If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

[Black Dahlia]

Wow! Definitely agree with Gale Storm. I watch "My Little Margie", even though the plots are annoying, just to see her.

I don't blame you, she's a real doll!
X
BD

 

[TSP13]

This girl also might not be a star, but this photo is one of my favorites, and whoever this sweet girl is, I would marry her in a second. With most "motorcycle girls" of today being in trashy bikinis, it's so nice and refreshing to see a classy, simple girl giving the sweetest smile. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1071382/original.jpg It's a shame more women don't respect themselves so much these days, and men don't even want them to.

 

[RailRoad]

Garbo

 

[Fading Fast]

This girl also might not be a star, but this photo is one of my favorites, and whoever this sweet girl is, I would marry her in a second. With most "motorcycle girls" of today being in trashy bikinis, it's so nice and refreshing to see a classy, simple girl giving the sweetest smile. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1071382/original.jpg It's a shame more women don't respect themselves so much these days, and men don't even want them to.

Your comments touch on one of the themes from the thread "What Sparked Your Fascination with the Golden Era," which is that I was attracted to the Golden Era because of the classic movies I saw as a kid. The elegance of the clothes and the manners in those movies bespoke people who had greater respect for themselves than what I saw growing up in the late 60s / 70s.

And sex, drinking, crime, drugs and all the other realities of the world are in classic movies, but they are not always thrown in your face - people seemed to have more respect for how they presented themselves to others and how public they were with there weaknesses.

 

[Seraph1227]

Olivia DeHavilland, oh to be Erol Flynn

 

[Harp]

It's hard to top fellow Texan Linda Darnell:

My favorite.

 

[Fading Fast]

Olivia DeHavilland, oh to be Erol Flynn

While Olivia DeHavilland is a beautiful woman, I always thought her sister, Joan Fontaine, had a quieter, understated beauty.

 

[Unlucky Berman]

Linda Christian, the first Bondgirl :love:

 

[Two Types]

The one and only Hedy Lamarr

"It's Hedley!"

 

[Huertecilla]

Miss Bettie Page!

She was a role model for a whole movement and today is more popular than ever.*
Also was Arbib´s muse for the Hamilton Ventura.

* and a rare example of a social wrong coming round right as she lived the evening of her life receiving appreciation for what she did and enjoying royalties.

 

[rjb1]

Yes!! Bettie is as good as it gets - then or now...
(She is a graduate of Peabody College (Nashville, TN), which was integrated into Vanderbilt University a number of years ago. When that happened, all past Peabody grads were retroactively made Vanderbilt alumni. As a Vanderbilt alum myself, I can accurately say that I'm a college alumni with Bettie Page! Whenever I go over to Peabody I always think about the fact that I'm walking on the same sidewalks where she did. What I need is a time machine and a college reunion.)

 

[Benny Holiday]

My famous Bettie page tribute, written back in 1996 but still going strong nearly 20 years later:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IAb5Nwetcg

That song alone took me around the world twice!

 

[Huertecilla]

Thanks for sharing that link.

My gf is not shy and has a good quality Bettie Page wig :eusa_clap

Btw; shouldn´t the topic title be: ´If i coúld pick...´!! instead of the negative?

 

[Hercule]

Btw; shouldn´t the topic title be: ´If i coúld pick...´!! instead of the negative?

The negative is having to narrow it down to just one. Frankly, the more posts in this thread the harder it gets!

 

[Huertecilla]

The negative is having to narrow it down to just one.

Ah, but THAT is a concept imposed by the christian concept of heritage controll through monogamic exclusivity.
Today this model is actively supported by the state/economic interests as it promotes consumption of luxury goods.
Francoise Simpere wrote a good and spot on paragraph about that.

I say have fun and not with moderation!
Life is too short to wonder about what if.
A3VT! (go for it!)

 

[Matt Deckard]

I'm still for Clara Bow

 

[Harp]

Yes!! Bettie is as good as it gets - then or now...
I always think about the fact that I'm walking on the same sidewalks where she did.

I once lived at 1040 N LaSalle, Chicago down the street from her old apartment building.

 

[MissMittens]

Betty Page had the curves, Clara Bow had the attitude............

Have to be Clara

 

[Huertecilla]

Betty Page had the curves, Clara Bow had the attitude............

Have to be Clara

I have lived with a stunner with attitude and though it was wónderfull with not a negative worth mentiong, a quieter model has merits too when you get less wild yourself.

I find it most remarkable that both Page and Bow were diagnosed to be mentally ill. I am not sure what to make of that.

I find "They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples for me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs ... I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!"
telling.

 

[frussell]

I always wondered how well my grandfather knew Clara Bow, she seems pretty intrigued with him in this photo, but I never asked him. Frank.