Most Glamorous women ever part #2 : Elizabeth Taylor and Others.

Link to part 1

Three of the top glamor icons of the 50s: Audrey Liz and Marilyn

If you look closer, they all used makeup and hair to emphasize just how small-jawed and full-lipped they were. The science article from part 1 was right: hyperfeminine faces attract.

Even Grace, with her wide jaws, uses hairstyle to widen her temples and paint her lips fuller, all to minimize the lower face

Same thing with Brigitte Bardot. The pout and big eyes.

One more for the Hollywood 3.

Bardot had an uncanny ability to look good in heavy makeup. Like Hepburn's, Bardot's is a face one can paint over like a canvas. Bardot had an edge over Hepburn in that she could wear her hair in more styles than Hepburn and still looked good.

The incandescent Miss Judy Canova!

The holy trinity. Like R6 said, Brigitte had that edge over Audrey, who could look like a little boy sometimes. Liz, Marilyn and Brigitte always looked ultra feminine

Hourglass Liz.

HL 2

Marilyn was stunning

HL3: Liz at possibly her absolute thinnest. Too bad it was because of her unhappy marriage to Nicky Hilton.

Liz at her happiest, in a picture that should inspire a season of Feud.

With the man, and wearing those earrings he made famous.

Followed Todd to Hong Kong in 1957. Nowadays, her beautiful Chinese dress would have SJWs reeeing cultural appropriation.

Liz in another Chinese dress.

Liz in yet another Chinese dress.

I watched a video once and someone asked asians about cultural appropriation and they all laughed because they think it's silly and they find it flattering that people in the west wear clothes like the chinese dresses and kimono's etc. Do you think all actresses back then wore corsets to get that desirable frame? I know some did. I think this bitch went too far

r18 Can confirm. Asians do not mind westerners dressing their style. If the result looks good, they heap praises. If not, they laugh. Just that simple.

Grace Kelly in Chinese dress. The high neck made her jaws look a bit big, but that elongated figure made up for everything.

One more of Grace in same dress

^^ Beautiful. Grace would have looked good in a bin bag. Semi-Juggernaut jaw and all.

r18 Yeah, they all wear variations of shape wear back then, even with bathing suit. That pin-up girl had a wide face so when she clinch her waist in so much, she looked off balance.

R22 Yeah Betty had a strong jaw; bobble head. I like how Liz's waist looks in the 4th picture.

Even Liz knew I was more beautiful than she *ever* was. . .but that didn't stop us drinking together.

R23 That was Liz in The Girl who had Everything. She was supposed to be in the early stages of her first pregnancy there.

One more of Liz from 59's Suddenly last Summer, screaming from the clinch (I kid)

r24 Liz did defer to Ava on looks in many interviews, yes. She also knew to admire Audrey's elegant style despite her own self-admitted vulgarity.

Ava at her most beautiful in 1946's the Killer

Ava was a knockout. Liz was the type you brought home to momma, Ava was the type you just had fun with.

Elsa Martinelli --gorgeous face AND figure.

R29 Post the url to the picture in the Web Site Link bit

I bet La Liz watched Ava's ass like a damn hawk on set

Ever-present Liz at the set of Iguana.

Marilyn made everyone look like shit even Vivien leigh

Another from Iguana.

Gene Tierney

Bday girl on the set of Where Eagles Dare

r33 Only because Vivien was already 43 then and seemed to have work done. Younger Vivien was someone Marilyn had no hope of rivaling.

A candid.

I always loved Ann-Margret. She was like the cute Marilyn.

Elsa

They both looked so good in Giant. You can tell they had a mother-son type of bond.

Beauties

Dancing together off screen.

Jane Greer

Madeleine Carroll: Hitchcock’s original ice blonde

Elke Sommer

I wonder if this 1973 caftan of Liz's was up at the Auction.

Jacqueline Bissett

R42, that isn't Taylor.

The glamorous Burtons posing with the source of their eventual downfall: booze.

OMG the old queen is at it again. Continually posting pics of the librarian is not going to make people think she's beautiful. Plain as a doorknob!

Plain as a librarian, she was.

At my advanced age, I'm realizing that she had a very vapid face. But her AIDS activism was highly admirable.

Librarian looking bookworm-ish at the 1954 Oscars.

Librarian at probably her retirement party.

Liz's face looks shockingly like Timothee's at R12.

And R13, now that all the participants are dead, you know Ryan Murphy's on it!

Virna Lisi. She was stunning even into old age.

more Virna Lisi

It's the more basic faces with understated features that always age the best.

r55 I so want Murphy to abort Charles and Diana - most boring idea ever - and instead do Debbie and Liz for Feud 2. The real story is so melodramatic, it even got a Hollywood happy resolution ending, of sorts.

One more lesser seen Liz and Debbie pic

all the candidates for most glamours woman ever are dead and white?

Gong Li.

Amalia Fuentes

Amalia, glamour queen

R61 and your point is?

Who had the best brows?

There really ain't a thing as best/worst eyebrows. Rather, the issue is the best-suited brows to match the rest of the person's face. Marilyn's brows will destroy Audrey's striking bambi style and made her matronly. Audrey's brows will harden Marilyn's softness and turn herr into Anna Nicole. As it was each of them had brows best suited to their faces. Hail old Hollywood stylists.

