The most gorgeous actresses of the last century, who they are, let’s remember together. These women attracted the attention of men, and the beautiful half of humanity, having seen them on the screen, sought to copy the hairstyles, style of dress, mannerisms…
- Marlene Dietrich lived a long and eventful life. She was born at the very beginning of the last century, in 1901, and left this world, a little before her centenary in 1992.
The most famous roles she played in ‘Blue Angel’, ‘Shanghai Express’, ‘The Devil’.
Marlene was born in Germany, but as an actress took place in Hollywood, becoming one of the most recognisable, sensual and fatal images of cinema.
Although there were rumours of her romances with such celebrities as Remarque and Gabin, Marlene all her life remained faithful to her husband, whom she married in 1927.
- Jane Mesfield was often called Marilyn Monroe’s sister, so similar they were. Born in 1933, Jane lived a short but very colourful life, leaving this world in 1967.
In addition to shooting in films, the actress actively participated in photo shoots ‘Playboy’, men just burned with the desire to get acquainted with this blonde. Photographers were able to make a unique shot, for a long time won popularity among fans of Mesfield. On it at once two stars – Jane and Sophia Loren, and the latter with a noticeable envy assesses through the cleavage breast ‘rival’.
For all his rapid creative activity Jane managed to become a mother of five children and three times married. The film ‘Girl Can Not Do It Another Way’, ‘The Married Man’s Allowance’, ‘Lost Bus’, starring Mesfield, have become masterpieces of world cinema.
3 Annie Sheridan as a child had another name – Clara. She was born in Texas in 1915, and became an actress by accident, her sister secretly sent a photo of Annie, then still Clara, one of the producers of Paramount Pictures. The girl liked, she was invited to audition in Hollywood, and already at nineteen she starred in her first role, after which and took the pseudonym Annie.
Everyone remembers such films with her participation, such as ‘Angels’, ‘Silver Stream’, ‘Dodge’.
- Jane Russell – another beauty of Hollywood. She gained her fame thanks to a happy accident – concluded with a millionaire Hughes contract for ‘promotion’ actress, providing cooperation for seven years.
The main picture in the works of Russell consider the film ‘Gentlemen Choose Blondes’, in it Jane starred with Marilyn Monroe.
‘Dream Woman’ and ‘Macau’ are two more pictures that stand apart from others, thanks to Jane Russell.
- Greta Gabro, like Marlene Dietrich also lived most of the twentieth century, from 1905 to 1990. Swedish by birth, she dreamed of Hollywood from childhood, and, at the first opportunity, arrived to conquer the American audience.
Greta’s beauty is special, with northern coolness and a special charm. It is for this that she was called ‘Scandinavian sphinx’.
Gabro began with roles in silent cinema, where it was necessary to express emotions especially brightly, so that the script was understandable to the audience.
Filmed Greta even in such a classic film as ‘Anna Karenina’. Her roles in ‘Lady of the Camellias’, ‘Two-Faced Woman’ made these films popular with the audience talent and charisma of the actress.
For her ability to present an image to the viewer, Greta Gabro was awarded an ‘Oscar’, and not for a specific role, but for her overall contribution to the art of cinema.
- Joan Crawford is the pseudonym of Lucie Lesueur. The actress was one of the main competitors on the set of Gabro and Dietrich, like Gabro, she once won an Oscar, and in addition, in the collection of awards actress has two Golden Globes.
The roles of Baby Jane, Milred Pierce are the most memorable in Joan’s work.
Strange as it may seem, but art historians have not yet come to a consensus on the year of birth of Crawford. Reliably known only the year of her death – 1977. - Betty Davis – the same age and constant rival of Joan Crawford. But, despite such fame and demand, in her life there were black streaks of unemployment, when the actress even advertised to find any job.
Despite their clear dislike for each other, Betty and Joan starred in a film about Baby Jane, thanks to which the thriller became a crazy success.
Betty is known as a record-breaking Oscar nominee, for this prestigious award she was presented ten times.
