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HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE STARS POLL
Pitting every movie star hottie from before 1970 in one massive battle royale. Hot & Vintage Movie Women starts March 2nd
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Rita Moreno (Singin' in the Rain, West Side Story)—She’s an EGOT, an absolute legend for how she navigated her career as a woman of color in the fifties and sixties. Her performance as Anita in West Side Story is why I go back to that movie so many times. She is an icon and she is the moment.
Angela Lansbury (The Harvey Girls, The Court Jester, The Manchurian Candidate)—The babe, the myth, the legend. In her own words her early hollywood roles were "a series of venal bitches" and they were all glorious. Half of them wanted to kill you and you probably would have thanked them. She even goes toe to toe with Judy Garland in The Harvey Girls! That said, she was chronically underused and misused during this era - she was just 36 when she was cast as Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii and a few years later commented that she'd played so many 'old hags' that most people thought she was in her 60s. She thought she was "all talent, no looks" but she was the full package! Post-1970 I hope we all know what an incredibly talented and compassionate badass she was, but I feel like not enough people know her early roles as a hot (often villainous) young thing.
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Rita Moreno propaganda:
"Amazing showstopping actress in her one big memorable role as Anita in West Side Story. She sings and dances with unmatched joy and energy, and then breaks your heart with her acting. Rita took a role that felt as a stereotype to latina women and made it compelling and multifaceted. Her subsequent career was filled with mostly side roles, but she still managed to excel in whatever Hollywood threw at her."
"It’s Rita!! The EGOT herself! She can act, she can sing, she can dance, a triple threat. Obviously absolutely iconic as Anita in West Side Story (her part of the Tonight Quintet is the sexiest part of the film, fight me). But before that she was the amazing Zelda in Singin’ In the Rain!?! Thanks Zelda, you’re a real pal."
"She continues to be amazing but also she's got legs for days."
"THEE iconic rita moreno, EGOT winner, civil rights activist, theatre legend. watch her documentary "Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It". also her rendition of "fever" on the muppet show"
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Angela Lansbury:
"Angela Lansbury might not be where your mind goes first when you think of hot leading women, because she had a later career revival. But she began acting in the early 1940s after leaving London due to the Blitz. In the first couple decades of her film career she has an openness about her. She said she never really fit in with the Hollywood crowd and to me she gives off a friendly, untarnished vibe."
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"Most of us know Angela Lansbury as old lady sleuth Jessica Fletcher, but it's important to know that she was smoking hot in her younger days as well as a damned fine actress. Although she didn't get lead roles until her early 40s, at 17 she was a supporting actress in films such as Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Grey, for which she won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress and was nominated for the Oscar. Even in her memorable performance as the manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate, she is listed as a supporting actress as she does not play the love interest. She was successful both on stage and screen, and won the Tony for her lead role in the musical Mame on Broadway in 1966. TL;DR While Angela Lansbury mostly played supporting roles in films before 1970, she had what it takes to be a leading actress, which we know from her success on stage and tv from the mid 60s onward"
"She looked like a princess but bit like a viper"
"Is there anything this woman couldn't do? Act in comedy and drama, sing, dance, be a wonderful human being - quite simply a true and wonderful lady."
"she is the fairytale princess of my dreams in court jester"
"god she had such an incredible career all throughout her life really but as a young lady she was just as incredible as she was in her later years. enchanting voice, amazing personality, and absolutely GORGEOUS. she lamented not having the looks to play leads in romance but that idea is so batshit because look at her??? she's one of the most terrific women of all time. also she's my grandmother's favorite actress and i truly get it"
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which streaming service has the most vintage movies? If you don't know, maybe your followers could answer? 🙏
Ooh hoo hoo you asked and I'll answer!!
I actually made a post like this for the hot men tournament, but I can't find it now so I'll do it again from scratch. The short answer is that I don't know of any one streaming service that has all the old vintage movies—but most streaming services have a "classics" genre category that can get you started. Here's a small selection of what you can find on different streaming services:
TUBI (free):
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Olivia de Havilland)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Vivien Leigh)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell, Julie Newmar)
North by Northwest (Eva Marie Saint)
The Music Man (Shirley Jones)
The Women (Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, several other hotties in small parts)
The Philadelphia Story (Katharine Hepburn, Ruth Hussey)
Notorious (Ingrid Bergman)
Bell, Book, and Candle (Kim Novak, Elsa Lanchester)
The Talk of the Town (Jean Arthur)
Dark Victory (Bette Davis)
KANOPY (free through some libraries):
Dial M for Murder (Grace Kelly)
His Girl Friday (Rosalind Russell)
Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck)
Black Orpheus (Marpessa Dawn)
Flower Drum Song (Reiko Sato, Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki)
Marriage Italian Style (Sophia Loren)
The Rose Tattoo (Anna Magnani)
Tokyo Story (Setsuko Hara)
War and Peace (Audrey Hepburn, Anita Ekberg)
Salt of the Earth (Rosaura Revueltas)
Metropolis (Brigitte Helm)
The Red Shoes (Moira Shearer)
HOOPLA (free through some libraries):
The Court Jester (Angela Lansbury, Glynis Johns)
Sunset Boulevard (Gloria Swanson)
A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor)
Barefoot in the Park (Jane Fonda)
The Barefoot Contessa (Ava Gardner)
Wings (Clara Bow)
YOUTUBE (has a lot of older movies that have slipped through copyright/are still up for some reason):
Charade (Audrey Hepburn)
Story Weather (Lena Horne)
Gilda (Rita Hayworth)
Rebecca (Joan Fontaine)
This entire playlist of Indian cinema that I just found (Madhubala, Waheeda Rehman, Nargis, Meena Kumari, etc.)
