As many of you know, Spicy loves her some vintage, well, everything.
I love the fashion, the hairstyles, and the makeup of the past, it was true glamour. So just for fun and to change it up around here a little bit (and because I am SICK and tired of all the Charlie Sheen/Gosslin B.S.), I dug up some photos of some of Hollywood’s hottest ladies from the past.
You may or may not know of most of these ladies, but in their time they were the epitome of style and grace.
Gloria Swanson, March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983, was mostly a silent film actress in the 20’s. In her lifetime she was married six times. She was quite the fashion icon, often donning beads, jewels, peacock and ostrich feathers, haute couture and anything extravagant. She stood 5′ tall.
Myrna Loy, August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993, is actually somewhat of a relative of mine. She was my grandmother’s second cousin and hailed from Montana. She made a few silent films, and in the beginning of her career she portrayed vampy Asian vixens. The 1934 film The Thin Man catapulted her to stardom and she went on to make films with Clark Gable. Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. She married four times and is buried in Helena, MT.
Betty Grable, December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973. You most likely know Betty from her famous WWII cheesecake pin-up poster, with her hair up, in a one-piece bathing suit peeking over her shoulder. It is rumored the shot was taken from her backside because she was pregnant at the time. Betty was best known for her amazing legs which were insured for a whopping $1,000,000 by Lloyds of London. Her last big hit was How to Marry a Millionaire with Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe. She married twice and died of lung cancer at the young age of 56.
Ava Gardner, December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990. Ava was one of Hollywood’s most famous actresses in the 1950’s. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo in 1953. She was married three times to three very famous gentlemen. Mickey Rooney (1942–1943), Artie Shaw (1945–1946) and Frank Sinatra (1951–1957). She died of pneumonia at the age of 67, and it was reported that after her death one of Sinatra’s daughter’s found her father at Ava’s bedside, slumped over, sobbing and unable to speak. Her cremated remains are at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, in the Mausoleum of the Golden West.
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Hope you enjoyed this visit back in time, I plan on doing more of these. I adore vintage Hollywood glamour.
xo
I love Myrna Loy. She was absolutely gorgeous!
They just don’t make ‘em like they used to…
I love Betty Grable! She’s always been a favorite of mine.
i loved this post! thanks!
The women were so flawless back then, just gorgeous!
Great collection of photos. Cannot wait to see more.
i love this. keep them coming! nothin like that classic, old-school beauty. like CelinaQ said “They just don’t make ‘em like they used to…”
Since you love vintage Hollywood and hot celebrity ladies, I was wondering if you saw this recently on CDaN (the consensus in the comments so far seems to suggest it was an actress not mentioned in your post):
This actress was definitely A list back in the day. And by back in the day, I mean prior to television. She was all movies. Our actress came from a very unstable background with perhaps the queen of stage moms as her mother. Our actress was never nominated for any of the big awards but starred in lots of movies. She was in and out of marriages frequently and one of the ways she got out of one was by killing her husband. Oh, not the husband everyone knows was found dead by a gunshot. Nope. He is considered her second husband, but in reality was her third. The second husband was a guy in the mafia who had seen our actress on screen and loved her. He wined her dined her and romanced her. Our actress loved it and eloped with him after just a few weeks. Well, at the same time this was happening our actresses career was about to skyrocket because she was moving to a new studio. The new husband wanted her to stay home and be a wife and our actress and her domineering mother wanted the big career. So, one night our actress and the man who would be her next husband and her next victim killed her husband of two months and buried him in the desert. It is said that the reason her next husband was killed was revenge by the mafia but I say it was our actress who saw a future which was brighter with a new man in her life. With divorce not an option, a gun was.
They are all gorgeous. Woman looked so much better back in those days because they actually had meat on their bones…When Woman actually looked like Woman and not coat hangers.
No matter what, I will always have the biggest crush on Audrey Hepburn.