Aaahhhh, Garbo. Nobody who has seen Anna Karenina or Ninotchka could avoid falling in love with her, as I most certainly did.
Here’s the reason for my infatuation with her. Apart from her astonishing beauty and sexy voice, she was someone after my own heart in that when she grew tired of her own celebrity and the whole Hollywood thing, she told everyone to take a hike and lived a life of her own, in seclusion.
My kinda gal.
Okay, I’m going to come right out and admit that I have had a love affair with the exquisite French actress and model Capucine ever since I saw first saw her in The Pink Panther. Why?
Well, apart from her beauty, it was her glamor, elegance, grace and did I say beauty? I mean, how much more does one need to worship a woman?
She was once called “the French Grace Kelly”, but I prefer those smoldering French features over the ice-blonde Kelly any day of the week.
Go ahead: argue with me, I dare you.
As much as I admired Dabney Coleman — and still do — I could never understand why he and wife Jean Hale got divorced. I mean:
I guess there’s just no good explanation.
Hmmmm another Texas girl, this time Fort Worth’s Martha Hyer, the impossibly-beautiful ice-cold blonde actress whose career spanned the late 1940s through the late 1960s.
Yeah, for the Safety Nazis complaining about the finger on the trigger: relax, Francis. It’s a single-action un-cocked revolver.
Anyway, someone that beautiful can hold a gun any damn way she wants.
If ever there was an actress who got crucified on the twin crosses of a pushy showbiz mother and a horny studio executive, that would be Dallas girl Linda Darnell (her story here). Her life could also be entitled: “Nice Girls Finish Last”, because the one thing about her that everyone ever agreed on was what a sweetie she was.
However, that’s not the story here. These pics are:
Because she’d been one of the youngest actresses to play adult women — she was barely 16 at the time she started — her movies didn’t show off her figure, and most especially not her legs (which were spectacular).
And when some more “grownup” pictures of her were published:
…she was promptly voted one of the “Four Most Beautiful Women in Hollywood” (alongside Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, and Gene Tierney — pretty exalted company).
Hardly surprising.