Lena Horne

Dorothy Dandridge

That's Halle Berry R69

R61, the original thread, linked at R1, was about Elizabeth Taylor's beauty. People responded to the OP by posting pictures of other actresses from Hollywood's golden age.

[quote][bold]If u are still not convinced that Elizabeth Taylor is the most gorgeous woman ever, then see this[/bold] Her beauty is unparalleled

Instead of complaining, why don't you add another name to the conversation.

One more pic of young Liz in green.

Early 60s Liz

Liz with Rock and Elvis, 1956

Barbra.

R75 Barbra, really ? She is one of the ugliest ever.

Will Bette Midler be next?

I think Elvis' dark beauty mirrored Liz's even better than Monty Cliff's.

Monty with Liz on Giant's set

Another Liz and Cliff mid 50s candid

Liz and Monty Suddenly Last Summer candid

Liz alone. Suddenly Last Summer Candid.

One more

With son Michael Jr

Hedy Lamarr wondering if Jimmy Stewart will marry her in “Come Live With Me” from 1941 about the same time she was working on her invention of frequency hopping with George Antheil.

Hedy Lamarr had a great scientific mind. If only she'd tackle people networking with the same genius, her golden years will be much much improved.

Burtons with Monty Clift in the late 1960s.

R85 is this an Elizabeth Taylor only thread?

r87 Any beauty can be mentioned here. But whether there would be comments following depends on the other posters' interests.

Phyllis George.

1957 full-glammed Liz looking SNL worthy as she posed with, of all things, a baby duck.

Miss Rita Hayworth

Liz and Duck: the prelude to Liz and Dick, no doubt.

Young Liz's image used on China cyber money.

Lesley Anne Down

Candice Bergen

Young Catherine Zeta Jones, who is IMO the only contemporary actress who can match old Hollywood glamour.

Pamela Austin-the Dodge Rebellion girl

Young Nicole Kidman

Gloria Stuart years before playing Rose in Titanic

Tuesday Weld

r95 Candice is really gorgeous

Grace Kelly

Young Joan Collins

r103 Please no pornstars here

R103 That should eliminate Donald “John” Trump from posting.

Brooke Shields 1990.

Beautiful Sophia Loren in the mid 50s, back before 60s style turned her into a Disney witch.

Another vote for Miss Judy Canova.....

Pre-Hollywood Audrey Hepburn.

Hollywood Hepburn.

Another one

Ann Blyth, who played the ungrateful daughter in Mildred Pierce, had a unique look.

Ava remembered on People Mag. They did mention her beauty leaving even Liz in awe.

Cecil Beaton's 1953 photoshoot with new mum Liz. Could that be why he came to forever associate her with a baby nursing mama?

Rita, Ava, and Marilyn are my favorites.

And I loved Christina Aguilera during her Back to Basic days. Not Old Hollywood, but pretty damn close. I wish she would have kept this look:

I think the most glamorous woman of our modern times has got to be Dita Von Teese. Maybe she's not classically beautiful, but she has got STYLE which is something that is seriously lacking these days.

r117 Puke r114 Mesmerizing . She is like a sculpture.

I'm sure the person who posted Streisand was joking but I've never thought she was ugly per se. Her nose kept her from being beautiful but if you gave her a nose job she'd practically be Jennifer Lawrence.

By 1969, Taylor was told by Burton to be too fat and old to play Anne of a Thousand Days. So, she settled for a cameo playing a courtesan. The pearl she wore was that real uber expensive historical treason featured at the Auction.

Late 1960s Liz trying a blond wig.

Liz relaxing in 1956.

Liz early 60s, Cleopatra period.

1960s tanned Liz.

One more Burtons.

Catherine Deneuve

After 1960, Taylor let herself go, she was just plain lazy and became a symbol of ostentatiousness.

In the 60s, Deneuve was much more beautiful than Taylor.

Fat Liz

fatter Liz.

If Catherine Deneuve really was "more beautiful" than Taylor in the 60s, that's only because she is 11 years younger than Taylor's stated age. Suppose MGM really did fiddle with Taylor's age like Margaret O'Brien and Esther William said, then there is at least 13 years between them.

r129 also seem to be comparing 60s Catherine Deneuve to 1980 obese Taylor, thus giving a 30+ year age gap between them in the featured photos.

And Old Deneuve ain't no Jane Fonda/Lauren Bacall either. She also got fat.

No one truly age well, not even masculine Deneuve, who certainly had more work done than old Taylor.

Old Taylor, before crumbled by brain tumor and failed backbone.

One more from 1992

Dame Edith Massey

Right . . .

Taylor at 56.

Liz and Maria Burton at 1973.

Liz with Eddie 1960

1960 Liz Eddie with Judy Garland

1950s Liz and Monty with Judy.

Liz having another date with Judy.

One more 1960s Liz

Monica Bellucci at the age of 50. She really has aged well.

It's a toss up between Bellucci and Zeta Jones when it comes to aging well today.

Liz modeled for Fontana sisters right after giving birth in 1953.

R138 Judy looks awful there, god bless her. R141 Beautiful! That photo is new to me. R142 Monica is a goddess. Catherine is still looking good but shes looking a bit Victoria Beckham-y these days

Colored from same 1953 Fontana Sisters modeling gig.

r145 welcome for the rare Liz 60s pic. Here is one in the mid 60s with daughter Liza Todd at the beach. Liz had her ups and downs in the 60s/70s, but when she's up, she's up.

