Tag: Classic Women

Despite Anya Taylor-Joy being saddled with several dreadful-but-period-correct hairstyles in The Queen’s Gambit, I was captivated by this doll-like creature, and that has not changed since:

Lovely.

Let’s hear it for the 1960s, and models like Hungarian beauty Zsusa Vellai:

 

From Wikipedia:  “Olive Ann Alcorn was Olive an American dancer, model, and silent film actress of the 1910s and 1920s. She is better remembered today for the numerous nude photographs of her from the era than for her film work.”

Oh.

Okay, then…

…and that’s it.  Of course, we all know that Wikipedia often lies;  and this would appear to be one of those times.

That, or her Mafia boyfriend* had them all destroyed.

Sorry about that.

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*I have no idea if she had a Mafia boyfriend.

Ann Rutherford was my kinda gal.  Her speech teacher told her she’d never be anything, so she faked a resume, got a job on  radio and then in 1935 became a huge star, acting in Westerns, romances and ten (!) movies as Polly Benedict, the girlfriend of Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney).  Take that, speech teacher.

Then she quit acting in 1950 and did rich woman stuff (she was married to the guy who owned the May department store chain).  And yeah, she was gorgeous:

Voted “Most Beautiful Girl Next Door, Ever” in a recent poll SOTI.

Was there ever a screen name that says “All-Murkin Gal” any better than “Julie Adams”?  And the original Betty May Adams was from Iowa, even better.

“Who she, Kim?” you may ask.

Well, old-time movie fans would know her as the hottie from Creature From The Black Lagoon, but I’ll show those pics at the end.  Here she is:

That All-American Girl thing:

But on with the good stuff we go.

 

…wait, here’s a better one, with a Mauser:

And those Black Lagoon  pics?

Scary.