At the end of the last century, in 1999, Betty was given an honourable second place among the actresses of Hollywood of the twentieth century.
- Lana Turner was born in 1921. She began her popularity by working in pinup style for a modelling agency, inspiring the military with her photographs. In parallel, she often visited wounded people in hospitals, further establishing herself as a model. Postcards with Lana Turner were sold in millions of copies, and to receive a postcard with her autograph was the dream of many soldiers at the front.
Later, Lana signed a contract with a film studio, after which very quickly became the most highly paid actress.
In 1951, she won the prestigious title of ‘Miss Charm’ in a beauty contest.
9 Natalia Zakharenko is better known to the audience under the pseudonym Natalie Wood. The actress was born in 1938, in Vladivostok. Already in childhood, she was a fan of films directed by Sami Wood, thanks to which, in adulthood took this pseudonym. She starred in three dozen films and was nominated for an Oscar three times.
Gone from life Zakharenko early, in 1981, and the reasons for her death were shrouded in mystery. According to the official version, she drowned, falling from a yacht on the sea passage. What was in fact, known only to her husband, who received after the death of his wife a very large amount of insurance for her life …
- Eva Hartwig is a German, she started her career as a ballerina, and while performing in the famous Monte Carlo Russian Ballet company, she transformed her name and surname into Vera Zorina.
After some time, she received an offer from one of the producers to star in Hollywood. The offer was accepted, and successful film auditions became the basis for the conclusion of a seven-year contract.
‘Pointe’, ‘Crazy Goldwyn’, ‘Run for the Boys’ – the most famous pictures with the participation of Vera Zorina, who left the usual for the viewer pseudonym and in Hollywood.
11 Donna Reed was born into a large family, in 1921, the first child, and after graduating from high school, moved from the farm, where parents lived in the metropolis of Los Angeles, where, at first settled at her aunt.
His acting career Donna moved slowly, playing in episodes and masses, but then, when she gained experience, starred in ‘A Wonderful Life’ and became a real celebrity thanks to the role of Mary.
And a couple of years later, she became the owner of the ‘Oscar’, and, quite unexpectedly, for a minor role in the film ‘Forever and ever’.
Perhaps everyone remembers the pictures where Donna distinguished herself – ‘Portrait of Gray’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and others.
- Heda Lamar was born after the First World War, in 1914, and became popular after the first film with the attractive name ‘Ecstasy’.
After filming one of the millionaires made Heda an offer, and she moved to live in the Austrian castle spouse. But soon the monotony of life in the castle she was bored, and she literally ran away, ‘reincarnated’ in the maid, and getting to the capital of France, changed her last name.
13 Sophia Loren is an Italian, known to the whole world, born in 1934. She began her career very early, going on the podium beauty contest, when she was just fifteen years old.
Of course, the beauty of Sophie could not go unnoticed, and soon one of the famous producers of the time signed a contract with Lauren.
In the world of cinema Sophia Loren took all possible awards and honours, many of which, such as the Oscar and Golden Globe – repeatedly.
She considers her most important award to be the Oscar, as if to sum up her long career in the film industry – ‘for all the roles that give brilliance to films’.
14 Gina Lolobrigida is also Italian, born seven years earlier than Sophia Loren. As a child, Gina loved to draw, creating real masterpieces of painting, and learnt to sing. Her dream was the scene of the opera, and her mother cost a lot of labour to persuade her daughter to accept the director’s offer to star in ‘Fanfan Tulip’. This tape opened the way to Gina in Hollywood.
- Brigitte Bardot – the same age as Sophia Loren, she was brought up according to strict Catholic canons, but despite this, she saw herself as a cabaret dancer.
in her younger years she worked as a photomodel, and after random film auditions plunged headlong into the world of cinema.
About fifty films in which she played Brigitte, forever remembered by the audience, and the most famous was ‘God Created Woman’.
Now the actress is an active defender of animals.
