We should look so good in our 70's....Sophia Loren rocks

[Pilgrim]

Let's not forget how this lady is holding up at age 72....(photo age 70)

[Dave W]

Two ladies that always got my attention were Ingrid Bergman and Donna Reed.
oh and Gene Tierney...and Grace Kelly..oh yeah, and...

Gene Tierney was beautiful, but by the time she was in her early 40s she looked terrible. Years in mental institutions and electroshock therapy tends to do that.

[4stringer77]

[ack1961]

I loved her in "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" - such subtle beauty and poise.

...and Dave, she probably was the classiest chick in the Electrotherapy ward.

[Dave W]

She was just beautiful in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

She may have been the prettiest when she went in, but not after she got out. She moved to Houston (where I grew up) in the early 60s after she married a local man. She appeared on TV in connection with some fundraisers and may have acted in some local plays. I remember being amazed at how much older she looked than my mother -- they were about the same age. She looked like a much older woman who had abused alcohol for years. Then I read about her history of being in and out of mental hospitals.

[gearHed289]

Let's not forget how this lady is holding up at age 72....(photo age 70)

Yeah baby!

[uwe]

Not a good example for natural beauty IMHO. Good ole Raquel started "helping mother nature" so early we never got to see the original state in the first place. I remember seeing a movie with her in the early seventies and a - needless to say: American, you know how these people are - member of the audience yelling: "Yeah, Silicon-Welch!"

It had nothing to do with computers.

Hollywood being Hollywod, you never know how much this old girl had done, but it was at least done with respect for the achievement of age:

[gweimer]

No Kim Novak fans?

[uwe]

Naw, never thought Hitchcock had great taste in his blondes, all a bit on the cheap or dumb or virgin side. I prefer Lauren Bacall type women.

[westen44]

A case could be made for both Hitchcock's women and Lauren Bacall-type women. 

[Pilgrim]

As I get older, I find that I gain the ability to appreciate beauty in women of many different ages.  I feel like that's a good thing.

[uwe]

A case could be made for both Hitchcock's women and Lauren Bacall-type women. 

You omnivorous lust leviathan!!!

[westen44]

You omnivorous lust leviathan!!!

My weakness has usually been brown-eyed beauties, though, immortalized by Van Morrison in his timeless classic.  

[Highlander]

... She was bi too.

German and English... a cunning linguist...

[ack1961]

I had a crush on Donna Reed when I was a teenager and she was in her mid 30's.
My girlfriend at the time (my wife for the past 22 years) thought it was kinda creepy to be pervin' on someone in their 30's.
Now, I'm in my 50's and watching her in "It's a Wonderful Life" when she was like 25 or something...

Did I go through some worm hole or something? 
How did I become older than Donna Reed, so now I'm perving in the other age direction?