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07-20-2007, 03:31 PM
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inexplicable leading ladies
Here's my favorite:
Joan Crawford  This woman is the most inexplicable movie star of all-time. She's scary, she looks like Frankenstein after a gender reassignment, and, oh yeah, she couldn't act. There've been plenty of "odd" looking leading ladies, ones that aren't conventionally pretty: Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Kathy Bates, Amanda Plummer (all of them superb actresses) - but Crawford was just downright bizarre. I find it absolutely perfect that most people remember Crawford not for one of her many atrocious performances, but for Faye Dunaway's over-the-top lampooning of her in Mommie Dearest. 
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#2
07-20-2007, 03:34 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
Angela Lansbury was actually considered pretty hot in her youth.
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07-28-2007, 12:37 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
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[ QUOTE ] Angela Lansbury was actually considered pretty hot in her youth. [/ QUOTE ]    [/ QUOTE ] You should know better. Angela Lansbury is already at least 40 in these photos. She was born in 1925, for Pete's sake. Anyone who thinks she wasn't drop dead gorgeous in her youth has simply never seen a picture of her in her youth: 
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#5
07-28-2007, 12:44 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
Angela Lansbury at 30 in one of my wife's favorite films, The Court Jester with Danny Kaye:
 She was unfortunate in that she was one of those women that seemed to age early. By 40 she had already developed her famous jowl. She was a bombshell in her 20s though. 
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#6
07-28-2007, 01:17 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
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Angela Lansbury at 30 in one of my wife's favorite films, The Court Jester with Danny Kaye: She was unfortunate in that she was one of those women that seemed to age early. By 40 she had already developed her famous jowl. She was a bombshell in her 20s though. [/ QUOTE ] I like Angela Lansbury. I think Angela Lansbury is a great actress. I do not think Angela Lansbury was ever hot. She was mildly attractive, at best. And the photos posted just prove my point. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#8
07-28-2007, 01:00 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
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Yup, I saw her in I think it was a production of Gaslight when she was still very good looking. [/ QUOTE ] Her first film. She stole the movie from Ingrid Bergman, and earned an Academy Award nomination.
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#9
07-20-2007, 03:42 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
In Kirk Douglas's first autobiography(terrific read btw), he says he was very hot for her, and she had a great body back in the day. But when he was just about to do the nasty with her in her house, he realized she was nuts and beat feet hasty.
Crawford looked far more harsh and bizarre as she aged. She didn't start off too bad. Comparisons to other female stars who rapidly lost their attractiveness: Angela Landsbury started out as a hottie. So did Shelly Winters.
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07-20-2007, 03:48 PM
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Re: inexplicable leading ladies
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In Kirk Douglas's first autobiography(terrific read btw), he says he was very hot for her, and she had a great body back in the day. But when he was just about to do the nasty with her in her house, he realized she was nuts and beat feet hasty. Crawford looked far more harsh and bizarre as she aged. She didn't start off too bad. Comparisons to other female stars who rapidly lost their attractiveness: Angela Landsbury started out as a hottie. So did Shelly Winters. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, Crawford was fairly attractive back in the silent picture days but I don't think she really became a huge star until her 40s...
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