A few sultry lovelies to help me celebrate me Boithday!
One of my all-time faves, Ann Sheridan - "The Oomph Girl"
A publicity shot of Ava Gardner for "The Killers". Ava and Ann Sheridan were similiar in that they were both farm girls who won beauty contests, got brought to Hollywood, started out as just extremely fine window dressing but grew to become fine actresses as well.
Jean Peters
The eternally awesome Haji!
"Joe, I'm no actress, but I think I understand this girl" - Ava Gardner to director Joe Mankiewicz about her character in "The Barefoot Contessa".
Ah yes, Kelly Bundy....the reigning white-trash slut-queen of the Fox network in the 1990's! She is missed!
Publicity still of Ellen Barkin for "Sea of Love"
Fran Drescher... beautiful face, nice figure, great hair.... but then she speaketh! well, like Joe E. Brown says at the end of "Some Like it Hot"... "Nobdy's Perfect!". Actually her voice never bugged me and I kinda liked how she would say "Noy-uls" when calling Niles the Butler on "The Nanny".
Early shot of Holly Hunter, probably for "Broadcast News". I think she looks even better now.
"It's only a mooooooovie!" - Alfred Hitchcock to Kim Novak on the set of Vertigo.
Mitzi Kapture of "Silk Stalkings". Is that her real name?
A nice pic of Sharon Stone back when she looked like... Sharon Stone.
Belizzima!!!
A Susan Hayward still that somehow didnt make it into my all-Susie post a while back. Too many stills, not enough stills, gotta get more stills. 
A nice publicity shot of sexy and sultry Gloria Grahame, supporting actress Oscar winner for her role in the classic 1952 drama "The Bad and the Beautiful". She made a huge impact in Noir with her excellent performances in Edward Dmytryk's "Crossfire", Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and especially Fritz Lang's tension-filled Noir masterpiece "The Big Heat", to name a few. This pic was scanned from one of the vintage stills in my collection.
Another scan from a vintage still, this time the incredibly gorgeous Jane Greer. Jane had a strange career in Hollywood and spent a lot of time getting paid for doing nothing! Howard Hughes had her under contract and since she refused his advances he didnt let her work even though he was paying her regardless! It's a shame too because she was a competent performer and always a pleasure to look at, but no matter, it's her unforgettable perfromance as the ultimate fem-fatale in Jacques Tourneur's ultra-stylish "Out of the Past" that assured her status as a Noir legend.
Ava Gardner looks even slinkier and sexier than usual in this publicity still for Robert Siodmak's "The Killers". I recall seeing a clip of Burt Lancaster on some talk show talking about this film, and her in particular. It went something like: : "Ava Gardner, one of the few truly beautiful women I ever worked with . . . when we did our loves scenes for the Killers, i was deeply stirred . . . in the form of some embarrassment!" Oh that Burt!!
Barbara Stanwyck in Billy Wilder's 1944 Noir masterpiece "Double Indemnity", a role that she played to the absolute hilt! In my opinion Barb shoulda got the best actress Oscar that year! The reality is she never recieved an Oscar but instead was given an honorary award in 1982 for her contributions to the art of screen acting. I would venture to say this is an Academy oversight on par with Edward G. Robinson, Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock never winning Oscars! 
A great shot of Veronica Lake taken by George Hurell. Affectionately referred to as "Moronica Lake" by the cantankerous Raymond Chandler, she never-the-less made several memorable forays into Noir territory in films like "This Gun for Hire", "The Glass Key" and "The Blue Dahlia", all co-starring pint-sized tough-guy, Alan Ladd. Apparently many women copied her famous long hair style with the peek-a-boo bangs, which caused a lot of safety concerns when these same women ended up working in factories during WWII! Lake then appeared in a few films with her famous blonde tresses done up safely in a bun or some other contained style so the women would follow suit! She is definitely a unique presence on film, there really is nothing else like her! And she suuuuuuuure photographed well!