One more

Cleo behind the scenes.

One more

Sorry, meant to post this one

"Vulgar-hair" 70s Liz Moment, but son Christopher Wilding was a hot young hippie.

Mid 70s Liz with Michael Wilding Jr.

R147 Thank you for the more rares! She looks like a teenager in that photo. R152 I saw in a Liz and Richard interview that when they stayed in a hotel once, the staff wouldn't allow Michael inside because they thought he was just a random dirty hippie - figuring the hotel was upscale, so Liz had to come down herself to let him in. I forget what else she said so idk if they stuck around or not. He was like his mothers twin how could they not know he is her child

What do u guys say about young Uma Thurman ? I haven't seen a more symmetric face than her's. Perfect

Uma #2

Uma #3

r154 Welcome! Liz's 1960s 70s styles did her striking features no favor, and at the beach with less makeup and hairstyling you can see her looking more her 1950s self. PS Respected by hotel staff or not, Liz's 2 sons sure were hot when they were young hippies!

Young Uma's face shape and figure were top notch. That determined nose, however, detracts from her otherwise ethereal beauty.

R158 I honestly loved her 60s look, but I think the more she tanned, the more it took away from her. Michael was hot, I agree. Someone on here said he they Michael. I've read a few times on here about him being gay - or at least explored. He gives me vibes. R155 Uma was gorgeous. I LOVED her look in Henry and June.

1973 Liz in 70s style

1960-61 Liz with Eddie

One more

one more

60, with Eddie + her sons

Another

1960 Liz Eddie Natalie Robert

more

more

Around Cleo period.

1961 Oscar win in color. Articoke hair is awful, but dress seems nice.

Another around that time. Alcohol bloat showing but face still holds.

facing press

with Eddie + sons again

Looking very 60s winning David di Donatello Award

Same event

Hedy in this Merv Griffin interview still looking good before she really completely went off the rails with cosmetic surgery.

Could you queens please stop the Taylor threads? That fat sow is so overrated and her' glamour' is not aging well+ she was incredibly tacky and vulgar, and a disgrace in old age. Enough please. Enough

r177 Thank you for the link! Yeah, even with blow lifts, she remained lovely. Had Hedy stopped right there, and did only skin-care for the rest of her life, she might still have been saved from disfigurement.

Am scared for Ashely Judd and Nicole Kidman's futures, since both appeared to have done more work than even Hedy here.

r178 Then contribute your idea of glamor. This thread ain't Taylor only, you know.

R178

R180. I think Bacall had great style in the forties, Kelly was perfect when she was in hollywood, as was A.Hepburn in the 60's. Leigh ( Vivien) was oozing high class and elegance always . Everything Farrow wore in her 60's films is amazing. Of all these ladies, I think the most 'glamouros' is Leigh, but 'glamour ' immediately evoques tarty make up, horrible plucked brows, poodle hairdo and saloons sequins dresses most of the time

Glamour always changed with each decade, but only a few stand the test of time. Elizabeth, to me, is one. So is Marilyn - and Audrey. Ever since Elizabeth's death, I've often wondered if she would get to the Audrey and Marilyn status where her image is on everything. What makes an icon? A lot of people say, and I agree, that if Marilyn didn't die when she did and if she were still living, her status would be different and she wouldn't be so iconic. If Liz died young, do you think she would be an icon of Marilyn's status right now?

No. Marilyn is an icon because her image is entirely fake and yet very beautiful. It's an subconscious effect. You can project yourself in that image, because the real human being, norma jean baker whatever, is completely erased. It took several hours for her to morph into Marylin Monroe. It took some very specific kind of mental illness and make up artistry to do that.

Gong Li might not have been the most glamorous woman ever, R62, but she certainly has aged remarkably well. Here's a recent pic of her when she's almost 50.

I don't know if Gong Li has had any work done, but if she has then her plastic surgeon does amazing work.

Asians are not attractive

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Kathe Burkhart trying to pimp her sexual Liz Taylor art. Signs of Liz being iconic?

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R189 I like that you pointed Marilyn and Feminism out because I've read this over the years and it's bothered me. They use Marilyn's "tragic life" as a push too, like she was made of glass and was the ultimate victim of men and Hollywood. I've been a Marilyn fan since a child and she was no fool and she could play people if she wanted to. She was a person, she had a dark side as well as light and proved she was not the victim she is now depicted of being, people seem to forget that. And the whole fat thing: they always use images of her when she was pregnant. She was pregnant during Some Like It Hot. Pushing the whole Size 16 bs use to tire me.

r192 Like you, I like Marilyn - a determined self-promoter who became the biggest bombshell celeb of Hollywood. But she wasn't a victim of men. Rather, she used men to advance herself in the star-making machinery. Every men she had been with advanced her social status. Every time she bared her body, it caused a media sensation. You could say she slutted and slept her way up, but she did so in an effective manner to gain fame. And what she offered to audiences was her modelling chops, which gave her characters a unique screen presence. She did not get Oscar nominated because she had problems with remembering and delivering dialogues. She was not highly paid because she was unprofessional even by bombshell-actress standards. Her being hooked on prescription drugs and booze were also the norm for most of Hollywood at the time, yet others battled this differently than she did. She earned her fame and her notoriety by her own actions. There was no conspiracy there, nor any more oppression than that which all classic actors and actresses had faced. The fat activist people who real woman-ed Marilyn also choose to ignore her weight loss around the time of her death spinning their wacked narrative. So stupid.

