Category: Classic Beauty

It doesn’t help that Natalie Wood fell into that era of women and their style which has been my downfall ever since I can remember.  Here’s what I mean by that obscure sentence, in black and white:

And in color:

Stunning, and timeless.

Born in Germany (but claimed by the French),  Romy Schneider straddled the black & white and color eras, and was equally beautiful in both:

I could go on, and on, and on… but I think you get the idea.

I remember once going through one of Connie’s photo albums, and finding a pic of an impossibly-glamorous older woman.  “Who is that?” I asked.

“Oh, that’s my old acting teacher, Nina Foch.”

Here she is, not as an older woman:

 

Wow.

Back to the silent movies we go, with actress (and later producer) Norma Talmadge:

You know, my problem with all the stars of this era is that the pics were so stylized that very little of the actresses’ character shone through (which is why so many of them look so alike).  Here, for example, is a much later pic of Norma, taken when she was (I think) in her late fifties, and the difference is astonishing:

Gorgeous.

Let us ponder the mysteries of life, such as how someone like Claire Dodd could have lived at the same time as Eleanor Roosevelt without a rending of the time/space continuum.

Don’t know what I’m talking about?  Here’s Claire, first as a youngin:

And then in her prime:

Now compare that with any photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt (no, I’m not going to do it, find your own pic), and get back to pondering.

I think Donna Reed was one of the most beautiful women ever to step in front of a camera.  Feel free to argue with me, but you’d be wrong.

Still want to argue?

Didn’t think so.