yes;  yes she was.  But we can look at those pics some other time. [/tease]

Here’s an interesting one.  Born in Austria, Rose Stradner eventually found her way over to Hollywood, starred in a couple decent movies — she was an excellent actress — and ended up marrying director Joe Mankiewicz.

That’s the bare bones of it.  In fact, she was schizophrenic, a condition which went ballistic if she had a few cocktails — and she loved to drink.  In fact, the memorable expression “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!” was supposedly coined during a dinner party when Rose started to go off the edge, then later used in All About Eve.

It all ended when she popped a jugful of sleeping tablets, at age 45.

This cool Norwegian beauty queen might have been the poster girl for the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Why?  Silly question:

“Ummm… how about some more colorful pics, Kim?”

And one last thought:

Italian name, played a Greek woman in The Guns Of Navarone… all very exotic except that Gia was actually born in Liverpool, to a Sicilian father and Irish mother, with the family name of Scoglio.  But nobody really cares what she was called, because:

And in the Navarone movie, where she’s exposed [sic] as a traitor:

Speaking of exposure:

It didn’t end well for our girl;  she was a victim of Teh Booze And Drogges, and she died of an overdose thereof at age 38.

What a waste.