[censored]! me likey!

Why not. Like the bouncer at the Gammorrah (FO:NV) always said 'grab a girl, or a guy. Whatever you prefer" Who knew post apocolyptic vegas was so open

I find the 1930s-1950s to be just cooler and the people just looked better. I love how women looked back then.

Not enough time to research the names and faces, so the only one that comes to mind is Kate Hepburn. Looks and attitude!

Yes please to all the women posted here.

Veronica Lake....HGNHGHG

Meh, don't think so.

Yes, yes, and YES!

Nah, I think now a days women are overall much, much better looking than in the 40s. Movie stars included.

Yes. For pure aesthetics, I suppose you cannot choose an era over another - not for the most beautiful at any rate, I guess indeed medecine and surgery and whatnot make it more common nowadays.

There is however a sense of class and bearing you don't find much anymore. No wonder those actresses (and actors) could become complete legends. I'm not so sure the same will happen with those of today, even with a delay of seventy years.

That's not it. The studio system as it existed in the early 1900s was one, big propaganda machine. The sources that covered cinema were in cahoots with studios to push this or that person or movie at the studios' behest. In this way, star personas were (much more) carefully choreographed (than they are today). Today, the system in which celebrities operate is less cohesive in its coverage of them, so its much more difficult to build a legend around what really is just a person playing pretend on screen.

With so many sources belittling our contemporaries, there's very little chance that anyone will become a legend. The only exceptions are really old, "distinguished" men such as Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood, and possibly George Clooney some years from now.

While people back then were certainly more classy, that has little to do with their staying power.

I saw some of the photos posted.

Those oldies fems don't look fun and look like they are very boring

They were probably a good deal less vacuous and thick than most people today are.

Ingrid Bergman, particularly in Casablanca

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2191235072/nm0000006

Yeah cos it's standard for women to wear masks (make-up) that stuff can work wonders, love it.

At least women back then had a lot less plastic on their face. So if she's pretty it's likely it was a true natural beauty.

Oh for pity's sake.


It is very easy to make someone look very attractive in black and white. Females especially. So no, I think your point is utter tripe.

That's when you only take into account to skin tone and texture. Without good skin care women at the old time have poor skins that's for sure, but their bone structure is the key to determine their beauty. The bones tell the truth, in many ways.

In which case, I http://punchbowlblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/frankie.jpg the argument that women in the 40's had better bone structure.

My first post went away for something unrelated to the topic, so I'll just repost what I said on topic.
I completely agree with you that actresses from the 40s didn't have better bone structure than, say, Angelina Jolie. I suppose the OP prefers actresses from the 40s because of something far more subjective, like the style, the fashion and the taste of that time. Also, one major difference is that today actresses are not "stars" glamorized by studios that have them under contract, this makes them less likely to become "legends" of the cinema. I love studio pictures of actresses from the 40s/early 50s as they are really a wonderful way to study lighting when you're learning how to draw portraits. Very dramatic lighting!

That said, a few (many?) actresses from the 40s were really gorgeous, like Veronica Lake, Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner. But I prefer the style of actresses from the 50s and 60s: Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Faye Dunaway, Claudia Cardinale... These are some really stunning actresses, imo.
And since we're talking bone structure, 60s actress Capucine had really perfect bone structure!

This is.... Lame.

indeed, but so is your interest in mass effect...there is much better!

Don't you mean Dead Space...?

And this thread seems rather... foolish... maybe, I don't even know. Maybe if it didn't say HOTTEST it would have been better.

Define fun? Most women back then, in their position had the talent for heavy drinking, and powerful libidos to match the men. It's just compared to today's female celebrities, they didn't flaunt it around like it was something special.

dead space is the well dressed r￡tard child of system shock 2......
and no, i mean mass effect.

Isn't that Bioshock?