, up to when she got crumbled by her own deteriorating physical and mental states in her 30s.

Young Monroe working out

Monroe Arthur period candid.

Monroe 60s style

One more with sunglasses

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Audrey marrying Mel 1955.

Liz and Mike at wedding reception

Grace Kelly royal luxury wedding.

Monroe wedding to Arthur

There is nothing classy about Monroe. Yuck.

The very beautiful, very British, and somewhat short-lived Kay Kendall. Poor thing died from leukemia just as her career in the US was picking up speed. Tall, sophisticated and surprisingly funny, like a 50s version of Carole Lombard.

There were some less-know foreign starlets in Old Hollywood who were very striking indeed.

Rosemary Harris was almost a match for Taylor in Beau Brummell

In R41's link (which I copied here for convenience), to my eyes, Hedy Lamarr is the most beautiful (maybe something about her face's symmetry?). I found the picture next to hers a little disconcerting though: Although obviously a genuine photo of the also lovely Joan Bennett, it looks oddly like it's one of those trick pictures combining two people - the young Lucille Ball and Hedy Lamarr herself.

Clearly, the brunettes were the most stunning. Some blondes could be, but sometimes looked washed out.

Anita Ekberg was a most beautiful blonde in her youth, before surgeries and age became her downfall.

Olivia Hussey was what I'd call the Brooke Shields before Brook Shields. Beautiful teenager boasting striking features, but a hard-faced woman as an adult.

Grown up Hussey.

Liz's hot brother Howard outshining even Monty with those Taylor dark brows and lashes.

Midlife Howard bear with higher-weight Liz.

Liz's grandsons.

Quin Tivey, the son of Liza Todd has his grandmother's violet eyes.

Howard sends jaxton wheeler's vibes. Was he gay, officially ?

R206 that was the conclusion of Aileen Ford who founded the Ford Modeling Agency. She said Hedy had the most beautiful face she had ever seen.

r214 Quin's heavy lashes confirm what Burton and others had been saying about young Liz: that she really didn't need eyeliner though she enjoyed wearing them. BTW, one of Liz's grandsons dated Debbie's granddaughter Billie back in the 00s. I wonder if Quin was the one?

One more Liz, 50s

One more.

Another Liz and Debbie, on the set of 1953's the Girl who had Everything.

Young Liz and Roddy with child Natalie Wood.

Another young Liz with child Natalie.

The one who dated Billie Lourd is Rhys Tivey, another grandson, who is a musician. Looks like he got the Mexican genes.

Cecil Beaton's Photography: Liz

Comment in Diary: Fat fingers. Nursing Boobs.

Cecil Beaton's Photography: Grace

Comment in Diary: Calf face. Man jaws.

Cecil Beaton's Photography: Audrey

Comment in Diary: Some star potential.

Cecil Beaton's Photography: Marilyn

Comment in Diary: Overexcited. Will end in tears.

One more Cecil B P, with the Liz he bashed.

Cecil B P: Vivien

CBP: Marlene

CBP: Katharine aka the OTHER Hepburn

Cecil BEATON :: Actress Tallulah Bankhead

50s celebrity brows take two.

Liz 50s style versus 60s style

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Liz-inspired Celeb: Dita Von Teese

Designer Barbara Tfank plans an Elizabeth Taylor moment at Fashion Houston

Sherilyn Fenn as Elizabeth Taylor

r238 Oh I remember this from the 90s. Too bad the miniseries had such a boring story.

Kristen Steward channels Liz

And like Liz, Miss Fenn has gotten plump in her middle age.

r241 I'll take that as a Liz tribute.

Kim Kardashian claiming to be channeling Giant liz (right . . .)

DebraMessing-Taylor-inspired-look

Model Lara Stone for Carine Roitfelds Elizabeth Taylor editorial

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And who can forget professional courtesan Lindsay Lohan's revelatory performance as Elizabeth Taylor?

r247 Oh nos . . .

And you just know the following image is gonna happen

JLo as Maggie the Cat

Dayle Haddon wears Nars’ Butterfield 8 Lip Lacquer in a shot inspired by Elizabeth Taylor’s role in the movie of the same name.

Elizabeth Olsen as Liz

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Sharon Stone is as beautiful, and has aged as beautifully as any of these broads

If only Sharon was in more good movies in her prime, she just might be as iconic too. Instead she only seem to have Basic Instinct, which she did as an older age beauty wise.

Liz's ghost reacting to Kim and LLo impersonations.

gorgeous

Most of Liz's pixie styles are very well-texturized and can totally wow in even balls even today.

A candid around the Cat on Hot Tin Roof Period. That short do is also better texturized here than in the movie, where they teased and sprayed too much.

Monica Bellucci

Like Liz, Monica also played Cleopatra.

One more Liz late 50s candid, in color

Early 60s Liz candid. Color.

Liz in what must be the priciest updo money could buy in the mid 60s.

Updo in candid

Monica Bellucci as Cleopatra

Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra. Exquisite.

Vivien as teenage Cleo is pretty and exquisite. Liz as the mature Cleo radiates this earthy exotic glamor and strength.

