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Golden Girls
Carole Lombard. Beauty and FUN.
Carole Lombard. Beauty and FUN.
She was also amazing.filfoster said:Carole Lombard. Beauty and FUN.
Barbara Stanwyck also has one of sexiest voices ever. Good Lord...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.
Lamplight said:Barbara Stanwyck also has one of sexiest voices ever. Good Lord...
Laura Chase said:For me, Grace Kelly is pretty mundane. Maybe too prim and proper for my tastes. [huh]
Doran said:But sometimes its the properest and primmest people who turn out to be the most ... oh never mind.
Laura Chase said:Hihi. I just don't see it in her eyes, you know...
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:
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Shirley/images9/gallery/shirley_color1949.jpg
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Shirley/images9/gallery/shirley_color1943.jpg
http://www.classicmoviekids.com/images/t/temple/temple321.jpg
http://www.shirleytempledolls.com/photos/208.jpg
http://www.shirleytempledolls.com/photos/204.jpg