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⌈ Secret Post #2792 ⌋

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Re: "Hot" people you don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

Jean Harlow - sex symbol of the 30s. She had a pudgy, scrunchy face and no eyebrows (or maybe just really, really pale blonde eyebrows). She also seems to be the rare person who looks worse in motion, because there's a posed portrait of her on her Wikipedia page where she looks pretty hot, but I don't find her hot on screen at all, ever. I'm sure she was a lovely person, and I guess I can't fault her figure, but she wasn't incredibly beautiful about the face, in my opinion. It's not entirely fair to judge a different era when people had different beauty standards, but there are other actresses from back then I think were gorgeous.

Ryan Gosling - he's not bad looking, I just don't get the hype. I suppose if he were available and interested and he didn't turn out to be a closet asshole or something, I might hit that, but I don't have any desire to throw myself at him the way some people seem to want to and I don't get why people get so hot and bothered over him.

Re: "Hot" people you don't understand

[(Anonymous)]

I love that you mentioned Jean Harlow - and yes, I had the same reaction. I think it is to do with differing beauty standards. Wasn't she one of the first to have the "blonde bombshell" description? I feel like she possibly ushered in a plethora of blondes to Hollywood.

I'm kind of wondering if she was a shift from previous standards of beauty - a less natural, more "artful" (obvious hair dye)? Mary Pickford was a blonde, but I believe she always had the "sweet" screen persona. Clara Bow and Theda Bara (a bit earlier than Harlow, I know) were dark-haired, so I wonder if that femme fatale seductress was usually a brunette, and the blondes were sweet and kind (see Betty & Veronica for later examples). Maybe the thing with Jean Harlow was that she set that image on its head?

Sorry to get tl;dr. So few people know about old Hollywood! :)