Vivien wins the Cleopatra....r262 shows the beginning of a double chin....

r262 Liz's alcoholism spins out of control around the time she met Burton so yes, it probably was a double.

Another look from Cleo Liz.

Vivien Cleo.

Another from same scene

Another hairstyle

Another look

Wasn't there talk about the Feud writers doing a Vivien Leigh big screen Biopic? Has it fallen through? I haven't heard anything about it since they announced it last year.

I was an exquisite Cleo.

Claudette was so classy looking!

The multiple faces of Cleo on film

Jolie for the win, r276

Jolie never played Cleopatra. She played Alexander the Great's mother. Colin Ferrel played her Alexander which was a kinda dumb since they're almost the same age.

Monica Belluci for the win.

I was the first Cleopatra!

Oh my!...

First Cleo is actually most risque :o

Different strokes for different folks, but the most universally iconic Cleo remains to be this:

One more Liz Cleo look

Most icon-worthy Cleo is this:

In a way, the Cleo role seems to carry a (Egyptian?) curse of sorts. Leigh had a miscarriage filming a running scene that triggered the dramatic decline in her sanity. Taylor met Burton and her post-Todd alcoholism went from bad to plain out of control. Sure both became even bigger stars afterwards, but the damage each took was substantial.

Sohia Loren played Cleopatra in some Italian film.

Gene Tierny played Cleopatra.

So Loren actually starred as Cleo in an Italian film. I've read somewhere how back then, Loren, Hepburn and Monroe were all competing for the 60s Hollywood Cleo role once the budget climbed to blockbuster level. There was even a vid on Youtube where reporters were asking Monroe if she was really gonna be in Cleo.

Sophia Loren as Cleopatra.

Vivien's body is a knockout here compared to top=heavy Liz.

Not exactly Cleopatra but Angelina Jolie in Alexander was stunning. She was in talks to portray Cleopatra at the time but it fell through.

I love how Hollywood dresses the actresses in the Roman/Greco era movies.

Claudette Colbert's wardrobe in Cecile deMille's 1934 Cleopatra was the star of the film.

I wonder how it looked in color.

Another Cleopatra look.

r290 "Top heavy? I topple empires. Richard will tell you, just ask him!"

Toppling empires here.

Another Liz Cleo

Miss Cillian Murphy, of course. No one else even comes close.

r290 posted a rather top=heavy image of Vivien.

Liz Cleo behind the scenes

Least we forget: LLo Cleo

LiLo Cleo toppling something, but not empires.

Gene Tierney

Was Liz Cleo like the only one wearing something that approximate the actual Pharaoh eye and brow makeup?

I'm so sick of all these Liz pics. Will the poster give it a rest? She let all the adulation go to her head and became a pill-popper and lush.

Gene Tierney, one of her first pics.

Catherine Deneuve

I'm surprised this style icon hasn't shown up in these 2 threads like at all . . .

r305

Liz candid 1957

One more from same year.

Hedy Lamarr

Did Hedy ever photo-ed together with Vivien? She was basically Vivien's round-faced twin.

Hedy candid

Hedy and Joan?

For people who like round faced beauties, there's also the original ditzy blonde who got dethroned by Marilyn Monroe: "Million Dollar Legs" Betty Grable.

Gene Tierney

R313 asked and received

Tierny has Katherine Hepburn's lower face, somehow.

Tanned Liz candid early 60s.

Lana Turner

R313, here you go...

I always found Rachel Weisz to be one of the most beautiful actresses around.

Vivien or Hedy?

more Rachel

She was beautiful in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

They were both beautiful

I always loved this picture

I would act like this too if if Paul Newman was standing right in front of me.

Divine

Interesting trivia: Liz was record thin in much of Cat because she was mourning Todd to the point of losing appetite. Anyway, Buri Ives worried for her well-being and devised a plan to get her eating again: by having real gourmet catering in that homecoming dinner party scene. It worked, and Liz started eating for real in that scene. The rest, as they say, is history.

So . . . yeah. Thanks, Big Daddy. For real.

Liz and Eddie. 1960-ish.

I've never seen Cleopatra, Google makes it look like there were a million different costumes.

Another Cleopatra still

black & white Cleopatra

Raintree County

This one looks like a mass card

Marilyn

Rachel Weisz has “it”....

The most glamorous blonde and brunette together - Anita Ekgerg and Liz, 1956.

One more Anita and Liz

The eternally gorgeous Miss Susan Cabot......

Hedy Lamar

Gene Tierny

that should be Tierney

Hedy with Lana and Judy

Were Hedy and Gene ever in the same photo? These 2 should be from the same 1930s era.

I think Hedy looks like a brunette Jean Harlow, round even features and all.

50 feet of Va-Va-Voom......

R347 Not that I am aware of but they had the same husband, first Hedy then Gene became Mrs. Howard Lee. He was one lucky Texas oilman..

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner had the same husband, Artie Shaw. First he married Turner which lasted 1 year and years later, Gardner. He had 8 marriages just like Liz. They didn't have affairs then, they had marriages.

The way these men marry all those top screen beauties are just legendary!

Vic Damone just died today. He married Pier Angeli who supposedly broke James Dean heart by leaving him for Damone. Pier Angeli was the It Girl like Liz back in the 50s.

