daddysprimadonna

I think Elvis was one of the sexiest men in history,and Clark Gable,especially as Rhett Butler. Which leads me to Vivien Leigh as one of the sexiest women-but my all-time favorite for sexiest woman is Norma Shearer-that woman could sizzle,and do it with class! Those George Hurrell pictures of her are so steamy,her eyes just melt you from right off the page.And he made her legs look good,even-bedroom eyes,bedroom hair,sleek-as-a-cat sexiness in the photographs,and on the screen in her films-she even made Marie Antoinette appear sexy! Even though I LOVED her in "The Women",until almost the end,her sex appeal was SO wasted in this movie.

I agree with you about Johnny Mack Brown,LOVED him in the silents with Joan Crawford.

LOL. I get it anyway. Sorry, can't help rambling!

I mean, he named me after her character in GWTW-Melanie.

Oh do I ever agree wth you on Olivia De Havilland in "Gone With The Wind", which is practically my all-time favorite movie! I actually thought that she was prettier than "Scarlett" in the movie,besides which my Daddy named me after her:)

That also reminds me of Katherine Hepburn meeting Spencer Tracy,they were going to do their first film together,and she said"I'll wear flats,I'm a little too tall for you",and he replied(or the man introducing them,there's two versions)"Don't worry,I'll soon cut you down to size".Hahaha!

Well, I agree that she can act,I also loved her in "Moonstruck"(surprising myself), and in "Mask"(thank God that Bob Seger did the singing!). And the actual words to her Hepburn tribute weren't bad-she DID gush, but a girl WILL do that on occasion:) I just can't STAND her voice-I hope that doesn't mean I'm going to Hell???? She can not stand my voice if she likes(though how anyone couldn't like a honey-dripping Southern accent is beyond me,hahaha).

Thank you,thank you,I dedicate this honor to all those daddy's girls out there,teehee.

Your love of Veronica(I love her too,she was sexy as all get out in that scene where she sang while doing magic tricks in the movie with Alan Ladd-shame on me,I can't remember the name)reminds me of a movie with Ginger Rogers,where she plays a juvenile girl to get a train ticket half-fare-she ends up having to stay overnight at a military academy,and there's a dance for the boys and some young ladies from a nearby girls' school-all the girls are "drips",in the words of the boys-there's a scene with them all sitting in a row waiting to be asked to dance-and every last one has Veronica's "peek-a-boo" hairdo-then the teacher-a sterotypical old maid-and she has one too,LOL. I think the movie was "The Major And The Minor"???

Well then you completely misunderstood me-I think short women are the stuff too,especially as I AM one! I thought it was interesting and surprising that some of these women,like Joan Crawford,who seem so "commanding" on the screen,were little petite women,is all.Some it's easy to imagine short-like the gorgeous Veronica-and some,when you find out it's a bit of a surprise-like Joan.Norma,my girl,I don't know if I was surprised or not.She seems so elegant and long-lined,to be a short woman-I think it's her long waist and the way she de-emphasised her legs. But short women rule,hahaha.

OK, maybe this will be considered "Cher-bashing",but..I can't STAND her voice,singing OR speaking,and hearing her talk about Katherine Hepburn or ANYthing is about as annoying to me as hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. Oh My God the nasality,the whiny pitch-yes, thank GOD for the mute button!!! I won't even talk about that fake annoying "vibrato" in her singing! And sometimes I get SO TIRED of "strong independent" women who seem to equate those qualities with having foul mouths and no manners-but I won't Cher-bash! Hehehe!

Umm, I bet you all knew that "woamn" was supposed to be "woman",LOL. And I was referring to Norma Sherarer in the first paragraph of my latter post! But she's still my top pick for beauty,even though I can't type:) That English/Scottish look-fair,light blue eyes,sharp aristocratic profile,"well-bred" look-there's just something more subtly appealing about it to me,more than the more blatantly "sexy" or flashy look. She looks like a thoroughbred,especially next to some of the "truck-driver queen" beauties,hehe.

And I love her particular style of figure-the streamlined,long-waised low-slung rear shape.She didn't have the best legs, but she didn't even need to,everything else was so elegant and perfectly porportioned. I read that the other actresses were envious of her flat tummy,and that swimming and diving were her favorite exercises.I believe it,with her wonderfully long elegant line.And she was another petite beauty-5'3", I think I read. So Art Deco,and so long-lined to be a short woamn! Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford were two more petite women with that low-slung rear,long-waisted,elegant line-but no one had Norma's poise and elegance.I much prefer that style of shape to the later 50's and beyond,voluptuous in-your-face(heh heh) look. Clothes looked so much better on them,and it was just so much more elegant!

I agree, Norma had a flirtatious glamor that no one else could touch,and that glorious chestnut hair! I also love Veronica Lake-I was so surpised when I read that she was something like 5 feet tall! What a truly pocket Venus:)

If he's the man responsible for those cool Hercules? Clash Of The Titans? Sinbad? movies, then heck yeah I'm a fan!

