Dreams of Fair Women

Exuberance is beauty. Marilyn Monroe was the exquisite, transcendent afterlife of the gorgeous Norma Jeane.

For the sweetness of her many smiles perhaps unmatched, but the one in the last photo takes it: the cute and the beautiful alchemized into otherworldly radiance.

Blue eyes, golden hair, and that beautiful, ever-ready, slightly goofy smile. Did I mention the body? Let's just say we would have believed in her as Rollergirl with no further proof than a five second tracking shot of her in her skates.

Perhaps the most beautiful face to grace the screen.

Her violet eyes may be her most memorable feature, but the rest of her was pretty memorable too.

She reminds me, if you'll permit the inversion, of Jessica Alba--but she's a bit cuter and a bit less pretty.

A Nordic wonder: super-sensual lips and a generous endowment on a petite frame.

The youngest dream on the list brings an old-fashioned hourglass figure and those ripe irresistable lips.

A healthy, curvaceous American girl with a distinctive face.

Rose would be the other "perhaps" on the list--along with Jean Seberg, perhaps the most beautiful face in cinema history. I have not discovered that she possesses any curves, however.

A beautiful woman with the sweetest eyes and a typical Hollywood figure.

Miss Amanda has a look very reminiscent of Scarlett Johansson's, just not quite as hot.

The Italian Marilyn Monroe, more curvaceous, rather less pretty--though her eyes are magnetic. Contra Marilyn, she was more seductive onscreen than in photos.

A classic beauty in her abbreviated prime with considerable erotic allure.