Damone also married Diahnn Carroll. He was married 5 times.

Liz

Vivien Leigh

Liz again

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Vivien Leigh

Rita Hayworth

Gene Tierney

Vivien

Hedy Lamarr

Vivien

Gene Tierney

Vivien Leigh

Hedy Lamarr

A young Ava Gardner

Liz, 1957

Vivien

Young Lana

Lana and John Garfield

Gene Tierney

He might be fucked up and domestic violence prone, but young Nicky Conrad Hilton truly was the most handsome rich heir ever known to old Hollywood actresses. No wonder young Liz fell for that spectacular book cover.

The young glamorous couple.

Joan Collins in the 50s, England's look-alike copy of Liz Taylor

Diana Dors - England's answer to Marilyn Monroe/Jayne Mansfield

Someone posted a pic of a very young Lauren Bacall in another thread a while back. A candid shot, sans makeup, it was very beautiful and very elegant...

I like the more candid shots, it captures their natural beauty.

This one is of Marilyn, taken on the set of her last movie, The Misfits

Here's another one of them, R375

They were a beautiful-looking couple but when she left him for Warren, he was slightly prettier.

Young Bacall

Bacall with Rock Hudson

Rock & Liz

More Rock & Liz on set

More Liz and Rock on set

Liz & James Dean on set

Liz & Monty

Liz & Monty

One more Liz & Monty

Norma Jean, ingenue, pre-Marilyn

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Warren was especially dangerous to Natalie. Maybe RJ was too tame for her?

Joan Collin's turn with Nicky.

A collage of the many husbands of Liz Taylor.

I think these two were one of the best-looking couples.

What was likely the last meeting between Liz and Nicky: finalizing their divorce in 1953. Both looked quite nervous and awkward in this picture. Poor Liz's hair and makeup were stiff as hell, and her hands were clasped tightly. Nicky, who got off without having to pay a cent (Liz refused alimony in her quest for a timely divorce) actually appeared contrite.

Vivien & Larry

All these glamorous doomed couples . . .

Natalie

These old Hollywood beauties sure have great on-camera chemistry with gays.

Rock would prefer snuggling with James Dean and vice versa.

Natalie with Robert Redford

Sophia Loren and Elvis getting cozy in some PR thing. I never knew they met.

Vivien Leigh in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. She had an affair with Warren then

Jessica Lange in the 70s.

Hedy Lamarr in color.

Elvis could practically have been Liz's long lost brother.

Anita Ekberg

That's colorized though, R407. So is Marilyn at R391.

1946 , The Strange Woman

Samson and Delilah, 1949

a candid shot of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean.

Marilyn, at home.

R412, um, sure...

[quote]a candid shot of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. —He doesn't look very interested.

R412, He doesn't look like he's interested because the picture is fake, it's two pictures photoshopped together

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Dean was definitely interested.

Marilyn and Brando.

Liz and Bowie.

Liz and Roddy McDowell in conversation with a young Natalie Wood.

That's not real either, R417.

This beauty, Brenda Marshall, got home-wrecked by Audrey Hepburn when hubby William Holden filmed Sabrina. Hepburn went as far as to going to their family dinner to confront Marshall trying to force her to divorce Holden. The adulterous "gamine" was unstoppable until that Holden had undergone a vasectomy some years earlier and could not give her children. Then she ditched the barren tool. Still, the Holden Marshall marriage was never the same afterwards, and they eventually divorced.

Lesser seen 60s Liz pic

Anais Mali as Elizabeth Taylor

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Young liz on honeymoon

Honeymoon with Nicky Hilton

Honeymoon

Honeymoon Hilton

Honeymoon Hilton

Lesser known Liz romance: before Michael Wilding, there was Jewish musical director Stanley Donen. The relationship ended as stage mom Sara went all out to break them up.

Liz and Stanley

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Ballerina Liz in Donen's Love is Better than Ever.

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Romy Schneider, "Les choses de la vie"

Lady Poitier aka Joanna Shimkus

Anita Ekberg in bikini

So, any more non-Liz beauties worth mentioning?

How about Jacqueline Bisset

How is it that Liv Tyler has never been mentioned here?

Italian bombshell, Claudia Cardinale

another Italian bombshell, Virna Lisi

The pic of Lauren Bacall I was referring to up thread was of her in 1946. She is seated at a modest kitchen table in a sweater with her hair up and lighting a cigarette, and she is perfection......

Bacall wearing updo in movie 1947.

Another Bacall updo 1946 the Big Sleep

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How do you post a pic? Do you have to be a paying member?

r450 Any nonmember can post a pic. Just input image url under Web Site Link.

Liz from 1954.

Liz, looking at a drawing that made her look like Vivien instead.

Wearing sleek bun in Giant.

Liz's absolute prime, lasting from her teens to her thirties.

Liz modelling. Hollywood Community Chest Fashion Show.

Same show

Same event, with Ann Miller.

Liz modelling for Fontana Sisters

1959 Liz modelling

Any pics of 80s Liz standing in front of a microwave oven yelling “HURRY”!!!?

r461 You mean this 80s Liz?

Only that she ain't in front of a microwave. Rather, she was at an AIDS conference urging people to hurry up and do something about the epidemic.

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Emma Stone and JLaw. The kind of "beautiful women" Hollywood gives us today.

