Tag: Classic Women

Passing Parade

Gratuitous Chick Pics

I have never watched — nor would I ever — the awful Brit TV show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, which seems to feature people of dubious celebrity status being forced into some manky Australian camp for a couple of weeks and being forced to eat local delicacies such as wombat’s testicles and being covered with spiders and snakes.  (The latter, I have to assume, being of the very few non-venomous types to be found in that poxy country.)

Anyway, the only reason I mention this sorry event is that one of the recent “competitors” in this nonsense was a firm favorite on this here website, one Kelly Brook, who managed to survive the encounter unscathed.  Okay, apparently the awful diet of lizard’s brains etc. caused her to lose about 15lbs.

Let me reassure you all, however, that this weight did not disappear from the important part of young Kelly’s body, as witnessed by these after-show photos:

Damn… she causes the tinglies in several long-forgotten parts, doesn’t she?

Classic Beauty: Marisa Mell (1)

Classic Beauty

I found out about Austrian actress Marisa Mell in a roundabout sort of way.  I was watching one of those silly “10 Movies That People Have Foregotten”-kidd of video on EeeewChooob, when suddenly I saw a woman of outstanding beauty appear for a few seconds.  So of course I looked up the cast of said movie, and there she was (and here she is):

…and even as a blonde:

Next week, we’ll look at Marisa in color.  Try to contain yourselves.

Classic Beauty: Hildegard Knef

Classic Beauty

I can’t believe that I’ve never featured German hottie Hildegard Knef before.  Some salient facts about her:  in the dying days of WWII she disguised herself as a man and joined the German Wehrmacht  so she could fight the Russians alongside her lover;  she was the first woman to appear nude in a German-made film;  and after her acting career ended in the 1960s, at age 40 she went on to become a singer-songwriter and sold over 3 million records.

Just to backtrack a little:  her nude scene in Die Sünderin (The Sinner) caused all sorts of rumpus in Germany, to which she responded that considering that Germany had been responsible for Auschwitz, they shouldn’t get all upset about a nude scene (okay, stop laughing now:  she had a point).  Then there was the fact of her romance with a Nazi, which caused her all sorts of problems with the wokisti of the time, and which she explained away with the comment that she was only eighteen, and sometimes girls do stupid things.

Oh, and did I mention that she survived imprisonment in a Russian POW camp, back in 1945?

I wish I’d met her.

Here she’s singing Ich habe’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin, and in English, In This Old Town (both of which she wrote herself).  What a voice.

And what a woman.