Smoking women - part 5

Now with a header!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

I'm sorry, guys - I didn't realize that I hadn't supplied you with any gorgeous, smoking women since June. That's just unforgivable.

Part five of my Smoking Women series is completed with a smashing new wallpaper of my own creation, depicting the German femme fatale Marlene Dietrich (smoking, of course).

Fetch necessary tools and enjoy the ride! (Now, was I just too disgusting there, or what..? Please say a prayer for me, because I don't.)

And you know the drill - click on the photos to enlarge them. Duh.

Ann Dvorak (1917-1979)
(Natural causes)

[It is usually pictures like these that make my bofriend unusually interested in my passion for classic cinema. He would lean over my shoulder and yell "side boob!".]

For some reason this magnificent actress gave up her Hollywood career, making her last film in 1951. I will mention her role as the sister with an incestuous relationship to Paul Muni in Scarface (1932) and her role as the drug addict mother in Three On a Match (1932), and if you haven't seen her in them - be very ashamed. "Oh-oh..."

Also, this picture says everything about why I smoke.

Funny quote about how to pronounce her name:

"My name is properly pronounced "vor'shack." The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock."

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
(Appendicular cancer)

The greatest fashion icon of the 1960's. Why can't I be tall, slim and rich?

Danielle Darrieux (1917-)

Born in Bordeaux, I guess Mademoiselle Darrieux has fine wines mixed in her DNA, resulting in her astonishing beauty. She played opposite Charles Boyer in Max Ophüls' Madame de... (1953), a film I still find myself waiting impatiently to see.

Natalie Wood (1938-1981)
(Drowning)

Together in this picture with (no shit) Frank Sinatra, whom she made the war drama Kings Go Forth (1958) with. She died in late November 1981, at the age of 43, while sailing with her husband Robert Wagner and their friend Christopher Walken. She fell over board and drowned - according to some conspiracies she was murdered.

Harriet Hagman (1906-)

Heard of her? No? According to IMDb she only made two films in her career, including Thirteen Women (1932) [post], falling to her death in a trapeze act. Good looking woman, though. Can't find any date of death, so maybe she is 103 years old now?

Jeanne Moreau (1928-)

Like Ingrid Bergman, Moreau is that kind of beauty who looks best with almost no make up at all. Cool gal.

Joan Bennett (1910-1990)
(Heart attack)

The younger sister of Constance Bennett made no less than five films for German director Fritz Lang, more than any other American actor or actress.

Lauren Bacall (1924-)

One of the coolest on-screen personas in motion picture history, I believe. (I have her autograph!)

Norma Talmadge (1893-1957)
(Stroke)

[Side boob!]

The first one to put her footprints on the cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1927. By accident.

Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)
(Kidney failure)

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