And that's just a small sample. There is also always your local library for physical DVDs, the Internet Archive, and....other methods.....if you know exactly what you're looking for.
I haven't seen all of these movies, so don't consider them personal recommendations—these are just famous movies with our hotties in them, so please be careful if you have trigger warnings. Good luck and have fun!
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brb following irene papas into the vents 😭😭😭😭😭😭
my downstairs neighbors are asking why my vents are always groaning and creaking and leaking skittles and at this point I don’t have much to tell them because I’m too busy pushing James Dean back inside with a mop
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I vote early in the polls which means the whole weeks in gnawing and gashing my teeth waiting for the polls to end so my faves can win or get ahead but either way i can do nothing but wait 😭😭
Round 4 polls are going down all this weekend! Gnash your teeth and watch the chaos unfold!
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Appreciated hijacking. The chicken of this post now has the bomb of free radio plays hidden in it
What's your favorite piece of vintage media that's NOT a movie?
There's these old Sherlock Holmes radio plays I used to binge—I think maybe they were these ones, though I wouldn't have guessed Basil Rathbone's involvement because the show’s defining features were (1) not being very good and (2) segueing into an ad for Clippercraft Shirts every five minutes. The only story I really remember has Moriarty hiding a bomb inside a chicken at the diamond jubilee, which is cleverly foiled by Sherlock Holmes taking the chicken bomb and jumping into a lake with it. People in the 40s really knew how to write a gripping yarn.
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A roast chicken. Moriarty was dressed as a royal footman and did a silly voice so nobody suspected him in the slightest. Truly Arthur Conan Doyle could never.
What's your favorite piece of vintage media that's NOT a movie?
There's these old Sherlock Holmes radio plays I used to binge—I think maybe they were these ones, though I wouldn't have guessed Basil Rathbone's involvement because the show’s defining features were (1) not being very good and (2) segueing into an ad for Clippercraft Shirts every five minutes. The only story I really remember has Moriarty hiding a bomb inside a chicken at the diamond jubilee, which is cleverly foiled by Sherlock Holmes taking the chicken bomb and jumping into a lake with it. People in the 40s really knew how to write a gripping yarn.
#they also functioned under the framework that a retired Watson was telling these stories by his own fireside to a friendly announcer guy#Never explaining where Holmes was in this scenario. possibly dead?#idk there’s lots of great commentary in the notes from people who remember much more vividly than I do#glad I’m not the only one who regularly thinks about Clippercraft and the overexcited organist!
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I don't know how the next few brackets will shake out, but I do know that if it comes down to Marilyn vs. Hedy, my voting strategy is in place. I will jump from a bridge into shark-infested waters. If I get torn apart, then it's Hedy. If I somehow get back to shore, Norma Jeane gets my vote. ... But I also want to see your recommendations! So maybe I need to re-think my plan and choose something non-lethal—any suggestions? A simple coin flip???
In case of emergency, break glass and create a vivid imaginary scenario where you are being seduced by both hot ladies over beer and nachos at a quaint local dive bar. If the hallucinatory smells of jalapeños and stale Guinness don’t help make up your mind, you’re done for and it’s time for the sharks.
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I wanna do something with my life, like watch more movies.
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afternoon boost :)
Round 4 polls are slowly going down all this weekend so be sure to get your votes in if you haven't yet. Round 5 of the Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament will go live on May 1st. There will also be a surprise for you guys in May but I'm not discussing that yet.
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Breaking news: 70% of tumblr users would Fuck That Old Man
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Cyd Charisse as Maria Corvier
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) dir. Roy Rowland
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Round 4 polls are slowly going down all this weekend so be sure to get your votes in if you haven't yet. Round 5 of the Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament will go live on May 1st. There will also be a surprise for you guys in May but I'm not discussing that yet.
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Jane Fonda's poll photo actually leaves me breathless, how am I suppsoed to function every time it's on my dash
Jane Fonda vs Lena Horne
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I promised myself I wouldn't get too emotionally involved with the hot dead ladies bracket but, goddammit, when I first saw Laura when I was 12 I thought Gene Tierney was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Here are some less typical photos of her for propaganda.
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DEBORAH KERR as Karen Holmes in
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) dir. Fred Zinnemann
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