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Who Is The Hottest Vintage TV Star
Here we pit the hottest TV stars from 1950 to 2004 against each other in a devastating bracket to determine who is the hottest of them all! Grab some snacks and a box of tissues and tune in to see who will make it to prime time and who gets banished to the graveyard slot!
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That's all for todays polls! 11 more up tomorrow!
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Cicely Tyson Vs. Joan Bennett
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Cicely Tyson - (East Side/West Side, Roots, Sweet Justice) - No text propaganda
Joan Bennett - (Dark Shadows) - She went from film femme fatal to the most gorgeous goth soap opera milf I have ever seen. A truly underrated star having been mostly blacklisted from Hollywood after her third husband shot her agent, she is still fondly remembered for her work on the Soap Opera Dark shadows. She was also an active member of the Hollywood anti Nazi League and donated to the Civil Rights Movement
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Debbie Allen Vs. Vivica A Fox
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Debbie Allen - (Fame, A Different World) - A Kennedy Center Award winning actress, choreographer, and TV director! She also has a Netflix documentary called "Dance Dreams" about her dance studio which is very cute and fun.
Vivica A Fox - (Generations, Out All Night) - No text propaganda
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Amanda Randolph Vs. Judy Parfitt
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Amanda Randolph - (The Laytons) - First African-American performer to star in a regularly scheduled network television show, technically it aired in 1948, before the 1950 cut off but I believe the historical importance should allow an exception. Like almost all shows aired on the defunct DuMont Television Network, few details exist and all footage was destroyed when the network shut down in 1956. Yes, she was playing a maid, but still, she was there at the very beginning of commercial television and I think that's cool!
Judy Parfitt - (The Jewel in The Crown, Pride and Prejudice) - A familiar face on British television, stunning looks and still going strong. Her performance in The Jewel in the Crown is so brilliant that you'll hate her so much in that role and still be attracted to her.
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Carol Cleveland Vs. Nichelle Nichols
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Carol Cleveland - (Monty Python's Flying Circus) - another hilarious comedy lady without whom python would 100% not have worked
Nichelle Nichols - (Star Trek) - She speaks for herself. Legendary, iconic, at the forefront of feminism and civil rights in the 60s, she is a triple threat who did so much more. She volunteered from 1977 to promote recruitment diversity within NASA, including some of the first female and ethnic minority astronauts. Martin Luther King Jr. compared her work on Star Trek as a 'vital role model' to the civil rights marches. She refused to be dismissed, fought for visibility and shone whilst doing so. As a woman in stem, and simply a woman she means the world and stars above to me.
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Nichelle Nichols:
She is the original badass babe. She was a black woman in a leading role on TV in the 60s, a trailblazer for black actresses for years to come. She is so beautiful and so awesome.
she's fantastic. have you seen her? paved the way for black actresses on TV even while her lines and scenes were being cut and improvised the most iconic uhura line in the series. (sulu: "I'll save you, fair maiden!" uhura, pushing him away: "sorry, neither!") she's incredibly talented and it's a crime the show didn't give her more screen time (or make her sing more often because she also has a beautiful voice!)
“Sorry, neither” in response to “fair maiden” was ad libbed by her. There’s a lot more I could say but what else do you need??
A sci-fi icon!
She was such a trailblazer, and Uhura was such an important character for so many people to be able to see on TV. Apparently Mae Jemison (the first African American woman to go into space) cited her as a reason she wanted to become an astronaut. She was just an absolute legend!
The story of Martin Luther King telling her not to quit Star Trek gives me chills. Representation matters. “Thank you so much, Dr. King. I’m really going to miss my co-stars.” Dr. King's smile, Nichols recalled, vanished from his face. "He said, 'What are you talking about?'" the actress explained. "I told him. He said, 'You cannot,' and so help me, this man practically repeated verbatim what Gene said. He said, 'Don’t you see what this man is doing, who has written this? This is the future. He has established us as we should be seen. 300 years from now, we are here. We are marching. And this is the first step. When we see you, we see ourselves, and we see ourselves as intelligent and beautiful and proud.' He goes on and I’m looking at him and my knees are buckling. I said, 'I…, I…' And he said, 'You turn on your television and the news comes on and you see us marching and peaceful, you see the peaceful civil disobedience, and you see the dogs and see the fire hoses, and we all know they cannot destroy us because we are there in the 23rd Century.'"
