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Famous, Notorious and Luminous Beauties: Page 6

This page is dedicated to famous, notorious and luminous beauties of the past and present.

Anita Eckberg







Sophia Loren as Cleopatra



Annie Oakley



Annie Oakley was the first American female superstar, performing as a sharpshooter for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Sitting Bull, one of her co-stars, nicknamed Annie "Little Sure Shot." She began trapping at age eight and became so proficient that she paid off the mortgage on her mother's farm in her early teens. She continued to improve her skills into her sixties.

Lillie Langtry [1853-1929]



Mrs. Lillie Langtry as Hester Grazebrook
by Oscar Wilde

It is only in the best Greek gems, on the silver coins of Syracuse, or among the marble figures of the Parthenon frieze, that one can find the ideal representation of the marvellous beauty of that face which laughed through the leaves last night as Hester Grazebrook. Pure Greek it is, with the grave low forehead, the exquisitely arched brow; the noble chiselling of the mouth, shaped as if it were the mouthpiece of an instrument of music; the supreme and splendid curve of the cheek; the augustly pillared throat which bears it all: it is Greek, because the lines which compose it are so definite and so strong, and yet so exquisitely harmonized that the effect is one of simple loveliness purely ...

Amy Johnson



Amy Johnson was a pioneering English aviator. She flew for the RAF during WWII, transporting aircraft, and died in a wartime accident. According to one account, she was shot down by friendly fire when she was unable to provide the correct codeword.

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was one of the leading early twentieth century modernists and feminists. She was sexually abused by her half-brothers, had several nervous breakdowns, and was institutionalized for a period of time, before finally committing suicide by filling her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse, where she drowned. She was bisexual or at least tentatively explored lesbian sex with the writer Vita Sackville-West. In her novel Orlando the titular hero shifts gender. She also denounced Christianity and at times seemed to border on anti-Semitism in her writing despite being married to a "penniless Jew."

Dorian Dennis, an Irving Klaw model



Leighton Meester



Vanessa Williams



Rose McGowan



Dakota Fanning



Zhang Ziyi



Phoebe Cates





Kirstie Alley



Valerie Bertinelli



Mila Kunis



Danica Patrick: NASCAR stock car driver, Formula One race car driver, IndyCar driver, and supermodel



Danica Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season.
Her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only women's victory in an IndyCar Series race.
She finished the 2008 IndyCar Series season in sixth place overall — the highest championship finish among American drivers for the 2008 season.
Her third place in the 2009 Indianapolis 500 is the highest finish there by a woman.
She finished the 2009 season fifth overall in the point standings, the highest finish by an American driver in 2009.
In 2013, she became the first female NASCAR driver to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole, turning in the fastest qualifying lap since 1990 in qualifying for the Daytona 500.
On February 24, 2013, Patrick became the first female driver to lead a green flag lap at the Daytona 500, taking the lead on lap 90.
She finished eighth in the 2013 Daytona 500, which makes her the highest placing female driver in the race's 55 year history.
In 2014, Patrick enjoyed a career-best NASCAR finish when she ran as high as third and finished seventh in the Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway.



Brooklyn Decker





Megan Fox





Megan Fox can certainly live up to her last name!

Olivia Wilde



Eliza Dushku



January Jones



Joanna Krupa



Jennifer Love Hewitt



Juliet Binoche, star of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"



Kaley Cuoco



Malin Akerman





Camilla Belle



Kate Beckinsale



Shakira



Ellen Hoog, hockey star



Corinne Clery starred in "Histoire d'O" ("The Story of O"), a movie about sexual domination and submission that was decades ahead of "Fifty Shades of Grey," and infinitely more erotic!



Myriam Fares ... is the Lebanese siren known as the "Queen of the Stage" the most luminous beauty of all time? To be sure, you can check out our pictures of her at the bottom of every page in this series.



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