“If you’re going to be bad, be bad; if you’re going to make being bad your career, do it all your life.”
In the case of Tempest Storm, the “bad” was to be a burlesque dancer and stripper; and she did it from her teens until… well, her last performance was at age 90. So let’s get on with the show:
Here she is in glorious Technicolor:
And here, at age 85:
And a redhead… wonderful, she was.
One more time:
Dita von Teese (50)
Patsy Palmer (51)
Kate Silverton (53)
(most kissable mouth on TV? I report, you decide)
Naomi Watts (54)
Carla Bruni (55)
And of course, Salma Hayek (57), because Salma
The next such post will most likely be the last. Try to contain your grief.
More on the above topic:
Kate Beckinsale (50)
Tamzin Outhwaite (52)
Suggested by Lecherous Reader CoffeeMan, Charlotte Ross (55)
Padma Lakshmi (56)
(my favorite little Indian takeout meal)
And in the Country Music Wing, Faith Hill (55)
Lee Ann Womack (57)
And of course, the obligatory Salma Hayek (57)
…because Salma, that’s why.
Martha Vickers never had much of a career in movies, and I don’t know why not. Maybe she was a lousy actress, or didn’t shag the right producers — it was the 1940s, who knows? Certainly, it could not have been because of her looks:
Just one of those mysteries, I guess.
More hotties over the half-century mark:
Heidi Klum (50)
Drea De Mateo (51)
Claudia Winkleman (51)
Giada De Laurentis (53)
Jennifer Aniston (54)
Monica Bellucci (57)
…and one more time, just because Salma:
Salma Hayek (57)
We take a break today from our regular Sunday programming — that of the study of classically-beautiful women — and pay homage to another group — those women who are neither classic nor even classy, but whose outstanding attributes deserve similar scrutiny.
Such as Brit actress Margaret Nolan: one of the “fringe” actresses who never made a serious impact on the cinema, but who always found work in movies of little redeeming social value (not that that’s important or anything, when it comes to the movies). So here’s Margaret:
And in glorious Technicolor:
Nothing much wrong with that, and whole lot right.