They Say What They Say

I'm going old-school with the picspam tonight.

I was thinking today, about all the movies I watched when I was growing up; all the old Hollywood classics that the TV stations screened on Saturday afternoons before sport took over and they stopped showing them. I loved those movies and for many years I wanted nothing more than to wake up one morning to find myself miraculously transformed in Cyd Charisse or Anne Miller. Of course that never happened, although I suspect many of my girly habits were formed by watching 50's actresses swish around in gorgeous, full-skirted frocks *g*

Anyway, that got me to wondering about the pinup boys of yor. The guys we would have been squeeing about in the 30's, 40's and 50's, had we been around back then. So I did some googling and came up with a list of my old-school imaginary boyfriends - the ones that had a place in my heart long before Josh and Peter, Jared and Jensen, and Callum and Hugh came along and dragged me kicking and screaming willingly into fandom.

( My all time favourite, Mr Gene Kelly )

( Timelessly elegant, Cary Grant )

( Tyrone Power )

( Burt Lancaster )

( Fred Astaire )

( A Young Frank Sinatra )

( No one works a tux like Humphrey Bogart )

( Gregory Peck, the original thinking woman's sex symbol )

( Clark Gable )

( How can you not love James Stewart? )

( Beautiful, brooding Gary Cooper )

( They don't make Hollywood bad boys quite like Errol Flynn anymore )

( You really can't have Spencer Tracy without Katherine Hepburn, you really can't. )

( People tend to forget that as well as being one of the original big screen tough guys, James Cagney was also a very accomplished song and dance man. )

I'm sure I've missed someone, so if you can think of an old-school hotty that should be added to the list, free free to contribute in the comments, because you can never have too many cute boys, no matter what era they come from!

I'm going old-school with the picspam tonight.

I was thinking today, about all the movies I watched when I was growing up; all the old Hollywood classics that the TV stations screened on Saturday afternoons before sport took over and they stopped showing them. I loved those movies and for many years I wanted nothing more than to wake up one morning to find myself miraculously transformed in Cyd Charisse or Anne Miller. Of course that never happened, although I suspect many of my girly habits were formed by watching 50's actresses swish around in gorgeous, full-skirted frocks *g*

Anyway, that got me to wondering about the pinup boys of yor. The guys we would have been squeeing about in the 30's, 40's and 50's, had we been around back then. So I did some googling and came up with a list of my old-school imaginary boyfriends - the ones that had a place in my heart long before Josh and Peter, Jared and Jensen, and Callum and Hugh came along and dragged me kicking and screaming willingly into fandom.

( My all time favourite, Mr Gene Kelly )

( Timelessly elegant, Cary Grant )

( Tyrone Power )

( Burt Lancaster )

( Fred Astaire )

( A Young Frank Sinatra )

( No one works a tux like Humphrey Bogart )

( Gregory Peck, the original thinking woman's sex symbol )

( Clark Gable )

( How can you not love James Stewart? )

( Beautiful, brooding Gary Cooper )

( They don't make Hollywood bad boys quite like Errol Flynn anymore )

( You really can't have Spencer Tracy without Katherine Hepburn, you really can't. )

( People tend to forget that as well as being one of the original big screen tough guys, James Cagney was also a very accomplished song and dance man. )

I'm sure I've missed someone, so if you can think of an old-school hotty that should be added to the list, free free to contribute in the comments, because you can never have too many cute boys, no matter what era they come from!