JEMC said:
All three of them are better than Bridgitte Bardot (a beauty, but some of her ideas are not of my taste). And there's also Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench for example, but like Claudia Cardinale or Catherine Deneuve, I don't think they belong to that Golden Era of Hollywood. They are Cinema Myths, but not Hollywood Myths. |
None of those we mentioned were part of Hollywood's golden era. Not even Loren. That's why I called Bacall the last classic female Hollywood movie legend and Kirk Douglas the last living male one. Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Joan Fontaine all died recently, now Bacall. Everyone else who's still alive started their careers later or became famous outside of Hollywood (like Christopher Lee).
...and actually I was wrong when I called Bacall the last one. I just found out that Joan Fontaine's even more famous sister is still alive: Olivia de Havilland turned 98 last month. Incredible. I think I will watch "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn and her again tonight (released in 1938 and still the best Robin Hood movie ever made imo, got the beautifully restorated version on DVD). Watch out, Kirk, Olivia wil survive you.
*googles further*... What the heck, Doris Day is 90? Those old ladies... I will never again call someone the last of anything.
