That was fun! The “10” most beautiful women of the sixties. Its funny but you learn a lot doing this. Looking through thousands of photos clues you into a couple of things. The ‘models’, the Cheryl Tiegs, Candace Bergen, Cybill Shepherd, the Ali MacGraw, they were models for a reason. If they could be photographed bad I didn’t see it. Whereas I wasn’t happy at all with the choices for Julie Christie, Stella Stevens, Connie Stevens, Dawn Wells or Angela Cartwright. Another irritant was how Getty Images invariably grabbed the really good ones. [Looking back on my lists, I believe the 60’s had the strongest decade 1-10. The 40’s, 50’s, 90’s, 00’s and 10’s I couldn’t even come up with 10 women.]
Another interesting finding was that I wasn’t able to get into the icons, Raquel Welch, Ann-Margaret, Joey Heatherton and the like. And although I personally loved the big hair and the bold colors of the 60’s, I toned it down for the faint of heart. I also could have gone with a 100% black and white gallery, nobody likes B&W more than I do. But then, no one lends herself to color like Cybill Shepherd. It would be a crime not to photograph her in color. I had assumed one of my youthful sex symbols would have been my favorite. Nope. Cybill Shepherd. In her modeling days where I nabbed her photos, she usually had such a delightfully smartass expression. Now that I’ve done the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s, I can’t wait to do the other decades!
Natalie Wood
Charmian Carr
Hayley Mills (I almost forgot Hayley, I tend to think American. She’s also not what one thinks of with the phrase ‘stunning beauty’. Yet she is. I’m going to go into this further with a separate post on her. I’ll just say she has a following.)
Ali MacGraw – whatever “it” is, she had it in spades
Jacqueline Bisset
Candice Bergen
Angela Cartwright (Interesting that 2 of the picks should be from Sound of Music) She was really coming into her own when she left Lost In Space. Absolutely stunning from my perspective. Why the TV career petered out is beyond me. She was on the show with a very beautiful woman named Marta Kristi, yet for me Angela had no equal. Sort of like Eve Plumb being the standout on Brady Bunch compared to Maureen McCormick.
Dawn Wells (there’s no debate by the way) Passed away December 30, 2020 at the age of 82. I can’t imagine a more smoldering picture of her.
Cheryl Tiegs – I took out Cheryl’s photo. The more I listened to her in YouTube videos the less I liked her. I could overlook the enormous ego, she was a Big Deal back then. What I couldn’t over look was when the pilot of her 4-seater bush plane suffered a seizure while taxiing. She didn’t turn off the engine and aid the pilot, she bailed out of the plane.
Julie Christie – “All women are aware of that moment when suddenly the boys don’t look at you. It’s a fairly common thing, when suddenly you no longer attract that instant male attention because of the way you look. I never really knew how to enjoy beauty, but it took the form of a subconscious arrogance, expecting things, all muddled up with celebrity. Then you begin to deal with it. In the 1970s, I was amazed to be talked about as a 60s sex symbol. I wasn’t that person, as if I were a doll from the past. I had to learn to come to terms with that.” (just watched Shampoo, she was 35. I didn’t really know of her until about 10 years ago when I first saw Dr Zhivago. I thought sure I would think of her as sexy, but no, just beautiful.)
Michelle Phillips (the Girl Scout earning her ‘Cigarette Badge’)
Marlo Thomas (totally missed it back then, what a woman) She was the quintessential “sexy” woman, because she never tried to be sexy.
Tuesday Weld – I had Tuesday in the wrong decade, the 50s. She was more of a 60s gal. Great line in her IMDB quotes page. When asked what drove her into seclusion she responded, “I think it was a Buick.”
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd
That’s got to be tough though, going from about the most beautiful woman in the world 50 years ago… to being 68. TCM recently played The Last Picture Show starring Cybill. In it the fan got a see at least a topless scene with Cybill. Unless they were ‘stunt’ boobies. They did that back then.
Women of the 2000’s Women of the 90’s
Women of the 70’s Women of the 60’s
(for the first comment: Lori Saunders)
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