Bevy of Beauties: Moon Maidens

Laurie Mitchell, Leslie Parrish, Pat Mowry, Tania Velia, Sanita Pelkey
and Lisa Simone in Missile to the Moon (1958)

Have you ever noticed how many 1950s sci-fi films seem to involve traveling to another planet and finding an underground civilization of beauty pageant winners in showgirl costumes and high heels who are desperate to breed with earthmen for some obscure and highly improbable reason?

Light and Shadow: Vivian Blaine

On the Set: Grace Kelly

Director Alfred Hitchcock serves the tea on the set of To Catch a Thief (1955)

The Art of the Dangle: Joan Collins

Great Mysteries: The Dinner Party (TV) (1973)


Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

Josephine Baker, draped seductively atop a dead carnivore.

Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 80

Rebecca De Mornay


Piper Parabo


Mena Suvari


Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds (2009)


Ute Lemper


Magali Amadei


Carla Gugino


Adriana Lima


Ana Hickmann


Marion Cotillard

Adventures in Androgyny: Bette Davis

Old Acquaintance (1943)