She shared the first interracial kiss on Star Trek, helped propel real life African American women into space-related careers, and looks divine in a mini skirt.
HOW DID UHURA WALK BACKWARDS SO FAR??? WOW!
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Gina Torres Vs. Katee Sackhoff
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Gina Torres - (Firefly, One Life to Live) - God, just look at her! She's a stunning woman, she's a black belt in Taekwondo, and her voice is amazing!
Katee Sackhoff - (Battlestar Galactica) - No text propaganda
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Eartha Kitt Vs. Anna May Wong
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Eartha Kitt - (Batman) - No text propaganda
Anna May Wong - (The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong) - The groundbreaking Chinese-American star became the first Asian-American to star in a TV show with this series on the DuMont Network. Like most DuMont shows, no episodes survive, but we know from her other roles that Anna May Wong was indeed very hot!
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Joan Chen Vs. Janet Hubert
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Joan Chen - (Twin Peaks) - No text propaganda
Janet Hubert - (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - No text propaganda
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Mary Tyler Moore Vs. Elisabeth Sladen
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Mary Tyler Moore - (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) - MTM's beauty was always being played up (with good reason), but she was just a fun performer, period. An actor, a dancer, and an incredible comedian who had so much chemistry with her co-stars, whether it was Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Harper, Betty White, or Ed Asner. She famously got American housewife Laura Petrie wearing trousers in just about every episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show, began her own production company (MTM Enterprises), and changed TV history with The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The 1960s That Girl had offered the world a show about a single girl, but Ann Marie was very much under the thumb of her parents and her boyfriend. By contrast, MTM's Mary Richards was single, steadily employed, and making her own decisions, paving the way for shows like Rhoda, One Day At a Time, and The Nanny.
Elisabeth Sladen - (Doctor Who) - I loved her as Sarah Jane Smith!
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Emma Thompson Vs. Jane Seymour
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Emma Thompson - (Fortunes of War, Tutti Frutti, Angels in America) - Does Emma Thompson even need an introduction? Brilliant actress, stunning looks and an absolutely fun and hilarious personality. What more can you ask?
Jane Seymour - (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) - I'd like to specifically draw attention to Jane Seymour in the Quinn years. In her forties, she was ethereally beautiful, and while the costuming and styling was less than historically accurate, at least it showed off her wonderful auburn hair. This was also the show where I first noticed her eyes' brown and green heterochromia, which, along with her delicate profile, gives her that extra touch of magic. With this show, she not only offered fun melodrama, she centered the Western genre on a woman and used its plots to argue for gun control, anti-racism, anti-censorship, anti-homophobia, and the social acceptance of those living with AIDS.
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Bea Arthur Vs. Joan Collins
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Bea Arthur - (Golden Girls, Maude) - Okay okay where do I even start!! Bea Arthur is incredibly attractive. She has a SUPER deep voice (stunning), a sort of regal, statuesque way of moving and talking, and she can kill you with a single piercing look. Like seriously. Her Looks have become a thing in both shows she plays a lead character in. Did I mention: TWO characters were *written for her*!! When she did Maude in 1972, she'd appeared on All in the Family as a side character and the people there loved her so much they went "this woman needs her own TV show". SO THEY WROTE IT. And made 6 seasons of it. That's how good she is. When the pilot for The Golden Girls was written, creator Susan Harris described the part that Bea would end up playing as a "Bea Arthur type" before they'd even cast her in the role. She was Jewish, she served as a typist and truck driver in the marines during WWII, she had a whole career off and on Broadway behind her by the time she started her career in television, and she was an ally to the gay community — there's even a shelter for homeless queer youth named after her. And did I mention her voice?? Because she can sing too!
Joan Collins - (Dynasty) - No text propaganda
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Bea Arthur:
She was just so funny and compelling onscreen. She had great timing. And she was beautiful no matter what age and she was an incredibly LGBT+ ally.
