I first saw Carole Bouquet back in the mid-70s at an art-house movie cinema in Johannesburg, in Luis Buñuel’s classic That Obscure Object Of Desire. Good grief.
What’s that? Color? I’ll give you color:
And she hasn’t got any uglier as she’s aged, either:
Lovely.
As promised, here’s La Bella Claudia in glorious color:
And my favorite of them all: Hot, dusty and in boots.
Que bella.
She passed away just this past week, at age 87. I’ve featured Claudia Cardinale before (here), but this magnificent woman truly deserves a full post all to herself. Let’s start with the black & white series:
And still beautiful, even as she aged:
Next week, Claudia in color.
Perrie Edwards was more-or-less named after Steve Perry from Journey, and started off her singing career as a member of an all-girl band named Little Mix (no, I couldn’t hum one of their songs either, even at gunpoint).
She has, to my eyes, a kind of old-fashioned beauty, hence her appearance on these pages.
This is quite a resume. As a professional dancer, she danced all over Europe and at the Folies Bergère in her hometown of Paris, acted in a couple of French movies… and then Olympe Bradna emigrated to the U.S., getting a seven-year contract at Paramour Pictures — at age 16. She starred in a few musicals, then graduated to more dramatic roles and proved to be a really good actress.
Then, at age 21 — no doubt to the consternation of studio executives — she got married and quit the movie business forever, preferring to raise her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in California (back when it was still possible to do so).
Almost all the pictures featured below, therefore, are of Olympe while she was still a teenager. Remarkable.
She passed away at age 92.
“Reality” TV starlet Maura Higgins, for your delectation:
