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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 23, 2024 21:52:54 GMT
In no particular order, the fourth entry in the top five, Julie Christie.
  
"A list is so droll, Fading Fast." JC
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Post by NoShear on Jul 23, 2024 23:04:50 GMT
Another surprise shift; in this case, more modern relative to your previous three. I don't think a fellow New Yorker of yours, Woody Allen, is enjoying this list too much. Even if one or more of the actresses you've chosen met with Woody Allen's signoff, Fading Fast, Allen thought lists were what Californians did, which is to type he didn't like 'em. |
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Post by christine on Jul 25, 2024 5:15:48 GMT
You have excellent taste in actresses Fading Fast.
So I went on my search and found Julie Christie being - - - well - beautiful!
 Christie without head covering
 Christie with head covering which I thought is very wonderful on her
 and Julie Christie in (as close as I could find) in a beret!
She's just a beautiful women!
Also, as I was researching found out that she is considered one of the 10 most beautiful women ever!!!
Like I said - you have good taste Fading Fast!
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 26, 2024 18:23:48 GMT
And Joan Fontaine makes a total of five.
  
We have a special extra choice coming soon that floats outside the ring of five - pics and an explanation will be provided.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jul 26, 2024 19:17:13 GMT
I lost track of what these top-five represent. Top 5 British born actresses? Blondes? Please enlighten me. (not that I haven't enjoyed the photos, especially that Joan one on the lower left which is new to me). |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 26, 2024 19:24:55 GMT
I lost track of what these top-five represent. Top 5 British born actresses? Blondes? Please enlighten me. (not that I have enjoyed the photos, especially that Joan one on the lower left which is new to me). |
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Post by christine on Jul 27, 2024 22:54:31 GMT
I believe I was posting about Dean Martin and NoShear was posting about Norma and Fading Fast commented that he had more than one favorite - five.
NoShear and I were curious so Fading Fast started sharing- one at a time.
You're right Fading Fast, it is fun!
However, now I'm intrigued by what might follow!
Hope my explanation isn't too long jamesjazzguitar.
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Post by NoShear on Jul 27, 2024 23:00:19 GMT
I believe I was posting about Dean Martin and NoShear was posting about Norma and Fading Fast commented that he had more than one favorite - five. NoShear and I were curious so Fading Fast started sharing- one at a time. You're right Fading Fast, it is fun! However, now I'm intrigued by what might follow! Hope my explanation isn't too long jamesjazzguitar. I've been thinking of a top five, christine and Fading Fast... |
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Post by NoShear on Jul 27, 2024 23:19:24 GMT
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Post by christine on Jul 27, 2024 23:46:02 GMT
I really like that idea NoShear!
I can definitely come up with four more - as long as my Dino's first on that list!
My second choice posted soon!!!
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Post by NoShear on Jul 27, 2024 23:49:30 GMT
I really like that idea NoShear!
I can definitely come up with four more - as long as my Dino's first on that list!
My second choice posted soon!!! Looking forward to it, christine... |
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Post by christine on Jul 28, 2024 3:22:49 GMT
My second favorite male actor/star is George Kennedy. As Fading Fast says - the next four are in no particular order.
I loved him in every movie I saw him in - he made over 100 films.
Academy Award winner for best supporting actor in COOL HAND LUKE 1967
I adored him as July Johnson in BANDOLERO! 1967
He was such a versatile actor in films and television.
Besides he seems to me like such a big teddy bear - I love teddy bears!!!
(Dean's still first on the list!)
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 28, 2024 10:51:49 GMT
The reason, when asked, I don't list the 1964 DB5 Aston Martin from the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" as my favorite sports car of the '50s and '60s is because it would be the same as saying Tiger Woods was the best golfer in the 1990s or Tom Brady is the best quarterback of all time.
This is also why Grace Kelly wasn't part of my silly top-five list. As my quite confident girlfriend says (tongue in cheek, but to make a point): "She is the one who makes the rest of us not even want to try anymore."
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"If that is Fading Fast calling again asking me out, tell him we've talked about this and he promised to stop calling." -GK
And one more, an honorable mention from the world of "women who actually live on planet earth" for Phyllis Thaxter: A great looking woman who could be your neighbor.
 
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Post by Fading Fast on Jul 28, 2024 16:37:45 GMT
From 1932's "Hot Saturday."  Edward Woods and Lillian Bond
I'm posting this picture from the movie, even though these are not the leads, because their clothes are just so era perfect and cool.
I love her print dress (with the diamond buttons) and hat and I love his hat, tie, spearpoint-collar shirt and sweater (which was a casual touch back then).
It all just wonderfully says, "young, aspiring 1930s couple."
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jul 28, 2024 17:29:18 GMT
I'd like to comment on this photo of Julie Christie that Christine posted. The head covering is a great example of a small bit of regionalism that can help to make costuming look authentic.There's no telling if the piece is actually hand knitted in the traditional fashion or if it was commercially manufactured (though I strongly suspect the latter), but the shawl, as it is called traditionally, is likely a piece of Orenburg lace (or meant to be at the very least.) Though you will see it as a rectangular scarf-shaped garment, the tradition is for the shawl to be square. In this way it can be used as a shawl, headwrap, baby swaddle, a multitude of functions. Certain lace patterns are traditional, usually those that look like flowers, trees, animal tracks, or other natural subjects, and it is also traditional to be comprised of a defined center, border(s) and edging. It is a garter stitch piece of lace, which means most of the work is done with the knit stitch rather than the purl stitch. (It is pretty much universally held by knitters that the knit stitch is not only quicker to perform but also easier to control for tension. But I digress.)I do not exaggerate when I say these shawls are gossamer. Traditionally, the extremely finely spun thread used was made solely of goat down (similar to cashmere or mohair). The soft, fine, long staple down hair comes from the Orenburg goat which can only be reared in Orenburg. The steppes of the Ural mountains provide the proper climate for the goats to create this down, and efforts to accomplish same elsewhere have met with failure. Today the down is typically blended with some silk to provide strength, but the goat down hairs are sufficiently strong on their own despite their fineness. Orenburg shawls are typically wedding gifts and generally referred to as "wedding shawls." Though they are quite large, often measuring five feet square, the shawl can pass through a wedding band. It is said that if the fiber used to knit the shawl creates a garment too bulky to perform this task, the marriage will be ill fated. There are two contemporary knitters who are considered THE authorities on Orenburg lace. First is Olga Alexandrovna Fedorova (1935-2008). Her designs are beautiful, and her work is technically flawless. Among knitters she is called the "legend of the steppes."Olga at her home
one of Olga's shawls (61" x 53")  The other masterful Orenburg knitter is Galina Khmeleva. Galina learned directly from Olga, and since Olga's passing is now the foremost authority. Galina traveled outside Russia for the first time in 1990, and she now lives in Fort Collins, CO. I have been to Galina's lectures and even a small workshop. She has brought the Orenburg tradition into the twenty-first century with a joy that seems to know no bounds. Her spinning is peerless, and her shawls are incredible. I've held the shawls she knitted, and if my eyes hadn't been open to know they were in my hands, I might not have known. At the workshop, Galina encouraged all of us to pass a shawl through our wedding bands, which of course we did. Gossamer, indeed.Galina Khmeleva
Galina wearing one of her shawls 
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