14 January 2010

Devestating Beauty VI: Little Augury Picks

.my personal picks -
the idea of beauty-the devastating kind interests some- Others, Not So Much.

my personal picks reflect an array of faces-

my hope is that the diverse women on the master list in Episode IV will stir conversation on other blogs-your favourites?

there will be more about these women in the year to come here. each a novel surely, here we will just tap into the smallness and the reader is invited to go from there-

Pauline de Rothschild


Lena Horne


Merle Oberon


Lee Miller


Lady Diana Cooper
Tina Chow




Greta Garbo



Diana Mitford




Vivien Leigh


Maya Plisetskaya



Donyale Luna

My DEVASTATING BEAUTIES
that's 10 women
one gorgeous cowboy.
Gary Cooper

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.one episode in a series of Devastating Beauty
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17 comments:

  1. ALL THE GIRLS ARE EXTREMELY ELEGANT, BUT GARY... HE JUST MADE MY DAY..
    ;)

    @ MAISONCHAPLIN.blogspot.com

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  2. I agree about Gary. Merle Oberon is pretty fantastic - got some real character to her face. Gary tops them all.

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  3. Elegance on Friday. I'm looking forward to your novels and shorts. Did you know Merle Oberon had been married to Robert Wolders, Audrey Hepburn's last companion? What a lucky man.

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  4. dear,how great this has been. I don't know all these ladies. I do love your selection of Merle Oberon.BCT

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  5. MC and Blue, Yes I have always had a crush on Gary Cooper.

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  6. le style, I did realize that just when I started working on this. Hers is Indeed a devastating beauty- and her story is movie worthy.

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  7. I certainly can't argue with any of these - but Lena Horne was a lovely addition.

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  8. Mrs. B, Monica- Lena Horne gets better with age. Amazing really.

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  9. I've long wondered about
    Lena's secret ... . truly amazing!
    The more I read about Greta (Lovisa)
    the more I admire her.

    Jjj

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  10. I am so glad you have Lee Miller on there.

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  11. Janet- Lee Miller is a fascinating woman. Definitely worthy of Devastating! How many women make it to Hitler's bath tub? She has a wonderful life story.

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  12. Jjj- Lena is gorgeous no doubt-

    Reggie dawlin- glad you approve! I am hoping at some point others will do a run down of their 10!
    GT

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  13. i'm most certainly looking forward to reading more of your expanded version on these beauties...

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  14. Picking one's ten from your list is far more difficult than I expected, since I think a devastating beauty is someone who is not just physically beautiful, but EEE's etymological analysis in an earlier post helped. I broke my ten down as follows: those whose beauty laid waste to others - the La Belle Dame Sans Merci types; those whose beauty might have been a poor consolation for the difficulties that surrounded them; those whose beauty seemed to destroy them; and those whose beauty was so unearthly that it was not destined to last. So, in the first category, the Maharani of Baroda and Diana Mitford. In the second, Lee Radziwill and Queen Fawzia. In the third, Donyale Luna, Evelyn Nesbit, and Edie Sedgwick. In the fourth -those whose beauty was so sublime - Tina Chow and Stephen Tennant. And then for my tenth - someone who created beauty around her but who may not have had the full happiness she should have had - Pauline de Rothschild.

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  15. DMC- it does prove difficult. I also though Evelyn Nesbit was an excellent selection when I saw her on a list, here again, so very many ways to consider the names. I too-looked at the devastating aspect of beauty and how it can effect ones life- all of these are definitely in that category. I think we agree on 4 which is quite amazing really. GT

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