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December 09, 2008
20 Favorite Actresses
Just when I thought I was safe from memes and blog-a-thons, Nathaniel R. drags me back in. Here are a twenty actresses I will see in virtually anything they're in. Several are Thai actresses that aren't well known outside of Thailand, at least for now. Nathaniel wants me to tag five people so I hereby name The Self-Styled Siren (when she regains her health), Filmbrain, Flickhead, CineBeats, and CelineJulie to contribute if they are too busy saving the world, catching up with the Murnau-Borzage box, or something of greater value.
Maggie Chueng
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Anita Mui
Miss Barbara Stanwyck
Bette
Natalie Wood
Ayako Wakao
Halle Berry
Ava Gardner
Brigitte Lin
Shu Qi
Julie Christie
Nong Toom
Lena Christensen
Tuesday Weld
Moon Sori
Rita Moreno
Marsha Wattanapanich
Romy Schneider
Janet Leigh
Posted by Peter Nellhaus at December 9, 2008 12:45 AM
Comments
Love this list! Especially the addition of "Miss" onto Stanwyck's name.
Posted by: Catherine at December 9, 2008 05:41 AM
Thanks for the invitation, Peter. My 20 are up:
http://flickhead.blogspot.com/2008/12/let-me-die-woman.html
Posted by: Flickhead at December 9, 2008 06:52 AM
I love Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Halle Berry, Brigitte Lin, and Moon Sori very much. I’m glad you like them, too. I will try to do my own list soon.
I hadn’t heard the name “Ayako Wakao” before. So I checked her profile and found that I saw only one of her films—GION FESTIVAL MUSIC (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi).
Posted by: Celinejulie at December 9, 2008 08:56 AM
My top 20 actresses are up, though some images in my post don't show properly. You may need to click some links in my post to see some images. I had a great fun doing this list. Thank you very much.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-20-favorite-actresses.html
Posted by: Celinejulie at December 9, 2008 12:08 PM
Peter, thanks for including the Thai actresses. This is an area I'm wholly unfamiliar with. And double thanks for remembering Rita Moreno!!
Posted by: Flickhead at December 9, 2008 01:51 PM
Curse you Peter! These damn meme things are going to be the death of me. Only twenty?!?! Good grief... I'm giving myself a headache already.
I think we might have some crossovers here since I can't imagine leaving Natalie, Julie or Ava off my own list. I love Rita and Maggie too. I'm not very familiar with some of the Thai actresses you posted, but you've got me curious about them now and may I be the first one to say that the pic of Janet Leigh you posted is incredible!!
Posted by: Kimberly at December 9, 2008 02:34 PM
That picture of Anita Mui makes my heart feel heavy.
Posted by: ARBOGAST at December 9, 2008 03:30 PM
Great list! Especially the many Thai names.
Posted by: Lefty at December 16, 2008 05:05 AM
wow, natalie wood had such a fine ass!
Posted by: pete krohn at March 31, 2009 10:37 PM