Art, music, whatever
I don’t know if there was ever a more beautiful woman in the world than Gina Lollobrigida. This was her, at age 50:
Granted, it’s a studio shot, but still…
So here are some more “natural” shots of her:
And then there are the more well-known pics:
I have so MANY more pics of Gina, but I’d better stop or else we’ll still be here in a week’s time.
Si bella.
As a rule, I change the wallpaper on my laptop to no set schedule, and it depends on my mood at the time as to which new one I select. This Alan Fearnley pic, however, will probably stay there for quite some time… (right-click to embiggen)
She drove me crazy in Gone With The Wind as the goody-goody Melanie Wilkes, but Olivia De Havilland could do sexy with the best of them, too.
In that last pic, she could be Ingrid Bergman, or Patricia Neal — yes, she’s that beautiful.
And that soft, velvet voice… have mercy.
Here’s Episode 1 (which explains the background to this silliness), and this is the second such:
Ekin-Su Culculoglu
Olympia Valance
Addison Rae
Tallia Storm
And our Oldie-But-Still-Goodie:
Stephanie Seymour
More later, as the opportunity arises [sic].
Among all the other reasons we should like Gene Tierney, not the least is that she was a lifelong Republican. And then there are these:
Best of all, she was a noted party girl, who had flings with men all over the place. Nowadays, of course, that would be unremarkable. In those days… scandalous.
My kinda gal.
Never a great beauty, Barbara Stanwyck made up for it in spades by having the smart, no-nonsense sexuality that was capable of driving men insane — and not just on the screen. (Gary Cooper is reputed to have described acting with her as like acting with a tiger: you were never quite sure what she was going to do next, but if you were lucky, you wouldn’t end up being eaten alive.) And here she is (often, alas, a victim of the Bad Hairstyle Syndrome of the era):
And yes, back in her youth…
Wow.