...tantas Saudades...!!!: September 2017

...tantas Saudades...!!!

Saturday, September 02, 2017

Muito Mais Atrizes...!!!

Bibi Andersson & Liv Ullmann in PERSONA

Most probably the greatest on-screen Jeanne La Pucelle ever;

(Joan of Arc) Maria Falconetti in 1928.

Annabella... not Marlena!

Definitely not this Annabelle:

Annabella - is truly bella

... and this has nothing to do with

"Loving Annabelle" either!

Her like -those eyes- rarely rivaled nowadays;

except maybe...

That girl from Roswell...

And, while we're in the realm of the weird...

Zebra Girl

(with Weegee -a good friend, surely- working on

a James Pappas historical photograph)

and Wonder Woman '77

Feminine Perfection?

Katharine...

... was far from perfect!

Simone...

also. Oui. Elle aussi!

What can you expect: she was French!

But it does not necessarily get closer

with the British...

Maggie Smith

Ingrid Pitt

and others...

Perfection is simply not of this world -

AND ONLY AN ILLUSION ON CELLULOID!

... more Evidence:

Claudia Cardinale

Lucia Bosé

Aye - Luminous Lucia was something else alright...!

But even she was

less than perfect...

somewhat like

Anne Maria Pierangeli

- better known as Pier Angeli

(stay tuned for more...)

Dawn Wells

Virna Lisi

The history of Cinema is full of it...

Polly Bergen

- before Candice...

Now Voyager's Cooper

- as charming as the Bride in her best day

Gloria Swanson

Marjorie Rambeau

- her best wishes came with her autograph!

Before Space:1999's Maya, there was...

...but we're getting sidetracked here...!

Catherine Schell remains our number 1 alien girl - ever

(Gamora, Nebula, Mantis - you never had a chance!)

But back to far more... serious fare:

Natalie Dormer

- if there's ever a new Maya - it's her

Muriel Catala - and adoring fan

Anicée Alvina - and an admirer of her own...

Doris Wishman - no Doris Day...!

(1966's ''Another Day, Another Man''...!)

(another woman too, apparently...!!)

... which was pretty much the norm in old Hollywood indeed!

Lolita aka Sue Lyon

- infinitely superior to Dominique Swain

in that title-role.

(One might say... she was born to play the part.

But is it necessarily a good thing... hmm?)

Diane Keaton

- should have never gone looking for Mr. Goodbar

(nor hung out with Woody for so long - but that is another story)

Madchen In Uniform's

Leontine Sega

I'd gladly say ''Luminous Leontine'' but...

... hard to believe it was remade in the late 50s too

with Lilli Palmer and Romy Schneider!

... you get the drill.

... is this really Julie Andrews?

She has better luck in showers than Janet Leigh -

but only marginally so, really.

Joan Crawford, Pier Angeli - and Gig in the middle.

(never mind him!)

Rhonda Fleming

Grete Reinwald

- no relation at all to Molly Ringwald

(much less Judge Reinhold!)

... very true, Vivien Leigh

However, neither Hedy nor Vivien achieved legendary status

like Garbo... and Dietrich

Marlene - here she is!

Charlotte

When Charlotte Rampling was photographed by Helmut Newton

(sometime before or during her dalliance with Jean-Michel Jarre)

she was truly at her peak - it is obvious...

(What was the idea with the ''cup the breast''

side boob view though, I wonder? Hmm... Odd!)

Imogen Hassall

Imogen looked a lot like...

Jenny Agutter

- remembered by most genre fans for

''Logan's Run''

Jenny apparently had sights on nabbing

the coveted (?) part of Emmanuelle...!

And so did Ornella Muti...?

Laura Gemser actually made it her part - for a while...

There is only one Emmanuelle, however;

Sylvia Kristel

Sharon Tate

- the most tragic beauty of Hollywood

Lauren Bacall - caught between two rats

We'll just skip that one as well... right on through the NEXT one...

Ursula Andress - the original Bond Girl

who emerged, like Venus, from the foam of the sea...!
The Original Aquaficionada...?!?

Carrie Fisher

Natalie Wood

... and this looks like Ava Gardner - aiming for a rat!

Barbara Eden

- both before and after ''I Dream Of Jeannie''

Gentlemen reputedly prefer blondes

-especially in such dresses-

but they still marry brunettes instead, in the end...

Anonymous Brunettes!

(because... who truly wants to bed a celebrity - hmm?)

Jane Seymour - in the most luminous dress ever

Closely followed by the purple elegance of...

Lucy Lawless - Xena went to Rome...

(all roads led there - right?)

Julie Newmar

Lynn Collins in John Carter of Mars -

the biggest bomb Disney ever had

which convinced them to straight out buy Star Wars

instead of ever attempting again to rival it...

(John Carter had been billed as ''before Star Wars'' fare!)

And this assuredly led to the Marvel excesses, too...

Jacqueline Bisset - in her prime - had few equals

Corinne Cléry

Raquel Welch - in her Fathom days...

Meg Ryan - when she was still bankable

(Right, Columbia?)

The magnificent Maria de Medeiros -

in all her "Pulp Fiction/Henry & June" glory -

forget the British and the French;

and you can forget the Italians too;

the Portuguese are *it*

Catherine Bach a.k.a. Daisy Duke

(we had to come back to America - duh)

Rita Hayward

Blondes, one must admit - even platinum blondes - have that certain

je ne sais quoi though...?!?

(Must be that womentor fantasy - it never dies!)

(It either dies hard - or dyes RED)

Never comes close to the TTBs though;

the Top Three Bombshells!

And to truly end in beauty...

... a mystery nude!

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