Category: Classic Beauty

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.

She started off as a ballet dancer, but during the Swinging Sixties Ingrid Boulting found her niche as one of the miniskirted models in the Twiggy/Jean Shrimpton genre:

Note the period’s dramatic style:

 

She’s often described as “South African”, but that’s just an accident of birth. Her parents were both Brits, and went back to Britishland soon after she was born.

Apparently, she’s now a yoga teacher in Southern California.

As the numeral in the title may indicate, this is not our first look at the best thing to come out of Sweden since the Mauser 96.  I don’t care;  beauty is worth regarding in all its variations, so here are a few more variations of Anita Ekberg:

If I’ve posted one or two of these pics before, my apologies.