Miley Cyrus, most beautiful woman in the universe according to Maxim

SI supermodel of our time.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, beautiful actress and very under-appreciated. She's more talented than Jlaw but doesn't get her roles for obvious reasons.

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This youtube shows why Hedy Lamarr was considered by many as the most beautiful of all the stars in Hollywood. Lana Turner said in 1982 on the Tonight show when asked who was the most beautiful women she ever saw, “Truly the most beautiful was Hedy Lamarr. She was absolutely breathtaking. She couldn’t act but she was breathtaking”.

Lana had to stick the knife in as by that time Hedy was considered to be a has been and joke who hadn’t made a movie in 25 years but Lana still clearly remembered how overwhelmingly beautiful she had been. It was sad how Hedy’s life turned out at the end a broke recluse although in her last few years she did start to receive belated recognition for her inventions.

With successful female stars, it's not just about how beautiful she is - it is whether her kind of beautiful could suggest a personality that may interest the audience.

Was Katherine Hepburn beautiful? Not remotely, but her appearance was one of sleek lanky sharpness. That kind of appearance suggest androgyny and sharp wit, which helped her land those interesting roles from youth unto her golden years.

Hedy was pretty but her prettiness lied in her having even features and a willowy figure. Sure she had dark hair, but her eyes and brows, even with heavy makeup, were not striking enough to match that coloring. And she had a round, bottom heavy face even at her lower weight, which gave her a matronly feel (what some DLers call maternal). Compared to Vivien with her delicate face bones that suggested haughty class, or even Joan Crawford with those harsh angles that suggested harsh strength, there is little in Hedy's appearance that suggest an interesting personality. She was like a pretty but domesticated housewife even since those early 30s film, with nothing of the fresh unmarried girl about her presence. Hedy's brand of even-featured prettiness gave her a lukewarm presence, which put her at a clear disadvantage as an actress. That was why she ended up getting so few memorable roles despite some industry insiders calling her beautiful.

[quote] With successful female stars, it's not just about how beautiful she is - it is whether her kind of beautiful could suggest a personality that may interest the audience.

Exactly. Hedy may have been the perfect physical specimen but she gave off a cold, aloof vibe and hardly interesting. Even though I think Liz Taylor was a drug-addicted lush and I don't like her much, there was a spark inside her, she acted like a truck-driver inside a woman's body.

That's why all the talk of physical perfection is moot. Beauty is much more. After a couple of minutes staring at physical perfection, you can't help but be bored if there's nothing there.

R471 Hedy was probably to intelligent and quiet of a personality to have been a great actress but if you are talking about pure beauty she definitely had it as her contemporaries always were blown away by her looks. Doris Day is supposed to have said, “I believe I would sell my sole if I could look like Hedy Lamarr”.

Hedy had the most interesting combination of physical traits as she had an alabaster white complexion, coal black hair and grey/green eyes and was rather tall at 5’ 7” by the standards of the day when most actresses were just slightly over 5 ft in height. Geez Judy Garland was only 4’11”.

Hedy had the goth or vamp look naturally as some jewish people have about them. An interesting train of thought is that the legends about Vampires may in fact be about Jews, which when you think about it would not be to surprising of a conclusion.

r471 Totally agreed. Most physically perfect does not always translate to being the most attractive when you're in movies.

On top of lacking screen personality, Hedy also did not have the costume/hair-design to suggest any such personality. There is nothing in her hair, makeup and clothes that suggests a striking screen persona.

Take the big 3 of the 1950s. Marilyn, Audrey and Liz all wear variations of the short pixie hairstyle, yet there are clear differences between them. Marilyn's style is baby-ish unruly, Audrey's dancer-sleek while Liz's is ballroom formal - and their styles almost neve4 overlap. That is because they were playing the sexpot ditz, the playful gamine and the society shrew respectively and exclusively. There studio images are all distinctive and not to be confused with each others'.

Not so with Hedy's generic styling, which comes off as a pale imitation of Vivien's gaudy aristocratic style. So, is screen-Hedy passionate? Aloof? Innocent? Crafty? Classy? Tawdy? It's hard to get a clue. This also keeps Hedy from becoming an enduring icon despite her real life beauty.

Hedy was beautiful, but whoever did her eyebrows in a number of those pics at r469 should be flogged....

Hedy may have a beautiful figure, but her face was not very photogenic - especially when she have natural expressions that made apparent her busy face muscles. This is apparent in candids, where at times she resembled Julia Louis Dreyfus.

Julia Louis Dreyfus, aka Elaine from Seinfield

Almost anyone can take a good or bad candid pic

Another Hedy candid

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For those who like taller beauties, there was also Zsa Zsa Gabor. She looked so much like Jessica Lane, Ryan Murphy should do a bio show on her.

Leggy Ava and her doll.

Forever iconic trio

R475 you are wrong about Hedy not being photogenic that’s just silly to.say. Some of her pictures are just amazing. If you have never seen Ziegfeld Girl watch it sometime and tell me that she did not photograph well and was not incredibly beautiful. I agree Hedy was a below average actress but she was extrodinary looking person. Here she is in another photograph from Tortillo Flat.

r483 Hedy's publicity stills where she had resting faces are nice yes. She is plainer when photographed with expressions, especially when smiling or such.

