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| Jean Harlow |
Innocent, pure, fairy-like maiden? Frosty, untouchable ice queen? Baby-voiced, empty-headed bimbo?
Perhaps no members of the fair sex have been held up to such scrutiny as the fair-haired, especially where Hollywood is concerned. If we’re to believe the movies, blondes not only have more fun, they’re more sexy, more virtuous and more successful–often all at once–than their brunette or red-headed cousins. Vampy Jean Harlow, sex kitten Marilyn Monroe, ultra-sophisticate Grace Kelly…platinum icons, all, exuding a sexiness both sensual and chaste, provocative yet unattainable, profoundly fascinating, entirely feminine.
Things haven’t changed too much over the years. Whether it’s a chilly Michelle Pfeiffer or cute Meg Ryan, a tough-as-nails Sharon Stone or ambitious Madonna, the world continues to be fascinated by blondes of all types.
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| Bridget Bardot |
In honor of the latest movie-about-a-blonde to hit the big screen, Legally Blonde (starring goldilocks Reese Witherspoon as a perky, pampered ditz who follows her boyfriend to Harvard), we take a look at our favorite old-Hollywood blondes–and the flaxen-haired stars who could pass as their modern-day counterparts.
See our favorite Hollywood blondes, past and present
