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If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

thunderw21

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For me there's no contest: Grace Kelly.

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Dr Doran

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Those Grace Kelly shots are heart-stopping, but for me it's Barbara Stanwyck. The anklet (and ankle) on the staircase in Double Indemnity ... and the pure EVIL that she can emanate ... wow. Sign me up.
 

Lamplight

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Doran said:
Those Grace Kelly shots are heart-stopping, but for me it's Barbara Stanwyck. The anklet (and ankle) on the staircase in Double Indemnity ... and the pure EVIL that she can emanate ... wow. Sign me up.
Barbara Stanwyck also has one of sexiest voices ever. Good Lord...
 

Dr Doran

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Mon coeur s'abime.

Especially the last shot ...

(Don't get me wrong, Morsikova -- Dietrich is great too, and I listen to her music all the time.)
 

cherry lips

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For me there is only one man and one woman that I'd make love to from the old days: Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor.
Even if the men back then dressed well, there weren't so many pretty boys (which I prefer), mostly older men or men with odd face shapes! I'm a sucker for the young Paul in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. His blue eyes shoot into my heart like arrows.
On the contrary, there were lots of lovely women, but only one can make me forget that I'm hetero. Liz makes me weak in the knees in the late 40s, 50s, and 60s! Her face and body are the impossible, but perfect, match. The fact that she's been mentioned here before only makes me jealous.
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Dr Doran

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Laura Chase said:
For me, Grace Kelly is pretty mundane. Maybe too prim and proper for my tastes. [huh]

But sometimes its the properest and primmest people who turn out to be the most ... oh never mind.
 

BeBopBaby

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For lack of a better term, I think Barbara Stanwyck had moxie and it showed. And she had a brain to match. Her career started in 1930 and she worked until the 1980s. How many golden era stars can make the same claim?
 

cherry lips

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Jack Armstrong, I think you have great taste! The grown-up Shirley Temple reminds me of Norma Jean Baker, only (if possible) even cuter! Shirley is such a doll, sweet as the drink named after her :)

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Jack Armstrong said:
For openers, even though she's not a Golden Ager, I have to insist that Hayley Mills was the greatest Classic Babe of all time. No question. If ever there was an angel incarnate, it was her.

But if we're sticking to the Golden Age, then it has to be Judy Garland. Brilliant, beautiful, unbelievably talented -- she had it all. Every time I see Girl Crazy (which devotes entirely too much time to the annoying Mickey Rooney), I go Judy Crazy all over again. What a doll.

That said, there's one other Classic Babe whom I'm very surprised hasn't been mentioned at all yet: Shirley Temple. Once she outgrew her obnoxious Good Ship Lollipop phase, Shirley was a major contender in the Dynamite Babe category:

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