Who's your favourite Actresses
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 02, 2025 02:40 AM)
This is a great question.
In general I divide all actresses into two types. 'Cold' vs 'Warm'.
'Cold' actresses are often those who's talent I (and many others) respect the utmost.
KHep (Kate Hepburn)
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Joan Fontaine
Rosalind Russell
Constance Bennett
Kay Francis
Dorothy McGuire
Eleanor Parker
Mary Astor
Elizabeth Taylor
Olivia deHavilland
Janet Gaynor
Ginger Rogers
Jane Fonda
Norma Shearer
Virginia Mayo
Helen Hayes
June Allison
Lucille Ball
Jane Wyman
Anna Magnani
Una Merkel
Fine actresses but not inviting, engaging, appealing to me personally. They're too taut, tart, thin-lipped, frosty, rigid.
I admire their skills but I'm often uninterested in their career or their movies. There might only be an occasional film of theirs which I'd re-watch.
I just don't enjoy them on a gut level. They're chilly, off-putting, arch, astringent, aloof, regal, haughty. Snotty. Icy. Caustic. Standoffish, flouncy, brittle.
Not pleasant or enticing to watch. Its a mystery, but nevertheless there it is; that's how I feel.
All the above stands in opposition to 'Warm' actresses. Fleshy, torrid, steamy, breathless, curvy, lissome, nubile, toothsome, throaty, dusky, smouldering, dark-eyed.
Joan Blondell
Ann Southern
Senta Berger
Monica Vitti
Claudia Cardinale
Romy Schneider
Wanda Hendrix
Marlene Dietrich
Jean Peters
Ann Blyth
Anne Todd
Anne Shirley
Dorothy Malone
Jean Harlow
Gayle Hunnicutt
Jean Simmons
Jane Greer
Sheree North
Jeanne Moreau
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 02, 2025 12:27 PM)
ah, like the Tennessee Ernie Ford lyric says
I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' an' trouble are my middle name
I was raised in a cane-break
by an old mama lion
Can't no high-toned women
make me walk the line
(listen to the Steve Goodman live version to get the full effect)
Anyway it's all of little moment. What happened was simply this: I got fed up with watching st television and attending st movies.
Decided to switch my intake to only proven, vetted, curated quality. No more pikers.
My philosophy is: there's no reason to ever sit through a bad movie. Get up and leave the theater instead!
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 03, 2025 02:26 AM)
Nope. Not at all. Not that era. At some point –independently –all on my own, my tastes simply ratcheted up to a better level. Same as what happened to Scorcese. Elevated one's game.
Got fed up with all BS television and all BS summer blockbusters. Crapola.
So it's more just kinda like, '
idiot savant'
.
If you think there's nothing to recommend this path, et me just repeat: two of my pals have movies coming to theaters next year. We're all of like mind.
Classics only! Stay authentic.
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 03, 2025 11:09 AM)
Again, I would have to demur. You would know better than I do. She is a contemporary star, I'm sure; so the name is unknown to me.
I'm always watching noirs and war flicks and westerns.
So I will take your word for it!
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The Movie Lady — 7 months ago(September 03, 2025 06:35 PM)
She sadly passed in 2009 at age 32.
She was contemporary because she was in Clueless, 8 Mile, Just Married, Uptown Girls and Don't Say a Word
Goddamnit, man! You done made me hurt my dick hand. (Phone Booth, 2002) -
PygmyLion — 7 months ago(September 02, 2025 04:05 PM)
I mostly watch classic movies also
Favorites:
Lorreta Young
Ingrid Bergman
Ida Lupino
Wendy Hiller
Others that are pretty high
Katherine Hepburn
Greer Garson
Irene Dunne
Deborah Kerr
Margaret Sullavan
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Grahame
Joan Fontaine
Susan Hayword
Audrey Hepburn
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 