Dialogfan Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Who is the most adorably cute actress? (from the '30s) Not glamorous but really girl next door incredibly insufferably cute! Sylvia Sidney? Janet Gaynor? Simone Simon? Marian Marsh? Others? I am going to vote for Janet Gaynor...though I am sure there are many others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Paulette Godard? Judy Garland? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffite Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Aforementioned Marian Marsh has my vote ... for now. (Don't worry, Marian, you're gonna be hard to beat.) Just the 30s, right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody1949 Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 When I was still not quite a teenager yet in 1954, I saw SUSAN SLEPT HERE. I had a crush on an actress I had never seen before named Debbie Reynolds. I started to watch all the movies Debbie Reynolds starred in including of course TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR. As I got older I became more attracted to more ,shall we say, voluptuous actresses. Rita Hayworth in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER, COVER GIRL and GILDA were at the top of the list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Shirley Temple, Drew Barrymore and Virginia Lee Corbin (silent era) Television Susan Olsen (Brady Bunch) but she grew out of it quickly) Couple of foreign actresses considered the cutest. Korean, Kim Yoo Bin. Mexican, Danna Paola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Dorothy Coonan (Wellman) "Wild Boys of the Road"- What a doll! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I agree that Janet Gaynor was the cutest adult actress in those days. Shirley Temple was very cute, but another cute child was Dorothy Ann Seese, who played little Phronsie in the "Five Little Peppers" movie series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Actress? Adorably cute? 1930s? Una Merkel here gets MY vote... (...heck...even her NAME is "cute") 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I agree that Janet Gaynor was the cutest adult actress in those days. Shirley Temple was very cute, but another cute child was Dorothy Ann Seese, who played little Phronsie in the "Five Little Peppers" movie series. Never heard of her before, thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dialogfan Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 You folks are good! I should have qualified even further: Adult female actress from the '30's. By the time Shirley Temple was a young adult, she was still adorably cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I would add JOAN BLONDELL to the list. As far as the '30's go. and adult age too. For KIDS, and over the decades, add MARGARET O'BRIEN, NATALE WOOD and DARLA HOOD.. HALEY MILLS too. Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movie Collector OH Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 You folks are good! I should have qualified even further: Adult female actress from the '30's. By the time Shirley Temple was a young adult, she was still adorably cute! Hmm No Maureen O'Sullivan yet. Definitely agree on Janet Gaynor, in Sunnyside Up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenex Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Dargo said: Actress? Adorably cute? 1930s? Una Merkel here gets MY vote... (...heck...even her NAME is "cute") Una Merkel was adorable, and I loved her quirky comedy that went with it like in "42nd st", "Born to dance", and "Broadway melody 36". Ruby Keeler was one of the loveliest and most adorable 1930s women of all. Loved her in all her Busby Berkeley and post Busby Berkeley films. Ruby was wonderful in "Dames" (particularly in "I only have eyes for you"), "Footlight parade" (particularly in "By a waterfall"), "42nd st" (particularly in title number), "Flirtation walk" (very nice in title number and "Mr. and Mrs. is the name"), "Coleen" (very nice in "I don't have to dream again" and "You gotta know how to dance"), "Get into your dance" (very nice with hubby Jolson in "Quarter to nine"), and others. Ruby also made that dazzling comeback 30 years later in "No, no Nanette". I also loved the sweet Gloria Stewart, who was also a beautiful darling woman. In "Gold diggers 35" during the wonderful bookends of the girls on pianos number "The words are in my heart", while Dick Powell sang to her, Gloria looked like an angel. She looked so sweet and gorgeous sitting under that blossom tree in that beautiful, very large ruffled dress. Gloria was also beautiful in numerous other 1930s films including "The invisible man", and when she sang while playing piano in one 1930s film, went blank on the name. Like Ruby, she made a fabulous comeback decades later with her infamous appearance as old Rose in "Titanic". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 23 minutes ago, Allenex said: I also loved the sweet Gloria Stewart, who was also a beautiful darling woman. In "Gold diggers 35" during the wonderful bookends of the girls on pianos number "The words are in my heart", while Dick Powell sang to her, Gloria looked like an angel. She looked so beautiful sitting under that blossom tree in her beautiful, very large ruffled dress. Gloria was also beautiful in numerous other 1930s films including "The invisible man", and when she sang while playing piano in one 1930s film, went blank on the name. Like Ruby, she made a fabulous comeback decades later with her infamous appearance as old Rose in "Titanic". Her last name is spelled "Stuart". Strangely, her actual last name was spelled "Stewart", but she always used "Stuart" in her acting career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenex Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 17 minutes ago, LawrenceA said: Her last name is spelled "Stuart". Strangely, her actual last name was spelled "Stewart", but she always used "Stuart" in her acting career. Yes, that's right, I keep forgetting. That also explains why a couple of times when I googled Gloria spelling it Stewart instead of Stuart, Gloria Stewart, the wife of James Stewart popped up, who spells it Stewart, instead of the Gloria I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickAndNora34 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Myrna Loy (at least in her comedic roles in anything with Bill Powell) Here's a clip of her from "Third Finger Left Hand" in which she pretends to be illiterate in front of Melvyn Douglas' hometown neighbors in order to get back at him. Side note: I think her voice was adorably flute-like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SullivansTravels Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Jean Porter Judy Strangis Butterfly McQueen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight08 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Nancy Carroll. She had that cute pixie quality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 On 11/17/2016 at 7:16 AM, Dialogfan said: By the time Shirley Temple was a young adult, she was still adorably cute! Fox has added her surviving late-50's "Shirley Temple Storybook" color-TV episodes to her 30's child-musicals on DVD, and...yes, she's still cute. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Thought I Google this topic and Imdb showed me a list of dogs. (cutest? no way in hell!) 2 of the modern day cutest actresses seems to be foreign. Rakul Preet Singh from Malaysia Parl Min-Young from South Korea (nice to see something Korean that's not 리방법名카지노 spam! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 1 hour ago, EricJ said: Fox has added her surviving late-50's "Shirley Temple Storybook" color-TV episodes to her 30's child-musicals on DVD, and...yes, she's still cute. I loved this show when I was a little girl. And I even had the book to go along with the stories. About that time Ideal had a 1950's style Shirley Temple doll out which I got for Christmas. I loved it a lot but when I sold it, a few years back, I did okay. However, the lady I sold it to told me I could have done a lot better if I had had one of the original 1930s dolls. I told her--I'm old, but I'm not that old! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephan55 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Wow, too many cuties to choose just one (or two, or three, or....). (seems like my eyes have always been bigger than my.... in that regard) Of course if child stars were allowed it would be Shirley Temple hands down. But restricted to just adult female actresses from the 30's,.... I'll just add a couple that haven't been mentioned yet that have always caught my fancy.Anita Louise and Dolores Costello. Maybe not quite as cutesy as some already mentioned, but still quite alluring in a very "cute" way I think. Trouble finding a single cute picture to display for these dolls, so....https://duckduckgo.com/?q=anita+louise+photos+actress&t=ffab&ia=images&iax=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fclassicfilmaficionados.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fanitalouise307.jpg http://fanpix.famousfix.com/gallery/anita-louise/p46396767 https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/dolores-costello/pictures/dolores-costello-2015.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Another cute child star.... Jean Darling from the "Our Gang - Little Rascals" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Jean Harlow cute adult actress 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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