Ziegfeld Girl. Hedy looks a bit like Vivien, but with masculine forehead, droopy outer eyes and brows, and with fuller cheeks balanced by lip-pencil thickened thin lips. Lana is basic but seems to photograph better than Hedy here because smaller lower face and natural full lips.

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R483 You just seem indoctrinated in Hollywood publicity in your analysis of women’s looks. Marilyn was not a great, great beauty-she was manufactured with dyed blonde hair and a nose job and of that type I prefer Jayne Mansfield. ( love Audrey but it’s her personality which makes her seem beautiful and Liz is so much a creation of the studio publicity department, although she was a terrific looking teenager. Hedy, Ava, and Gene Tierney are probably the three most stunning women in Hollywood history. Here’s a link to “masculine forehead” Lamarr so you can see her in action.

BTW if you want to see Hedy Lamarr in color video here is a link to what she looked like in “Boom Town” at the age of 26, then Samson and Delilah when she was 35 and the last video is Hedy at the age of 44 playing Joan of Arc which of course was ridiculous as were all of the casting decisions in “The Story of Mankind” a truly awful film.

r486 I agree with Ava being more beautiful than MM, Audrey & Liz. But Gene with bad lighting/makeup looks like Katherine Hepburn with softer features, and KH don't float my boat, sorry.

Hedy is pretty but in that matronly silent film actress way. Even after she slimmed down in the 1940s, that face was rounded at the edges, and bottom heavy. The outer corners of her brows/eyes/lips are all pulled downwards as seem characteristic of the 20s-30s era starlets - again, not a look I find attractive

Hedy may have pale skin and dark hair, but with weak brows and lashes her eye area just looks washed out, green irises not withstanding. Her best physical asset is her leggy figure, but compared to Ava Gardner - who has a striking face to go with the perfect body - she has less impact.

In short, while pretty, I don't see how Hedy is prettier than Jean Harlow Joan Bennett etc. Definitely not "outstanding" beautiful like Ava or Vivien.

Attached image of Joan Bennett 1940, who looks almost identical to Hedy under that generic styling.

As for those who say Liz was only beautiful as a teenager. Well, she was constantly child-bearing between 1953-1957, so her weight and bloat level fluctuated during her 20s. I've yet to see anyone more beautiful than her at stated age 27 - mother of 3 - in Suddenly Last Summer.

candid of same scene

Totally elegant...

R127, look at R125. Taylor was exquisite. Not denying Deneuve wasn't beautiful for decades.

Burtons 1966. Even in her fat vulgar Virgina Woolf period, Liz can be stunning when she made the effort.

Another Liz Suddenly last Summer

1957 Liz and Mike

Marilyn candid

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R488 You have your opinion of Hedy and I have mine. I used to think Gene Tierney was the most beautiful actress until I saw Hedy’s movies recently while she still was in her 20’s. I did not care that much for her in Samson and Delilah but she was 35 by then and had, had a couple of kids. I like Ava very much as a person and think she is fabulous but still think she is not quite as beautiful in the face as Hedy but she probably had a better body. I never really thought Vivian was that beautiful although she is very attractive and was a great actress. Beauty clearly is subjective and not everyone sees things the same way including you and I. Hedy, Gene and Ave always reminded me of finalist for a Ms. Universe contest.

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Monroe in hat

Vivien publicity still 1940. Very well-proportioned for a short lady.

1960 Liz Eddie candid

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Audrey with pet deer

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Rare pregnant Audrey Candid 1960

While not what I call glamorous, Janet Leigh had a very refreshing girlishness about her as a young adult.

Sharon Stone is a great beauty especially around the time of Total Recall and Basic Instinct. Her looks weren't feminine like Liz Taylor or Audrey but more a blonde Ava Gardner-type, assertive, strong and sexually charged.

Loretta Young

Jennifer Connelly.

She was gorgeous in her 20s, she had the same coloring thing going as Liz.

Jennifer before skinny

Liz with similar hair

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Young liz with Janet Leigh

Jean Simmons made that woman look like a fat cow

When it comes to glamour I always put Gene Tierney first. Her only problem was she was only gorgeous when doing high glamour shots. If it wasn't high end she wasn't going to looks so great. She wasn't one who could just throw on jeans and a tee shirt. Put her in designer clothes and she couldn't be beat.

Liz in her 20s really did have the perfect hourglass figure.

Liz modelling jewelry

One more bathing suit Liz

Liz always looked like she was one donut away from a Weight Watchers meeting.

I keep seeing people calling young Liz fat, and then I see the current batch of Hollywood beauties like JLaw kate Upton and whatnot and and they all got all much broader waists than her by proportions.

Can a woman who can fit into 18-inch waist dresses be called fat just because she got boobs and hips?

Another 1960s shot of the Burtons

Mother of 3 and still spotting a wasp waist at 26, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Another from Cat

Still rocking that waist at 27 in Suddenly Last Summer.

Suddenly Last Summer, where we see "Cousin Sebastine" in profile.

Another waist-flaunting dress from Suddenly Last Summer

Cousin Sebastian's face revealed!

She was blandly pretty, and she got fat by 1961 unlike Marilyn she wasn’t beautiful past 32

r534 Please. Marilyn was such a fat frau at 33 in Some like it Hot - which only worked because of Jack Lemon and the script - that all her subsequent movies flopped at the box office.

Taylor around that age remained eye-catchingly beautiful, especially in candids.

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