Tag: Classic Women

Rosalind Russell was one of those impossibly-beautiful and classy women of Hollywood’s Golden Era.  When I first started putting this piece together, though, I couldn’t remember if I’d ever seen her in a movie.  But as I looked at her pics, it all came back to me:  His Girl Friday with Cary Grant, Mourning Becomes Electra with Michael Redgrave, and of course The Women — where she more than held her own against such divas as Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Ruth Hussey and Joan Fontaine.  (All three movies come highly recommended, if you haven’t seen any of them before.)

And then there was that beauty and class:

I think I’m going to look for some of her other movies to watch, and marvel.

Okay, she was first and foremost a ballet dancer (Sadlers Wells Company at age 14!), and only moved to movies later.  Don’t care.  Flame-haired Moira Shearer (Lady Moira to you peasants) was extraordinary.

All class, all the time.

She is quite possibly one of the most sensual women of all time, and I for one am not going to argue with that description of Anouk Aimée.

And she could do classy as well as slatternly:

She was the sexiest of the Sexy 60s era.  Just watch her in the 1966 movie A Man And A Woman, and you’ll see what I see.