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@Yetos,
What's the point of giving easy ones? That's too big an area Yetos. You have to narrow it done. I think the jaw is northern too. Lot's of northerners also have that hair.
oh uh....was way off :ashamed2: :innocent::embarassed:English and Spanish? 1/2 and 1/2?
The original pictures are of Lyda Borelli, an Italian silent film actress from Liguria.
They obviously loved her: they even did sculptures of her.
Another very famous Italian beauty from a somewhat overlapping period was Lina Cavalieri, an operatic soprano from central Italy, Lazio. She was considered the most beautiful woman in the world, the reincarnation of Venus. I think they have some features in common, but Cavalieri looks more "Mediterranean" to me, although perhaps largely because of her slightly darker coloring. I think she's more beautiful, personally.
It's so gross: they made what they called "boudoir" cards of her!
She continues to fascinate: 360 plates were made of her face:
There are very few recordings of her...I hope someone invests the time and money to fix them so her voice can shine through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBnGECvlnh0
Ah, Lina Cavalieri was a marvel, definitely one of the most harmonious and classic faces of the last century. Totally "unfaked" beauty. (Venomous) gossip was that she was no talented enough to get such a high following and so many good contracts in the Opera Houses, all of them owned more to her very particular "attractions" especially to male opera fans. In any case, I think there was quite a bit of sexism in that widespread opinion: beautiful Opera singers have always been accused of being on the stage only due to their beauty or, even worse, to "special favors" - only to be widely acknowledged as great singers decades later. :-(
Lina Cavalieri, by the way, was interpreted by none else but Gina Lollobrigida in an interesting movie about her life and career, La Donna più Bella del Mondo. Gina Lollobrigida actually refused to be dubbed by a real opera singer and decided to sing the arias herself (mixed results, but claps for the daring effort).
Beautiful as Gina Lollobrigida was, it's a "harder" type of beauty, less attractive to me. There was a luminous quality to Cavalieri's skin, a softness to her face, an air of pensive, perhaps slightly melancholy, innocence mixed with sensuality which I suppose belongs to an earlier time. If I were a man, this is the kind of beauty that would haunt me.
They loved that look in her era: masses of thick, wavy hair, flawless, dewy, luminous skin, widely spaced eyes, long, graceful neck,
straight, strong nose, usually small, rose-bud mouth, slender yet womanly body.
Evelyn Nesbitt was the American version. I don't think she was as beautiful as Lina Cavalieri, but she was also an earlier version of a beautiful "poster girl", and men killed and were killed for her.
She had no talents that I know of, apart from beauty, unlike Lina Cavalieri, or Lyda Borelli, for that matter, and yes, people always say those things, women as well as men, even when it's ludicrously untrue.
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