I’ve never seen any of her silent- or talkie movies, but I have to admit that I am fascinated by this willowy Brit actress (born in Germany to a Russian mother: why not British?).
She even appeared in a commercial — some time, I suspect, before it became popular.
Classically beautiful.
Somewhat more modern, Stella Stevens is still a classic beauty:
Didn’t look too bad in color either:
Of course, there was the Playboy thing:
…and still sexy at 60-ish:
Let’s hear it for the girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi…
Wanna meet Giada Di Laurentiis’s Nana? Here she is, Silvana Mangano:
More Silvana? Why, certainly:
Stunning. Absolutely worthy of being alongside Sophia and Gina.
Baby-faced (literally: she appeared in her first movie at age 13) Irish actress Peggy Cummins was often turned down for movie roles because she was too young. (Nowadays, of course, she’d be Polanski-bait.) But enough of that; here’s a sample:
Gun Crazy (she wasn’t — that was just the name of her most famous movie).
Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College. Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:
And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:
I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts. A fitting end, I think, to this series.
Here’s the lovely TV actress Samia Longchambon, who first appeared on Britsoap Coronation Street back in 2000 at age 18, and twenty-three years later, is still at it. Here she is as a youngin:
And now, at around age 40:
…this one was taken last week:
Lovely.