Julie Christie, Ursula Andress, and Catherine Deneuve 1966

OP are any of these cunts still alive gramps?

When did we peak?

I think 1994. It all started going downhill with the internet in 1995 and technology replacing culture.

Born Free. That was culture! 🥺

Not pictured with this lovely trio is beautiful Raquel Welch.

Back when fashion looked fashionable.

Ursula meets the Queen.

Next to Woody Allen!!

And all are still alive. I don't think any of them shared the same dude at any time.

a spot of gravy on Ursula's mink cuff?

They all got the white glove memo

Ursula was the creme de la creme.

All classic beauties. Raquel should have known better and covered the girls for her meet and greet with the Queen.

Back in the day, the press dubbed Miss Andress as "Ursula Undress" because she was frequently [italic]underdressed[/italic] in films.

Did Ursula come straight from the set? She’s wearing the same dress in the film scene as when meeting the Queen. Also, that’s actually Peter Sellers pretending to look like Woody Allen (again, he’s wearing the same tux in the scene and with the Queen).

She bore a child for a guy who ended up with Lisa Rinna. Oh how the mighty fall…

Or IS it Woody Allen? They were all in Casino Royale together🤷🏻‍♂️

Ursula was a John Derek discovery, so it's a miracle she had any honor for acting.

She was in several films and under contract before she met/married Derek.

R15 And she went out with Harry Hamlin - what was she thinking?

Then again, he then married Rinna...

“And she went out with Harry Hamlin”

Are you quite sure?

Dimitri Hamlin, their son.

Confirmed: it’s Woody Allen with the Queen and Lisa Rinna’s stepson’s mother. Who’d a thunk it?

R22, please refrain from referring to Ursula Andress as "Lisa Rinna’s stepson’s mother." Were you born in a barn?

No, but I think I have a good sense of humor.

Catherine Deneuve helped me seduce a bisexual guy, many years ago.

This was six months before I was born and I'm 58 now and they're all still alive. They must all be old hags by now.

Ursula Andress is 89, Julie Christie is 85 and Catherine Deneuve is only 81.

As opposed to r26 who remains daisy fresh at a youthful 58.

[quote]As opposed to [R26] who remains daisy fresh at a youthful 58.

And looks 24, of course.

Ursula Andress IS Honeychile Rider!

Well, as long as you and your mom think so that's all that matters, R24.

According to Ursula Andress' wiki bio, she and John Derek separated because of her affair with her "Once Before I Die" co-star Ron Ely. The film also starred and was directed by John Derek! That must've been quite a rocky shoot! Their divorce was finalized before the film's release.

Andress and Deneuve share at least two paramours that we know of: Marcello Mastroianni and Franco Nero.

R1 gets two "Oh, dears," for crapping herself missing two mandatory commas.

The three living legends can laugh at the unalive status of your English skills, Dolto.

R14 mystifying about Ursulas dress! It's the same damn dress, right?

according to IMDB

What's New Pussycat was released in 1965- "What's New Pussycat" (1965) was filmed in various locations in France, primarily in Paris and its surrounding areas. Key filming locations included Villa Castel Henriette in Sèvres, Château de Chaumontel, and Luzarches. Studio work was also conducted at Paris Studios Cinéma in Billancourt. The film was produced in the USA and France, according to Svensk Filmdatabas.

I was certain Julie Christie was dead but apparently not.

[quote][R14] mystifying about Ursulas dress! It's the same damn dress, right?

What's mystifying, r34? It wasn't uncommon for actresses to borrow studio clothes for premieres and special events.

R34 no one’s talking about that movie released a year earlier. She wore the dress in Casino Royale—which was being filmed at the exact same time as the Born Free premiere.

For my money Julie Christie was the most beautiful, most sensuous, most talented , most charismatic of that trio.

Don’t you know it!

She won her Oscar in mid-April, just after OP’s photo was taken

Back when we had STARS!

Did Julie Christie ever marry?

Back when beautiful women were actually beautiful.

Wearing fur to that event seems like an odd choice, though.

[quote]Wearing fur to that event seems like an odd choice, though.

Why, r43?

thanks R36, R37

Ursula seemed tense that evening. Here she´s having a lively discussion with Raquel.

R42, she lived with the journalist Duncan Campbell for many years, and they later married secretly.

R46 poor Woody. Did he get a woody?

I wonder why Christie stopped acting? She was having a nice resurgence about 15 years ago, but then disappeared. She even got an Oscar nomination in 2006.

She should have won —

Christie appeared in a Redford film as a terrorist on the run. Good movie and great cast, too. Sarandon was in it.

I read that as Julie Andrews and was trying to figure out which one she was. I need a nap.

There's just no glamour anymore.

Julie Christie, Ursula Andress, and Catherine Deneuve walk into a bar...

[quote]According to Ursula Andress' wiki bio, she and John Derek separated because of her affair with her "Once Before I Die" co-star Ron Ely.

Tarzan!

Ursula Undress

Mmmm…chewy!

[quote]Ursula Undress

My stepson's mother!

Ahh, my former stepson's mother.

