Claudia's 21!

Happy Birthday, Claudia!! For Claudia of MonroeSmile whom I have known as a friend for nearly 3 years now. This video is a change of pace (it's a surprise, what else?)

I took the top 7 from your video: The 40 Most Beautiful Actresses pre-1960: Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr, Claudia Cardinale, Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney, Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh. (Of the seven only CC is still alive and making movies). But to pay tribute to your birthday and a tribute to seven fabulous legends, the best music from another legend (ironically post-1960), the Beatles "BIrthday" song works for this tribute.

Scenes from 28 movies here are:
Rita Hayworth: Pal Joey, The Lady from Shanghai, Gilda, Blood and Sand (and The Renegade Ranger in the watermark)
Hedy Lamarr: The Conspirators, Ziegfield Girl (and Ekstasy in the watermark)
Claudia Cardinale: Girl With a Suitcase, Blindfold, Austerlitz, The Queens, The Pink Panther, Upstairs and Downstairs, The Leopard
Ava Gardner - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Little Hut, The Barefoot Countessa, The Killers, Mogambo
Gene Tierney - Leave Her to Heaven, Son of Fury, Shanghai Gesture (and Sundown in the watermark)
Elizabeth Taylor - The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Girl Who Had Everything, A Place in the Sun, Elephant Walk
Vivien Leigh - Gone With The Wind, Waterloo Bridge, Anna Karenina

The watermark was done to celebrate each actress with an role before she was 23 (except Vivien Leigh) in the youth of their career. For the most part, their roles were quite memorable (Rita Hayworth in The Renegade Ranger, Hedy Lamarr in Ekstasy, Claudia Cardinale in Girl With a Suitcase, Ava Gardner in The Killers, Gene Tierney in Sundown, Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun, Viven Leigh in Waterloo Bridge).

Happy 21st, Claudia!!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rita Hayworth
• Hedy Lamarr
• Claudia Cardinale
• Ava Gardner
• Gene Tierney
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Vivien Leigh
• Beatles
• Birthday
• classic actresses
• The Last Time I Saw Paris
• The Little Hut
• The Conspirators
• Girl With a Suitcase
• Leave Her to Heaven
• A Place in the Sun

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

Absolutely fab.....some might say all my birthdays came at once.......

[cloudidogz]

@HAPPYTHELEAF Oh...then you'd get old fast :) j/k thanks for the comments!!

[gatabella3]

Very beautiful and original video, Doug! Very cool moments chosen! A couple of Hedy and Viv's close-ups just stunned me. Uggg, I haven't seen the complete film "Little Hut", I wish somebody uploaded it :)) I really love the video! Happy Birthday again, Claudia!

[cloudidogz]

@gatabella3 Yes, The Little Hut has the gorgeous salmon-colored dress Ava wears. :)

[marcello6878x]

Amazing video with some of the most gorgeous famous stars .You did a great job******

[b3witch3d]

Loves xD

[TheBigValley]

Wonderful gift is this!! Very nice idea! Congratulations for this, really!

[shane13233]

@cloudidogz That was my second guess......thanks.

[cloudidogz]

@shane13233 oh, it's at 2:07. Movie is Blindfold at 0:55 with Rock Hudson. :)

[shane13233]

@cloudidogz Yep, at 0:55.....very nice.

[thoserubyslippers]

what a gorgeous video!