Classic Beauty: Peggie Castle

What I find interesting about 50s actress Peggie Castle is that depending on her hair color and pose, she either looks like the girl next door, or else the girl you’re having an affair with — the latter noted by the usual suspects, who say that she was often cast as “the other woman”.  A casual scrutiny of her pics will reveal the dichotomy.

Whichever, still alluring.

Classic Beauty: Lana Turner

After her very first movie role (in a bit part) at the age of 15, Lana Turner’s appearance in a sweater caused a critic to write that she “made a sweater look like something Cleopatra was saving for the next visiting Caesar”, and the nickname of “Sweater Girl” stuck.  And in the following decades, it was hard to find a movie that didn’t include her in the cast.  Here’s the look that started it all:

And the rest:

I think the reason for her popularity is understandable.

Classic Beauty: Rhonda Fleming

When your first serious movie role is that of a nymphomaniac at age 22, and you have to look the word up in the dictionary… that’s Rhonda Fleming for you.

And y’all know how much I love redheads.

It’s a good thing she came along when color became the thing in movies, or else we’d have lost that lovely red hair, and had to make do with pics like this:

Just… exquisite.