A comparison of "vintage" starlets and current ones

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A comparison of \"vintage\" starlets and current ones

I was doing some totally unrelated research, and, well, you know how Googling goes....
I came across this blog comparing former starlets with current ones. Warning, there are some risque shots, and it sure isn't from the ladies on the vintage side.
I don't know the blogger, but I have to think he/she is pretty dead on!

They don't make 'em like they used to
 
Way too many "stars" and "divas" competing frantically for our entertainment buck, producing the endless hours of sleazy 'entertainment' needed to fill MTV, the iPod and iPhones. Wonder if they still teach kids about the fall of the Roman Empire and 'bread and circuses'...:scratchchin:
 
Wow--I just sent the link to my DH--as a guy who adores the old-style movie stars, he'll appreciate this immensely.

This blogger is definitely spot-on; thanks for the post, Jenn!

The "modern" women look slutty compared to the class of the old timers. Too much skin, too many surgically enhanced boobs.... When a woman with a size 24 waist has size 42 boobs, it's pretty awful looking! The old gals had class! Take the Bettie Page shot vs the Carmen Electra--'nuff said.
 
Well the style has gone down hill. But in all fairness the vintage gals ( with the exception of Bettie Page) weren't starlets or celebrities but full fledged, big time movies star actresses with a lot of studio grooming and presentation.

And the modern gals he shows aren't really even starlets, but even by modern standards are trashy wannabe fake 'celebrities'. Those women are not actresses. Personalities maybe, but not actresses.

Gina Lollobrigida, Anita Ekberg, Mamie van Doren or even a young Zsa Zsa Gabor ( not serious actresses, more B movie eye candy and personalities) would have been more comparable types. And they would still outclass every one of the current gals he showed.

Hollis
 
The Vine is a local entertainment site.

In fairness to the modern ladies depicted, they're mostly trashy B-listers who even now, many haven't heard of. I haven't heard of half of them and this is a Melbourne website!

There have always been trashy wannabees, heck I think that Bettie Page was considered poorly in the '40s and '50s (not all her work is as demure as the shot they included, she was a porn star after all). Remember some of those Marilyn wannabees of the '50s and early '60s with their enormous breasts? Sure they were real, not enhanced but the tackiness factor is still there.

Just as there have always been wannabees (even if they didn't have access to the wonders of modern communication technology), there are some modern actress with style and class - Scarlett Johanssen, Liv Tyler, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchette, Emily Watson and Emily Blunt. A heap of ladies who focus on their careers not maximum publicity. Heck, even former bad-girls Angelina and Drew are respectable role models these days.

Nicole
 
Admittedly the blogger chose, purposefully I'm sure, some second-rate names. But, let's face it, several of the modern women are as "famous" today or as much a celebrity by today's standards as several of the old-time stars pictured. Not all of them are no-name celebrity wannabes. And even what may have been considered "trashy" back then looks upscale by today's lowered standards. Britney, Carmen Electra, Mariah--not exactly wannabe "B" listers.... In their early days, Tuesday Weld & Brigitte Bardot were considered starlet sex-kitten eye candy, so if you compare them to today's starlet sex-kitten eye candy, there's still no real comparison.

As to altered breastlines, it seems to me that yes, there have always been naturally big-busted, small-framed women, but they looked more natural. Overall, and the photos on that blog would seem to bear it out, women were more in proportion. Growing up, I don't recall seeing so many women with huge breasts that look simply stuck on to their tiny chests. Yucky, IMHO.

So, at my ripe old age of 55, I suppose I am a fuddy duddy....
 
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