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Betty Boop | "Red Hot Mamma" (1934)

Between the hotvintagepoll, the vintagestagestars poll and the vintagetvstars poll, my conviction that people were just hotter last century is getting increasingly cemented

Veronica Lake for Paramount Pictures, circa 1945

Rita Hayworth in a publicity portrait for the Columbia Pictures/Orson Welles film noir The Lady from Shanghai, photo by Robert Coburn, 1947. Miss Hayworth's costumes in the movie were designed by Jean Louis.

Shy Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her guy Gus Eisman (Tommy Noonan) in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953), directed by Howard Hawks

𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐛 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 '𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧' 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲, 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩, 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 '𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝟒 𝐀.𝐌. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐱, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧… Cher and Raquel Welch perform the song I'm a Woman on the Cher variety series, originally broadcast by CBS on February 16th, 1975. Cher and Raquel's gowns were designed by Bob Mackie.

Teresa Wright as Annie Sullivan and Patty McCormack as Helen Keller in the “Playhouse 90” production of 'The Miracle worker' on CBS TV in 1957.

James Cagney, Mary Martin, Irene Rich, and Pat O'Brien rehearsing prior to the Red Cross Mercy Radio Broadcast in 1940 to aid the war refugee fund.

Ace of the title sequence/graphic designer/filmmaker Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996)

Bea Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009)

Happy birthday, Al Pacino!

George Sanders (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972)

“Your No. 1 BOXOFFICE STAR in Her No. 1 BOXOFFICE HIT!"

Betty Grable stars in H. Bruce Humberstone‘s PIN UP GIRL, which opened 80 years ago today. #OnThisDay

Judy with Liza for ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’

Remembering quadruple threat Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)

Already a year. Harry Belafonte (March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023)

Propaganda

Judy Garland (Meet Me In St. Louis, A Star is Born, Summer Stock)— Judy is the GOAT when it comes to classic movie musicals. The voice of an angel who deserved so much better than she got. She can sing she can dance she can act she's a triple threat. Though she had a turbulent personal life (her treatment as a child star by the studio system makes me mad as hell like Louis b Mayer fight me ((she was made to believe that she was physically unattractive by the constant criticism of film executives who made her feel ugly and who manipulated her onscreen appearance by capping her teeth and using discs in her nose to change its shape and Mayer called her "my little hunchback" like imagine hearing that as a child and not having damage)) she always goddamn delivered on screen and in any performance she gave. She began in vaudeville performing with her sisters and was signed to MGM at 13. Starting out in supporting parts especially paired with mickey Rooney in a bunch of films (she's the best part tbh) she eventually transferred to the lead role. She is best known for her starring role in movie musicals like the iconic Wizard of Oz (somewhere over the rainbow still hits hard and is ranked the top film song of all time), meet me in St. Louis (Judy singing have your self a merry little Christmas brings tears to the eyes she is that powerful), the Harvey girls (she looks like a technicolor dream and sings a catchy af song about trains), Easter parade ( dancing and singing with Fred Astaire), for me and my gal, the pirate, and summer stock ( with pal Gene Kelly who she helped when he was starting out and he helped her when she was struggling). But she also does non- singing just as well like the clock ( her first movie where she sings no songs and is an underrated ww2 era romance), her Oscar nominated a star is born ( like the man that got away she put her whole soul in that and I have beef with the fact she lost to grace kelly ((whom I love but like still not even her best work)), and judgement at Nuremberg (a courtroom drama about the nazi war criminal trials). Outside of film she made concert appearances to record-breaking audiences, released 8 studio albums, and had her own Emmy-nominated tv series. She was the youngest (39) and first female recipient of the Cecil B DeMille award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. Girl was a lifelong democrat and was a financial and moral supporter of many causes including the civil rights movement (she was at the March on Washington and held a press conference to protest the 16th street Baptist church bombings). She was a friend of the Kennedy family and would call jfk weekly often ending the calls by singing the first few lines of somewhere over the rainbow (she thought of them as Gemini twins).She was a member of the committee for the first amendment which was formed in response to the HUAC investigations. Though she died far too young and tragically she remains an icon for her work and her life. As a girl who didn't feel like i was as pretty as everyone else I have always felt a connection to Judy and I just really love her.

Natalie Wood (West Side Story, The Great Race)—She went through so much shit which I know can be said for all these women but Natalie really was a star and her death often overshadows her career and life. She could make you cry, but she also had the capacity to be incredibly funny which I think is lost on people.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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:( :(

The first Old Hollywood star I fell in love with is really about to get knocked out...

At least it's by Natalie, I guess.