I think it's a very common experience to start watching The Golden Girls and immediately develop a crush on Dorothy Zbornak - and it's not a coincidence. Between her statuesque figure, her regal poise, her sharp wit and her wonderful, deep voice, Bea Arthur brings so much to the table that it's impossible not to be head-over-heels in love with her from the very first moment she appears on screen. Career-wise, she's a legend of the small screen; she received the third most Emmy nominations for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (an incredible 9!). Her guest appearance as Maude in All in the Family impressed both the public and the executives so much that they made a spin-off series *especially for her*. She led Maude - the sitcom - for six incredible seasons to critical and public acclaim, and this would already be enough to nominate her among the greats, but then - as the true queen she was - she went on to star into *another* legendary show, The Golden Girls, as *another* legendary character, Dorothy, and won another Emmy (as well as several nominations) for it, just because she could. As for her private life, she was known as a private, introverted person, who loved the simple things in life; all her fellow TV stars (including Angela Lansbury, who was a dear friend of hers) recall her as a kind, decent person and a wonderful professional, with impeccable work ethic and truly immaculate comedic timing. We do not support the military complex here, but we do support girlbosses winning, so let me just mention that she was one of the first women (ever!) to join the US marines; she was also a licensed medical technician. All in all - a legendary lady who definitely deserves your vote!
how many people can dress up as the Statue of Liberty and look this good?
have you ever seen a woman so beautiful you started crying
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soft butch queen. Who else could rock a papillon like that?!?
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Beatrice Arthur, Down in the Depths, 1980 TV
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First two days of polls fully up and scheduled in the queue! Will finish up the last day of polls tomorrow.
The first 10 polls will go up Tuesday, the second 11 on Wednesday, and the final 11 on Thursday. I'll be sure to reblog them on their final day like I did for Round 1.
Will try to have a fun poll or two up during the weekend and will be on to reblog additional propaganda and answer asks whenever I can.
Excited to see how Round 2 goes! We made a few tweaks to the bracket and ultimately are pretty happy with it. Definitely some tough ones but overall with the data from Round 1, I am much happier with the match ups for Round 2.
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Round 2 was a doozy to set the bracket for 😅. Spent almost 4 hours arguing back and forth on various match ups. Luckily we did have the data from the Round 1 polls to guide us a bit but even then it was rough. Gonna spend tonight getting a few more opinions before we officially set it and get all the polls in the queue. Can’t wait to see what y’all think of Round 2 this Tuesday!
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Round 2 starts Tuesday April 30th!
With Round 1 having officially come to a close I just wanted to do a wrap up before we start Round 2!
First off, thank you to everyone who participated! Thank you for all the submissions, propaganda, votes, reblogs, and kind words! I can’t wait to continue this fun with y’all in this upcoming round!
Round 2 will have a total of 32 polls featuring the 64 hot vintage ladies that moved on from Round 1. All Round 2 polls will be posted under #tv ladies 2 as well as each ladies individual tag.
If you want to check which of your favs made it into Round 2 and which got cut please feel free to check that out with these two lists: winners and losers
If your fav didn’t make it past the first round, don’t worry I plan on having some fun side polls throughout the week after all Round 2 polls go up, like declaring the queen of the graveyard slot and perhaps some other fun one off polls. They may be gone from this tournament but they are not forgotten.
Last chance to get propaganda in for Round 2! If you’d like to have your propaganda added to your favs poll for Round 2 please submit it using the linked form: additional propaganda form We will remove the option to send propaganda for Round 2 Monday night. Otherwise please feel free to keep sending in asks with additional propaganda you’d like us to post and tagging us in posts you’d like reblogged throughout the week of Round 2!
Finally, we have an FAQ in our pinned post! Noticed a lot of repeat questions during this first round so if you have a question please feel free to head over there first before sending an ask or commenting it. If it’s not there then please feel free to send in an ask! I am always more than happy to answer questions! I’ll usually just direct commented question to the FAQ or the ask box, that way if you do have something we haven’t yet covered we can post it as an ask so more people can see it in case they had the same question.
We are currently hard at work putting together the bracket for Round 2 and getting the polls ready in the queue! Thank you all and see you very soon!
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LAST DAY OF VOTING!
Eve Arden Vs. Dorothy Provine Vs. Vivian Vance
LAST POLL OF ROUND 1
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Eve Arden - (Our Miss Brooks) - No text propaganda
Dorothy Provine - (The Alaskans, The Roaring 20's) - No text propaganda
Vivian Vance - (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show) - No text propaganda
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