they are so skinny and a knock out compared to woman of today in hollywood.
saw rose marys baby other day and there too! damn, mia was ridiculously sophisticated,skinnyyyyyyyyyyy and sexy.
Incorrect. Women were curvaceous and voluptuous in the 50s, as opposed to the bulimic, skeletal look that is the standard for attractive these days.
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They balanced it better back in the '50s, that's why their so attractive . . . Ava never looked better fore Barefoot Contessa, and she'd never look so good again . . .
shareYou're right- Ava is at her most beautiful in this film, for sure. I just finished reading 'Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations' and she credits her beauty to renowned cinematographer Jack Cardiff (who worked on this film).
There's a great bit about how Ava called Jack Cardiff to her London apartment to arrange the lighting in her living room for her before she had to sit down for a "casual" meeting with some strangers. Fascinating and sad, really- she'd suffered a stroke in her 60s which left one side of her face slightly droopy... She was terribly insecure about her looks.
She's perfect in the part . . . and at the top of her career . . .
shareThey also wore waist-cinchers and girdles and serious structured bras to squish their bodies into those perfect shapes and those dresses. I remember red marks on my mom from the things she had to wear to "shape" her body, and how relieved she was when she could take those things off. Spanx had nothing on these torture devices!
shareWho cares about the marks . . . it's what looks good in front of the camera that counts . . . a movie could rise and fall on such things . . . and Ava looks very good . . .
shareYou say that in a couple of posts-- have you seen "Mogambo"? She is way hotter in that I think, running around in that slipping-off-the-shoulder green blouse and playing with the baby elephant. Love her traveling suit. I'm a straight woman, but she is just smokin' in that movie! How Gable could ever choose bland (although beautiful) Grace Kelly over her is beyond me! She just oozes sex appeal!
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I am in total agreement. Just finished watching it last night for the upteenth time; and I have never understood how Vic (Clark Gable), could go for cold, aloof, VERY MARRIED, naive and phony Grace Kelly!!!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
<<<How Gable could ever choose bland (although beautiful) Grace Kelly over her is beyond me!>>>
Well, of course, in the end he does choose Ava, so must have "seen the light"!
Women were curvaceous and voluptuous in the 50s ...Absolutely! I'm not sure what films the OP has been watching to enable him to draw his conclusions that make up the thread title. I'd hope that he realises too that Rosemary's Baby is a late 60's release. share
You are right. But today the words curvy, full figured and voluptuous have changed and now mean fat.
shareWhat a shame. Although there's always been plastic surgery, today we have Botox, fake boobs and butts, the works. Actresses like Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith have ruined their looks with all that crap.
IMO none of the women in movies today can hold a candle to Ava Gardner. There may be better actresses, but nobody is more beautiful than Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Jane Greer.
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Anorexic, you mean. That's probably why you like them: You're scared of real women and need a tiny stick figure.
shareThe women were indeed hot in this movie, many of the extras in the background at the party look much more attractive than most of today's so called stars.