Historical hotties

Patricia Highsmith:

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw236314/Patricia-Highsmith

James Tiptree, Jr./Alice Sheldon

https://www.npr.org/2013/08/11/193476887/author-feminist-pioneer-the-unlikely-queen-of-sci-fi

I have quite a thing for the ladies of the silent movie era.

Maude Fealy


Lillian Gish


I think dinner with Clara Bow (and only dinner, for real) would have been a hoot


And trivia: Cartoon character Betty Boop was based on Helen Kane

Zenobia of Palmyra.

Would also kick it with Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae, but doubt I could keep up.

Eleanor of Provence - spouse of Henry III of England
https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/...6026/5986891013_9214bf84d0_z.jpg&action=click

Christopher Marlowe.

What a dish!

I forgot to mention Grace O'Malley, pirate queen of awesome.


Then there's also Neruda's squeeze, Matilde Urratia*. I think I have a thing for redheads.


*IIRC, she only had one face.

Wow, talk about an attention-grabbing thread title!

Gian LorenzoBernini, for me. Every time I see one of his self portraits I assume he would be a the lead singer in a rock band in this era. (I admit, my feelings about him may be biased by the emotion he packs into his sculpture. *fans self*)

His David could pass muster as a historical hottie, too, tbh.

Hermann Rorschach, of inkblot test fame.

shizu said:

Hermann Rorschach, of inkblot test fame.

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No fair photoshopping Brad Pitt!

There are so many, but here's a great example of forgotten WW2 hero Waverly "Woody" Woodson.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk...frican-american-soldiers-veterans-day-n682016
I can definitely see Michael B. Jordan playing him.
https://goo.gl/images/PjLshC

WWI poet Rupert Brooke

The young guy in the middle of "Bowery Mission Breadline, 1906" by Lewis Hine.
https://goo.gl/images/A59Qqh

Shame on you, he's starving!

This fine looking woman could've been a member of Destiny's Child (or Destiny's Great Great Grandmother)

Snafu, that's an amazing picture!

I *love* that woman's jacket, snafu! It's so cool--asymmetrical and with that braid on it! And her blouse underneath is lovely, too. It would look fabulous without the jacket. And her expression is wonderful, too: a little imperious.

All five of the Llewelyn Davies boys (the boys who inspired Peter Pan) were good-looking. I'm fond of these pictures of George:

http://neverpedia.com/wiki/images/8/8d/GeorgeLD-Jul1914.jpg
http://neverpedia.com/wiki/images/d/d3/GeorgeLD-drama1914.jpg

And this one of Jack (he was in the Royal Navy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Llewelyn_Davies#/media/File:JackLlewelynDavies20.jpg

And their father was a handsome man, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Llewelyn_Davies#/media/File:ArthurLlewelynDavies.jpg

J.M. Barrie, ironically, was a pretty unattractive man.

Philogene Bulart, Vicomte de Sillery

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca does it for me.

Marissa D said:

WWI poet Rupert Brooke

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Ah, Cousin Rupert! Very distant but my grandfather looked surprisingly similar (especially that brow).