I was watching The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer the other night (for about the tenth time), and once again was struck by the beauty of Myrna Loy.
As a silent star, she was girlish:
…and then she grew up into the early 1930s-era of cute, witty and sexy women:
…and finally blossomed into full, sophisticated womanhood:
And she did all this despite having had the world’s worst hairstyles inflicted on her.
Gorgeous.
I see that Carmen Electra just had a birthday, and I have to admit that she’s not bad for a 50-year-old broad:
However, no amount of sexiness, hotness or other such descriptors can overcome the heritage of once having been Mrs. Dennis Rodman:
Hard pass.
One of the few actresses (or actors) of the time who got exponentially wealthier after she retired from acting — and not by marriage, either. None of that’s important, because whoa:
Not to mention her sensational legs:
Oh…and did I mention that she was also a dancer?
Dancer, actor, Playboy pinup (in the days when there were no airbrushes or Photoshop)… and lifelong buddy of Clint Eastwood.
Oh, that Playboy spread, you ask?
…about clothing, and the appropriate wearing thereof. First, the plaudits.
I have always had an old-man crush on Anya Taylor-Joy, the chick from that chess movie, and her latest appearance did nothing to end that for me:
Best legs I’ve seen in quite a while, so why shouldn’t she show them off?
Her boyfriend, despite looking a little like a taller Frodo Baggins, was at least appropriately attired:
The same stylish and appropriate attire did not extend to some of the rest of the male(?) attendees. The Skarsgård boy (Anya’s co-star in the movie) wore a tee shirt:
…while the editor of British Vogue looked like a morning Tube commuter:
…and the whole thing went rapidly downhill from there:
This post has been brewing for a while, because a couple weeks ago at some other movie premiere / red carpet thing, we were treated to this horrifying nonsense:
Seriously? At a formal evening event?
Compare the above with the 1940 Academy Awards banquet:
‘Nuff said.
One of the most beautiful women ever. David Niven once said of her that “she glowed”, and I’m not going to argue with him.
We’ll look at her sister at a later date…