1966 was a good year for fashion. The young and hip were adopting the Swinging London mod styles, but they still looked well-kempt, well-fitted, and properly washed.

all still alive and hung onto their good looks for longer than usual

Catherine, Raquel, and Ursula at rehearsals.

Raquel and Julie practicing their curtsies.

Warren Beatty and Leslie Caron at rehearsals.

How tall is Ursula, 4’6”?

Sadly, I believe I've heard Julie Christie has been suffering from dementia the last several years.

Now this is glamour

R66, no she does not have dementia, she has some form of amnesia. Here: " Julie Christie is suffering from a rare and irreversible condition called autobiographic amnesia, which results from trauma to the hippocampus, the part of the brain where memories are made." It's not neurodegenerative like Alzheimer's.

You have to love that picture of the three of them, dressed and coiffed to the nines. And wearing long gloves too, which pretty much went out of fashion a couple of years later. And most of all, all that ceremony for a movie premiere whilst today we just have “content” that slinks along into streaming services with no special fanfare.

[quote]And most of all, all that ceremony for a movie premiere

Well, it [italic]was[/italic] a Royal Film Premiere with Queen Elizabeth in attendance, so there was something extra about it.

Copycat post ^

Ursula Andress is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

It’s just so fascinating looking back at the glamour of it all, all of them beautiful and groomed. And the Queen and the Duchess of Kent in their white furs and tiaras looking amazing.

Thanks for posting this OP.

I always liked the Duchess of Kent. She comes across as a very kind woman. I especially like the way she stopped being a working royal, dropped the HRH, and became a music teacher. She has been open about her experience of severe depression, not very typical of the buttoned up royals.

[quote]R72 Ursula Andress is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

I agree she was extraordinary looking.

Nice video analyzing her style:

[quote]R74 I always liked the Duchess of Kent.

Who’s that? Is she the racist Blackamoorgate bitch?

It's called GLAMOUR!

R76, No. That is Princess Michael of Kent.

R7

I thought that was him at first, but it seems more like Peter Sellars.

Did they all go to Vidal Sassoon together for the bulk rate on Tabby Cat Orange hair color?

All this for Born Free. Such enjoyable treacle. Music by John Barry. I saw it at the 50cent matinee for kids.

R79 it’s verified as Woody…read the thread.

R74. also, a practicing Catholic. She converted, and had the full support of the Queen. She’s the oldest living royal. “Wimbledon lady”

One can never have enough tiaras,gloves & stoles.

Beautiful thread. So much glamour in our young lives!

John Derek was a homo THAT is why they broke up.

R49 even without her autobiographic amnesia, Christie has said she never aspired to be the another Meryl Streep. She loathes Hollywood, has taken years off at a time from films, and prefers the private, secluded life. She’s retired and at least her last film was a decent Redford film.

R76, you mean Princess Michael of Kent.

thanks for all the additional b&w photos, newsreel, etc.

would an event like this, a "Royal Film Performance" where royals are attending, had an afternoon rehearsal?]]

photos above suggest it.... hard to imagine they all would assemble earlier in the day ... to do what other than practice curtsies?

Julie was also experiencing the success of

Doctor Zhivago › Release date December 31, 1965

for most film goers that's would have been the first film they would have seen her in

Catherine Deneuve's first big success was in the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a musical directed by Jacques Demy. (wiki)

Here´s footage of the rehearsal:

Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers seem so uncomfortable with all the attention.

They were the least important people in the room ;)

Raquels manager husband Patrick Curtis spills some tea how Raquel managed to secure the spotlight.

[quote]Curtis explained how they manipulated her appearance to draw all the focus on her: “She decided, with my help, to wear a modest white dress with just a little cleavage, but it did make her stand out. With all the other big names at the that even, it was Raquel who was photographed by, I think every photographer in London while shaking hands with the Queen of England.”

[quote]The following day Raquel wearing her simple white dress appeared in every London and provincial newspaper. Curtis was accused of manipulating the photograph and arranging it to be printed at the exclusion of everyone else who attended that evening. You would have thought Raquel was the sole big star there.

[quote]Curtis admitted the photo had been manipulated, but by Raquel herself. They had both worked out a plan of action prior to the event. She maneuvered herself into the line of stars to the area where she would be closest to the photographers in an unobstructed view.

[quote]“She instinctively knew that it would be her picture which would be used in the papers. Her dark skin on that white dress really made her stand out in that crowd.”

[quote]“It was that picture, thanks to the London press, which ‘made’ Raquel an international celebrity – being photographed with the Queen of England. It didn’t hurt her in the States, either. One of the wire services picked it up and it appeared in practically every major newspaper at home!”

That hussy! Trying to outshine the Queen herself.

Woody Allen is in every picture she’s in….was he a co-conspirator?

Ursula Andess arrived in Hollywood in 1955 and signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, but this generated no acting roles because she kept skipping speech and elocution classes that would've perfected her English. She bought out her contract and signed with Columbia Pictures, but that also produced no gigs.

Her big claim to fame at the time was her "romance" with James Dean, whom she supposedly dumped for John Derek. She put her career on hold to play wife to Derek, but re-emerged and re-invented sleeker and with long hair (at Derek's behest) as a Bond girl in "Dr No" (1962).