I really like Heidi. She is so gorgeous which is one of the reasons I like this movie so much. When I first saw this movie, I thought she was a Nazi, until I saw her going into the woodshed with Smith. The actress who plays her, Ingrid Pitt, made a daring escape of her own, over the Berlin Wall. Whenever I watch the film, at the scene of the people running from the bus into the plane, I like to say "Don't shoot Heidi!"
shareWomen from Southern Germany are not unattractive. Must be all that clean air, fresh milk and lots of sunshine.
shareI second you here James She is fantastic looking......:)
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concur....major hottie.
The DVD extra has a little interview with her. she still looks super hot in that as well.
"all I have ever asked of my men is to follow my orders as if they were the word of god"
She also played many a HAWT vampiress!!
She is absolutely gorgeous. I cant take my eyes off of her when I watch that film. Sitting in 2010 she really makes time and space seem like major aggravation. I get that with a few other actresses from the 60s moreso than any other period.
shareIt's the great hair and makeup of the 1960s which is so hot. Of course, it wasn't very much like the 1940s when the film was set but who cares?
shareIngrid Pitt has had a somewhat eventful life- she spent three years in a Nazi concentration camp too.
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And she was born in Poland, not Germany.
"I was left in no doubt as to the severity of the hangover when the cat stamped into the room."
1940s actresses where sexy in their own way too. Very few modern actresses seem to manage that.
share1940s actresses where sexy in their own way too. Very few modern actresses seem to manage that.
Ingrid Pitt is just ravishing full stop. Funny thing about 1940s actresses...Rita Hayworth is my favorite. Just a beautiful face and body...love flowing dark hair...gorgeous eyes and a smart way of handling herself. Everything a chap could want in a woman...but even the blondes of the 40s had it. Thanks to the likes of Pamela Anderson and later the Jessica Albas of the film industry blondes have been given short shrift in my opinion...but look at Veronica Lake...she was petite with a fragile blonde beauty and probably one of the few forties actresses that could walk onscreen and come across as timeless and not from a specific period in time...yet she was still smart and very strong as a character in her films. I think the smarts that those actresses were able to convey was a product of the times they lived in...but the quality of the scripts and characterisations those young actresses were given during that era were streets ahead of the bland mannequinlike image conscious characters women are given today as an example of strong independent women. The 6Os and the 70s returned women to being the clued in creatures they are. To a lesser degree in my opinion...but unfortunately it has been lost for the last decade or so for the most part.
shareFunny thing about 1940s actresses...Rita Hayworth is my favorite. Just a beautiful face and body...love flowing dark hair...gorgeous eyes and a smart way of handling herself. Everything a chap could want in a woman...but even the blondes of the 40s had it.
Thanks to the likes of Pamela Anderson and later the Jessica Albas of the film industry blondes have been given short shrift in my opinion...
but look at Veronica Lake...she was petite with a fragile blonde beauty and probably one of the few forties actresses that could walk onscreen and come across as timeless and not from a specific period in time...yet she was still smart and very strong as a character in her films.
I think the smarts that those actresses were able to convey was a product of the times they lived in...but the quality of the scripts and characterisations those young actresses were given during that era were streets ahead of the bland mannequinlike image conscious characters women are given today as an example of strong independent women. The 6Os and the 70s returned women to being the clued in creatures they are. To a lesser degree in my opinion...but unfortunately it has been lost for the last decade or so for the most part.
Yeah the girl next doors had it too back then. Teresa Wright in Shadow Of A Doubt is another. I didnt buy her innocent naive act but I like to think that was the point. :) Yeah its a shock to realise Veronica Lake was tiny and she fell further than many of her contemporaries unfortunately but here we are seventy years later still talking about her so thats saying something. Lana Turner is another one definately. Wow. Where are all the great female film stars gone. I cant think of one I find sexy but I do admit to being a little wild for Kate Beckinsale but she does have a classic beauty look to her...she should put on a little weight though and really show herself off. She didnt shape up too badly for Godbers daughter.
shareLol, yeah Lennie Godber's daughter haha. I'd agree that she is quite nice in some roles. Obviously you saw her glammed up 1940s style in Pearl Harbor. Funny thing is that she didn't do much for me in that getup and she looks nicer as her usual self. You'd think it would be the other way around considering I like the 1940s look so much. Oh well. On the other hand Heather Graham doesn't do much for me usually but I thought she was very hot done up in late 1960s gear as Felicity Shagwell in the second Austin Powers movie.
shareTrue she did look like a period woman in Pearl Harbour however. I got the feeling that as far as the women went Bay straddled the line between realism and technicolor stylings as far as the women were concerned. Its jarring when one doesnt account for the change in what Hollywood cinema sees in terms of whats appealing in the female form. The womens wardrobe and make up was done a tad too much with period in mind and not enough with what would make the actual actresses most appealing. Scorcese on the other hand got her just right in The Aviator in my opinion. That is one of the many things that make him a much wiser director than Bay for my money. She looked much more attractive and lovely in period get up in that film.
shareI haven't seen that so I can't comment. I'll have to check it out.
By the way you got me in the mood for Veronica Lake so I watched The Blue Dahlia on You Tube yesterday. I hadn't seen that for a few years.
The Blue Dahlia is a great film. I almost watched that film again myself the other day. My favourite with Lake and Ladd is This Gun For Hire however. I just watched The African Queen on blu ray. Its boggles my mind how home viewing of older movies can just wash the decades away from those movies. If only it werent financially prohibitive to give every older film the restoration treatment...the one that really disappointed me was the DVD release of Out Of The Past. Thats a murky enough looking film as it is thanks to its beautiful noir cinematography but the DVD I bought looked only marginally better than a videotape to DVD transfer. Still a fantastic film that gets a little more play than most other films in my collection though.
shareOut Of The Past - Jane Greer - oh my!
shareIngrid Pitt is just ravishing full stop.
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Women from Southern Germany are not unattractive. Must be all that clean air, fresh milk and lots of sunshine
Ingrid was gorgeous.
At what point in the film did her character appear with Burton et al? She wasn't on the cable car but is suddenly seen on that snowplough near the airport?