Mink and Pearls

Vivian Blaine feigns offended virtue, shocked that her sugar daddy could think that she would succumb to bribery. She rejects the expensive presents, casting them off, and is joined by the lovely ladies of the chorus, the Goldwyn Girls, who frolic in their underwear. From the film Guys and Dolls 1955. www.amazon.com/dp/B0061EATZ0

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• 'Vivian
• Blaine'
• 'Goldwyn'
• Girls
• song
• dance
• 'Guys
• and
• Dolls'
• 1955
• film
• strip
• lingerie
• corsets

[singlaughishishstep]

@JimBeattie did you ever think that someones size could be because of a medical condition? i take medicine that makes me lose alot of wheight and thats why i look like a "stick". an old friend of mine took medicine that had a side effect that made her gain wheight. and even if it doesnt have to do wih anyhing medical, its still wrong that you just put down different body types.

[JimBeattie]

@singlaughishishstep

I didn't mean to criticise people because of their body shape - it takes all shapes and sizes to make a world, and I understand that some lovely girls are the shape they are because of their medical condition or they're just made that way.

My comments referred to today's fashion industry, which encourages young women to become unhealthily thin through unnatural dieting; and the fast food industry, which promotes obesity.

[okilloran]

That is my Aunt Jean on the far left at 3:00 in...dark hair with a "widow's peak." She was beautiful! I wish there had been more footage of her! She was married to Marc Platt, a well-known dancer in several Rita Hayworth movies (e.g., Down to Earth, Tonight and Every Night).

[JimBeattie]

@okilloran

I'm glad you spotted her, it must be a priviledge to be related to such beautiful and talented ladies.  Do you look like her and can you dance as well?

[annie2768]

The lead blond dancer in red was my Mother. Her measurements at the time were 36x25x35. She weighed 138, and was 5'9". Through her entire incredible life she only ever wore a size 12. It was all in the way she was built. Thank you Jim for appreciating Real women!

[JimBeattie]

Well, they were REAL women.  Not like the anorexic stick insects of today's fashion or the obese apple shaped women you see in the streets.

These ladies had waists and a classy chasis!

[jordtas]

@JimBeattie I understand that we all have different preferences, and I totally respect that. I only thought that your compliment to the women in this video clip was a little lessened by your reference to other body types. This is just my opinion. At the end of the day, it is all subjective--what you or I perceive as being women "who don't care for their appearance" may be attractive woment to others.

[JimBeattie]

@jordtas

I do appreciate women of all shapes and sizes, but not those who don't care for their appearance and eat too much or misguidedly starve themselves.

[jordtas]

@JimBeattie Is it possible to appreciate and compliment these beautiful women without putting down the appearance of other women?

[okilloran]

@JimBeattie I do look like my Aunt Jean, she is my father's sister, so there is a resemblance! As far as dance talent - not at all The one year of ballet I took in elementary school proved that, lol! Jean's daughter, Donna, inherited her dad's red hair and both of her parents' dance talent, she took dance classes for years, although she never pursued dance as a career.

[TheStrawdragon]

i have a dance and im ms adelaine and that looked reaally weird