Greatest Hollywood Sweetheart?

DEFTLEFTHAND

I watched Rear Window on Netflix last night with Grace Kelly. God she was some looking broad in her day.

Another one is Lauren Bacall, she was drop dead gorgeous. How did an ageing Humphrey Bogart get a hold of her. Guess it might have been down to his status and wealth.

Chain Smoker

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Another one is Lauren Bacall, she was drop dead gorgeous. How did an ageing Humphrey Bogart get a hold of her. Guess it might have been down to his status and wealth.

It was her first major role and she was barely 19. Probably initially hugely star struck and if it was a first love dealio beyond that, that'd hold the relationship steady on her end. The horrific marriage Bogart was in for the 6 years prior would've left him pretty eager to settle down too, I'm sure.


One thing remember about all of those hollywood women of the studio era (i.e. up to the early 60s) is that the studios made it a priority to never let out a photo (hell, even a single frame of a film) of them where they're not as well lit as possible. It's totally unfair to compare the significantly less protected stars of other eras to them.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It was such a massive gap in age when they first hooked up, Bogie was 25 years older than her. She gave him two Kids, the eldest Steven says he remembers a very good relationship between his parents before his father died.

An interesting fact is that that Bogie ran a drinking club known as the Holmby Hills Drinking Society. A young Frank Sinatra joined the club during Bogies last years. Frank was an up and coming guy and had Mafia connections from New York, Bogie's home town.

Bacall would refer to the Holmby Hills Drinking Society as the "Rat Pack" . A group of degenerate men who lazed around drinking hard liquor and chain smoking cigarettes.

Frank would later make something out of that tag.

Winterlong

Sophie Loren was, and always will be, the ultimate Hollywood siren for me.

But Humphry DeForest Bogart will always be the ultimate male Hollywood actor....despite his parents giving him such a strange moniker.

Ted111

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

How did an ageing Humphrey Bogart get a hold of her.

He gave her a shlap.
Broads love a shlap.

Sham.no2

Jenna Haze

Your Face

Ava Gardner.

The Rape of Lucretia

Mary Pickford. There will never be another like her. No one has even gotten close. America's Sweetheart, and always will be.

getzls

Green Garson
Ingrid Bergman

The Backwards Man

Olivia De Havilland for me, she was the one that broke the studio system of treating actors like cattle.


Still alive too!

Outlaw Pete

Are we talking babe factor or what?

If so Olivia de Havilland was the most underrated in that regard for me anyway. One of the original Maid Marians.

There's still hope for me too she's still with us and turned 100 earlier this year.

EDIT: Great minds, Backwards Man.

Overall though, if I could back in time and schmooze one, it would have to be Vivian Leigh.

Lauren Bacall was some lady. I love Ava Gardner too, such a beauty and by all accounts no pushover.

The lady I'm most intrigued by is Hedy Lamarr who was also a prolific inventor, and is responsible for the ideas behind the technology that brought us mobile phones and certain missile guidance systems. She was also voted the most beautiful woman in the world in her prime.

Lamarr and Gardner are so alike they could pass as sisters.

LETHAL LADY

I love the old black and white movies. There wasn't much else on in the early 80's to be fair. I used to always mix up James Stewart and Clark Gable for some reason. Turns out Clark Gable had foul breath though (tenia halitosis) so I'd say if I'd met them in the flesh I might have been able to tell them apart :-)

BabyE

James Jimmy Dean

getzls

BabyE wrote: »

James Jimmy Dean

The Human Ashtray.

Dirty Dingus McGee

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I love the old black and white movies. There wasn't much else on in the early 80's to be fair. I used to always mix up James Stewart and Clark Gable for some reason. Turns out Clark Gable had foul breath though (tenia halitosis) so I'd say if I'd met them in the flesh I might have been able to tell them apart :-)

Clark Gable and James Stewart look nothing like each other.

Olishi4

I never really thought much about Elizabeth Taylor. I don't recall ever seeing her in a movie. My mam keeps telling me that I should watch "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf".

I came across some extracts from Richard Burton's diary and some of the things he writes about her are so funny and sometimes really insulting but apparently thats how they were to one another. Seems like they had a bit of a love/hate relationship! Some of the things he wrote about her did make me laugh and find her a bit more endearing.

"I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a moral man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!"

HensVassal

Olishi4 wrote: »

I never really thought much about Elizabeth Taylor. I don't recall ever seeing her in a movie. My mam keeps telling me that I should watch "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf".

I came across some extracts from Richard Burton's diary and some of the things he writes about her are so funny and sometimes really insulting but apparently thats how they were to one another. Seems like they had a bit of a love/hate relationship! Some of the things he wrote about her did make me laugh and find her a bit more endearing.

"I have been inordinately lucky all my life but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth. She has turned me into a moral man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody’s fool, she is a brilliant actress, she is beautiful beyond the dreams of pornography, she can be arrogant and wilful, she is clement and loving, Dulcis Imperatrix, she is Sunday’s child, she can tolerate my impossibilities and my drunkenness, she is an ache in the stomach when I am away from her, and she loves me!"

You most definitely should watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Brilliant performances all round but the exchanges between Burton and Taylor are incredible.
I recall being told that they were going through a particularly acrimonius divorce during the filming and this makes the performances all the more compelling.

Son Of A Vidic

There were so many true, natural beauties in Hollywood of the 40's, 50's and 60's. But the iconic Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind, would have me wrapped around her little finger.

Summer wind

My favourite is Marilyn Monroe. I also like Sophia Loren and Rita Hayworth.

Ehm.

Jenna Jameson.

I mean she was in a movie, so she counts.

... Also Jenna Jameson movie, as it turns out, is not something you should look up on Google while you're in work ...

Dirty Dingus McGee

Claudia Cardinale in the Pink Panther was something else.

fryup

Brittany Murphy had she lived longer could have been a great Hollywood sweetheart

pity she died so young:(

HS3

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Jennifer Grey as Baby House man in Dirty Dancing

Ted111

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyHkKUcrgq4

Grayson

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Clark Gable and James Stewart look nothing like each other.

They do on one of these.

Ted111

What about a lap dance from Ginger Rogers?

Grayson

HS3 wrote: »

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Jennifer Grey as Baby House man in Dirty Dancing

Those two don't belong in the same post. I have to agree, although it's cliched to say Hepburn she was amazing.

I'm going to go with a different Hepburn, Kathleen. She was amazing and could probably kick the ass of most stars/starlets.

I'm also going to add Rosalind Russell. His Girl Friday is one of the funniest movies from back then.

Alcoheda

Scarlett Johansson