There's a joke in France I heard about two grandmothers in the park reminiscing about their youth. One grandmother told the other, "Do you remember how we always wanted to look like Brigitte Bardot? Well. here we are now!"
Faye Dunaway
This multi-award winning actress is 75 years old now. She rose to fame in 1967 for portraying the role of Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow’s partner in crime, in the landmark gangster film Bonnie and Clyde. She continued to have a successful acting career in the 70s with films like Chinatown and The Towering Inferno. Dunaway still continues acting today with her recent return to the screen in the 2016 horror-thriller The Bye Bye Man.
Ann-Margret
This singer and actress is also 75 years old this year. She rose to fame in the early 60’s for her roles in the films Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas. As per her singing career, she was billed as a female version of Elvis Presley. She continues to make music today, with an acclaimed Gospel album in 2001. She still dabbles in acting winning her first Emmy award in 2010 for her guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Sophia Loren
Age 81 now, Sophia Loren used to be a stunning Italian film actress during the 50s and 60s. She won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 for the Italian film Two Women. She is declared by the Academy as “one of the world cinema’s treasures”. Loren continues to act in Italy and is rumored to have a film comeback this year.
Brigitte Bardot
Also 81 years old now, Brigitte Bardot, the French actress, singer, fashion icon, and sex symbol rose to fame during the 50s and 60s as well. She’s became an icon in French Film cinema, having been declared the “first and most liberated woman of post-war France”. She starred in controversially liberating films like And God Created Woman and Contempt. She is now retired from acting since 1973 and has become an animal rights activist.
Ursula Andress
Another sex symbol from the 60’s, 80 year old Ursula Andress used to to be a model in her hometown of Switzerland and had even briefly dated film icon James Dean. She became famous worldwide in 1962 when she became the first ever and quintessential Bond Girl. She played Honey Ryder in the first Bond film Dr No. Her appearance in the film by emerging out from the water wearing nothing but a white bikini and bra became an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history. Since the beginning of the 90’s, her acting appearances have been rare. Her last role to date was playing Madonna a low-budget 2005 Swiss film The Bird Preachers.
Diana Rigg
You might probably know her now as the grandmother of Margaery Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell, in Game of Thrones. The 77-year old actress started her long successful acting career since the 50’s. She played Emma Peel in the 60’s TV series The Avengers and has even played a Bond girl, the only wife and first true love of James Bond, Teresa di Vicenzo in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959, she debuted on Broadway in 1971 in the production of Abelard & Heloise. She’s won a BAFTA, a Tony, an Emmy, and has been nominated several times for other awards. This Dame Commander of the British Empire used to be the bombshell back then. It may be tough to see at first with Olenna Tyrell's headdress to end all headdresses, but when you put a present-day Natalie Dormer (the actress playing the grand-daughter of Rigg’s character in GoT) and compare it with a picture of a younger Diana Riggs, then you will notice the striking resemblance. Here she was on the 1969 Bond film.
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