It's such an all-around great movie! I can't believe that I always cry at the end,Natalie Wood is so wonderful in this movie, the dancing is just great, and the songs, the story, the acting,EVERYthing! Yep, I have to gush when I just finished watching it! My aunt told me that when she was in high school and the movie came out, EVERYbody was doing "West Side Story" for the class play,it was so fresh and different,and girls would always sing "I Feel Pretty" for talent competitions,LOL. But it's a great song in a great movie!

Heh heh, that's funny, that Louis B was afraid of her-what justice, after all those other actresses he intimidated! LOL! I'd love to see that museum,in fact, the town sounds pretty interesting:)

Ava was such a beautiful and spirited lady-I read a story about how when they were filming "Night Of The Iguana",she used to water-ski across shark-infested waters over to where the filming was. I guess after George C Scott, a few sharks didn't faze her!

Lest we forget-Lana Turner-she was one of the most sizzling of them all! She just burns it up in "The Postman Always Rings Twice", but I loved her best in "Those Glamor Girls" and "Zeigfeld Girl".

> So you were referring to the way Marion Martin was > built? Okay, oopsie! Well, I STILL like the way > Stanwyck was built; my idea of an ideal figure. I like her figure too, and Joan Crawford's. I like the way they both had those "low slung" behinds(Edith Head, the designer,talks about it in her book)-they looked very Art Deco streamlined,and looked great in clothes.They could have been models for some of those Art Deco figurines!

Ava Gardner and Hedy Lamarr were famous for their "magnolia" white skin, and Rita Hayworth wasn't considered beautiful until she was "de-ethnicised" with electrolysis of her hairline,and lightening of her hair.There were some beautiful minority women in Hollywood who never got their full due,because of the climate of the times,but it takes more than being a brunette to be "ethnic". Ava was from a Southern family of Scots Irish ancestry(as are many in the South,especially in the Carolinas, and near the Appalachian areas).Hedy Lamarr was Austrian(I've read that she may have had some Jewish blood, but I don't know).Her first husband was pro-Nazi(she divorced him). Tallulah Bankhead has been paired with every other female in Hollywood, I tend to discount a lot of it-she would have had to have been three women to be with everyone she is said have been with,lol.

I THOUGHT I caught that when I watched "Men In White". "Animal Kingdom" was a VERY frank movie also-no abortion, but premarital sex and the wife "using" sex to get her way with the husband-the seduction scene with the champagne was very modern-I was surprised to see this frankness, even in a pre-Code,because it was played with complete seriousness and sincerity,and even in the free and easy pre-Codes,these things were often done with a wink and a chuckle, which could soften the impact. "Animal Kingdom" played it completely straight.

Heh heh, I like your turn of phrase-"holstering my sidearms", LOL-I feel like Annie Oakley, tee hee:) I can't begin to express how much I'm looking forward to "Chance At Heaven" at the end of March-I adore that movie! And I was thrilled to see "Private Lives" for the first time tonight-Norma Shearer is my favorite actress, but I really had to push a mental picture of Una Merkel in "Gold Diggers of 1933" out of my mind-and even though the theme song from that movie is "Somewhere I'll Find You", in the back of my mind during the whole movie, I kept hearing "Mad About The Boy", LOL. Noel Coward was a genius, I think. I need to learn more about him,what wit! It was funny to hear all the "English" characters in the movie speaking with Midwestern or trans-Atlantic accents(I'm not sure about Norma's, it never sounded Canadian to me,though she was Canadian).That reminds me of Clark Gable refusing to speak in a Southern accent in "Gone With The Wind"(and I would know, I'm as Deep South as it gets:)) Though my accent is different from Georgia or a Carolina accent-I seem to recall, in the book, Scarlett saying that it tired her Georgia ears to hear the flatter Carolina accent.(It wouldn't tire me, I love all the Southern accents,and the British ones, and the Katherine Hepburn-Bette Davis style New England ones-heck,most all accents are fun!) I had to ramble, but it IS a LITTLE movie-related,LOL!

I'd love to see "Hollywood Party", is it for sale on tape or DVD? If so, I'll get it and watch-it sounds like fun:)

I'm pretty much out of it, after being shown a bit of reality-being an insomaniac maybe doesn't help:) I guess I'm just afraid it's going to become a "creeping trend"-and if no one says anything, the PTB will think we like or accept it, and start showing more new movies,and then there goes the only place to see all the old stuff that we CAME here for. I'll probably roll my eyes and be in a "snit" when thewy do it again, but I'll try to keep it to myself-unLESS it looks like they're trying to creep up on me with the new stuff.it FEELS that way, when it's in primetime,and when "Silent Sunday" is only once a week, or in the wee hours-I think maybe TCM is part of WHY I'm an insomniac,LOL.