If you had an "Elise" figure, who would it be?
I'm sure many people would say Louise Brooks, but I'm interested in other ones...
(I'm not going to be sexist here, so if anyone has any male equivalents, lets hear them too)
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It's not "sci-fi", it's SF!
Jobyna Ralston (in her days when she co-starred with Harold Lloyd)
http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/jobynaralston.html
or if I may add a former actress who is still living:
Nancy Fox
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/198565
Paulette Goddard, Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth, Vivien Leigh, Barbara Stanwyck.
shareObviously, Grace Kelly.
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Judi Bowker (she's still alive and well and I'm told still acting).
Infact around the time I developed my major crush on Judi (which co-incided with a recent house-move so I was in a very emotional, bereaved, needy state which intensified all this) and even sent her an admiring fan-letter that received no reply (I cried for weeks)....
....I dug out Somewhere in Time and watched it again. Because of the circumstances it was far more a weepy than usual but it also comforted me in many ways. Reminding me how the most old school and almost ethereally elegant, lady-like actresses from the days of the stage with their emotional and sexual focused precision resonance of a ballerina poise can immortalise and project a living, breathing, female soul at its rawest and purest, in a way that can see the actress in question being on the receiving end of many a man's unrequited, uncontrollable love.
That's why I love the scene where Jane Seymour tells Reeve that the reason she initially rejected him is because that intensity of male admiration and some of the stranger of the influx of adoring fan letters made her fearful of the world and she'd developed a very shielded mindset to men like him, and that made me think maybe my letter to Judi hadn't said anything wrong or disrespectful that she'd disliked (I specifically avoided mentioning any feelings I had for her and just tried to keep the praise more on her talents and the TV work she'd been in that I liked anyway not just because she was in it), and maybe either she or her agent (who I'm told could be as much of an unsympathetic bulldog as Plummer is in this film) just found it second nature to throw away anything too long-winded or gushing.
There's many reasons I love that film more than ever now and I think that scene is the biggest one.
"See Tasha that's what I'm talking about! THAT is a WOMAN!"
Howard Keel please!
shareGene Kelly. The time difference (68 years) would work out quite nicely, too, bringing me back to 1946.
shareFor me, it's the great Japanese actress Setsuko Hara. She's still with us (94 years old) but she hasn't acted in more than half a decade, and (much like Elise) she's this extraordinary talent who charmed millions and never married.
shareGrand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She was only 19 when she and her family were killed in 1918.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/1f/13/fa/1f13fae55c03469efd1d07 9f40ff977e.jpg.
I always thought that she was the most beautiful of the sisters.
"The trick, William Potter,is not minding that it hurts."