If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

[filfoster]

Golden Girls

Carole Lombard. Beauty and FUN.

 

[Miss Pinup]

Audrey Hepburn for me, always wanted to look like her.

 

[thunderw21]

For me there's no contest: Grace Kelly.

 

[Eva Morsikova]

I'm going to be predictable again and say Marlene Dietrich.

 

[Eva Morsikova]

Carole Lombard. Beauty and FUN.

She was also amazing.

 

[Dr Doran]

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]

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]

Barbara Stanwyck also has one of sexiest voices ever. Good Lord...

Killing me.

 

[thunderw21]

Those Grace Kelly shots are heart-stopping...

We need more, then!

 

[Dr Doran]

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.)

 

[Spitfire]

Anybody needs more Sophia...?

...:whistling

 

[Laura Chase]

Spitfire, you truly are missing Italy, huh?

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

 

[cherry lips]

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.

 

[Lawman]

.....the YOUNG Lana Turner

 

[Dr Doran]

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.

 

[Laura Chase]

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

Hihi. I just don't see it in her eyes, you know...

 

[Dr Doran]

Hihi. I just don't see it in her eyes, you know...

All right, I see your point now.

 

[Laura Chase]

However, I certainly do understand that you men are smitten with Barbara Stanwyck, she has that little something that makes her interesting to look at:

 

[BeBopBaby]

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]

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

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