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To start off...

Just my favorite Marilyn shot. Sadly, she did not live to make the Vietnam Era Cheesecake list.
Photo Credit: Art.com.

Being a consummate treasurer of films -- be they good, bad, color, b&w, new, old, talkies, silent, kinescope, Beta, VCR, DVD, mine, yours, his, hers -- I felt a kind of prickle at the quote from the article linked at Richard’s “Hanoi Jane” hoax-post on the Current Events board. In the article, it stated:

“Yeah,” said my stepdaughter, Jill, when I told her about this. “Imagine it’s the Battle of the Bulge and Betty Grable is up on top of a German tank saying the Yanks are fighting an evil war.”

The vote has been in for many years as to who was tops in the 40s, and there is a pretty good list of lesser and greater actresses who posed for the coveted WWII locker pinup -- but Betty Grable was THE barracks babe of the era. The comparison of Fonda to Grable, however, sinks -- both hard and deep.

The well known cheesecakes -- um, other than Betty:
Lauren Bacall
Ingrid Bergman
Bette Davis
Yvonne DeCarlo -- I mean, Yvonne DeCarlo, as in Yvonne DeCarlo
Gloria DeHaven
Marlene Dietrich
Dale Evans -- yes, that’s Dale Evens
Greta Garbo
Ava Gardner (and star spangled)
Judy Garland
Jean Harlow
Susan Hayward
Rita Hayworth
Deborah Kerr
Hedy Lamarr (from Samson and Delilah)
Dorothy Lamour (in 1947, Dotty was Bob’s Favorite Brunette)
Lovely Carol Lombard, who sadly died in a plane crash in 1942.
Martha Raye
The Big Valley’s fine flippered Barbara Stanwyck
Gene Tierney

The runners-up, though still reigning superior in the minds of the fighting men, generally a bare notch below the mighty Betty and friends above:
Janet Blair
Leslie Brooks
Myrna Dell
Jinx Falkenburg
Dorothy Malone
Virginia Mayo
Marie McDonald
Jean Sullivan
Helen Talbot
The Wilde Twins (AKA, Lee and Lyn Wilde, as in Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble)

And there were many, many others, but I think Fonda would be well out of the running.

For the 60s, I would say the triumph in glamour, beauty and talent clearly belonged to Carol Lynley (“The Light in the Forest” is one of my favorite flicks, and Carol ROCKED in “Harlow” as Jean Harlow). As this page clearly sums up, (and IMO as well) Carol is a shoo-in for ‘hot-babe’ of the decade -- and she was up against such heavies as Sophia Loren, er, Sophia Loren -- sorry, that’s Sophia Loren. Not to mention Jane Mansfield -- who was simply too hot to handle.
Photo Credit: Art.com.

The issue was lightly raised some time ago regarding my ‘questionable’ feelings toward Ms. Jane Fonda, and they remain unchanged. Sorry to ruffle feathers, but I enjoy her movies (I’m a movie addict, and I refuse to reform), but I do not ever recall enjoying her as a person. I have watched her on talk shows in the past, and she has always left me wondering about her sense of “reality”.

To return to the ‘burning’ topic, -- and having a little fun doing it -- I would have to say Raquel Welch stunned more than a few little boys through puberty as Fathom Harvill and Loana, with an appreciated assist from such luminaries as Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Stella Stevens, Elke Sommer, Goldie in her go-go mode, the ‘magnificent’ Mary (that’s Mary Tyler Moore, as perky Laura Petrie in her famous Capri slacks) -- and lovely Natalie kept me amazed and mesmerized on a daily basis.

Today, I favor a certain redhead by the name of Ann-Margret Olsson-Smith, Selected as Swedish-American of the Year 2001, and who proudly drives an American-made vehicle (Harley), wears her red, white & blue, and flies her WTC/Eagle-logo on her home page. She’s currently on tour as Miss Mona Stangley in a stage performance of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”.

"The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke." -- Ann-Margret

Well, this was fun.
;^)

Cheers, all,
Dan
--ps--
“Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.” -- Barbara Stanwyck