Jane Alexander - Gray is Beautiful!

You don't need to be young to be beautiful. Though she will be seventy next year, Jane Alexander, with her gray hair framing her warm face, is still one of the most beautiful - as well as one the most acomplished - actresses in this country. She's the American Helen Mirren. :-)



Alexander first became famous when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope in Washington with James Earl Jones; they both went on to star in the 1968 Broadway version and the 1970 movie version. Alexander won a Tony Award for the former performance and an Oscar nomination for the latter.

She also appeared in All the President's Men from 1976 and Kramer vs. Kramer from 1979, among other movies, but her biggest role came in 1993, when President Bill Clinton appointed her to chair the National Endowment For the Arts, which she did for four years.

149 beautiful women and I'm not done yet!

Not counting the women in the four-in-one picture I posted on Leap Day, I have now posted pictures of 149 different women on this blog. The latest look back on my favorites behind me, I now go back to the beginning of the alphabet for more lovely ladies. The next one might surprise you. :-)

The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Four: Beverly Johnson - Special Post!!

This picture of seventies supermodel Beverly Johnson, taken for Cosmopolitan magazine in 1976, is sometimes referred to as her "goddess next door" pose.



Whoa! :-D

The Beauty of Retrospect, Part Four: Birthday Girl Teri Polo

Teri Polo, my favorite actress of my own generation, turns 39 today.



And she doesn't look a day over 38. :-D

Ms. Polo will play the lead in Finnegan, a new police drama on ABC, this fall. Her character, Erin Finnegan, is a policewoman who leads a vice and organized-crime unit in the Los Angeles Police Department.