#hotvintagepoll

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Propaganda

Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees)—no propaganda submitted

Toshiro Mifune (Rashumon, Seven Samurai, Grand Prix, Stray Dog)—no propaganda submitted beyond this video and the photos under the cut

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut]

[kelpiegry-art]

I made little portraits of me and my best friends' favourite song and dance funny men as christmas presents!

I also made these little prize ribbons to go along with them:

...If I made them now I’d have given them all a prize for losing round 2 of @hotvintagepoll

[gluecookie]

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If Eartha goes out this round or the next this is how she exits into the shadow realm

[cleolinda]

The most random compliment I have ever received was when a coworker of my mom’s saw my high school senior picture on her desk: “Oh, she has the brow of Ingrid Bergman!”

25+ years later, I still have no idea why she would say this. But the woman had a brow.

[indy829]

Some propaganda for Audrey. I do think that Eartha will take the whole cake (and if she does, she deserves it), but I do always appreciate an opportunity to share Two for the Road Audrey.

The first image many have of Hepburn is what I call "Dorm Room Wall Audrey," where she's decked out in one of her resplendent Givenchy gowns or vanishing under a large exquisite Cecil Beaton hat.

However, my favorite brand of Audrey is "'60s Mod Audrey on a Roadtrip through the South of France":

Two for the Road (1967) was her second to last film in her 1953-1967 hot streak before entering semi-retirement to raise her son Sean and to recover from being married to Mel Ferrer for too long.

It was her third time being directed by Stanley Donen after Funny Face (1957) and Charade (1963) and tells the story of couple Mark and Joanna Wallace (Albert Finney and Hepburn respectively) navigating the ups and downs of their tumultuous yet passionate relationship over the course of 12 years. It's experimental in its nonsequential storytelling, transitioning frequently between different years of their relationship. Essentially, Two for the Road backpacked so Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind could run. It's also very telling that screenwriter Frederic Raphael would go on to write the screenplay for Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Donen said of directing Hepburn that of all of their collaborations, Road saw Hepburn at her most relaxed. And watching her as Joanna, one does get the sense that she hadn't been so unguarded and comfortable in her own skin since Roman Holiday (1953).

Joanna may have also been the most complex role she ever had the chance to play. The 12-year timeline allows us to see how her naive ingenue persona slowly evolves into the world weary women she played in her later films that were getting sick and tired of men's shit.

Her fashions in the film also gave us a unique off-the-rack Audrey. Her Givenchy wardrobe was often like a suit of armor for her and alleviated her of some of the insecurities she struggled with. In Road, she allowed herself to dispose of that crutch and gave us what I feel is her best performance. The woman got to wear a skintight PVC suit and even jeans and a pair of Converse!

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[farmerbebop]

Setsuko Hara in The Idiot

Dostoevsky would vote for her in the @hotvintagepoll

[keatonkeatonkeaton]

Literally just posting this so I can submit it to the hot vintage poll 😍

[cardigan-jam]

Everybody loves Judy and you should too

Vote Judy @hotvintagepoll

[hydrateyoursharks]

Ava Gardner

photographed by Wayne Miller

1959

[realsparrowboy]

Yes I’m still upset about it and no I will not get over it, Lloyd won in my heart

[hotvintagepoll]

Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.

A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.

What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.

Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.

In order of the last round they survived—

ROUND ONE HOTTIES:

Richard Burton

Tony Curtis

Red Skelton

Keir Dullea

Jack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Robert Wagner

James Garner

James Coburn

Rex Harrison

George Chakiris

Dean Martin

Sean Connery

Tab Hunter

Howard Keel

James Mason

Steve McQueen

George Peppard

Elvis Presley

Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut

Ray Milland

Claude Rains

John Wayne

William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Harold Lloyd

Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert

Ramon Novarro

Slim Thompson

John Barrymore

Edward G. Robinson

William Powell

Leslie Howard

Peter Lawford

Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten

Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine

Spencer Tracy

Felix Bressart

Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)

Peter Lorre

Bob Hope

Paul Muni

Cornel Wilde

John Garfield

Cantinflas

Henry Fonda

Robert Mitchum

Van Johnson

José Ferrer

Robert Preston

Jack Benny

Fredric March

Gene Autry

Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas

Ray Bolger

Orson Welles

Mickey Rooney

Glenn Ford

James Cagney

ROUND TWO SWOONERS:

Dick Van Dyke

James Edwards

Sammy Davis Jr.

Alain Delon

Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford

Charlton Heston

Cesar Romero

Noble Johnson

Lex Barker

David Niven

Robert Earl Jones

Turhan Bey

Bela Lugosi

Donald O'Connor

Carman Newsome

Oscar Micheaux

Benson Fong

Clint Eastwood

Sabu Dastagir

Rex Ingram

Burt Lancaster

Paul Newman

Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire

Boris Karloff

Gilbert Roland

Peter Cushing

Frank Sinatra

Harold Nicholas

Guy Madison

Danny Kaye

John Carradine

Ricardo Montalbán

Bing Crosby

ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:

Marlon Brando

Anthony Perkins

Michael Redgrave

Gary Cooper

Conrad Veidt

Ronald Colman

Rock Hudson

Basil Rathbone

Laurence Olivier

Christopher Plummer

Johnny Weismuller

Clark Gable

Fernando Lamas

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Humphrey Bogart

ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:

James Dean

Cary Grant

Gregory Peck

Sessue Hayakawa

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:

Jeremy Brett

Vincent Price

James Shigeta

Buster Keaton

SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:

Omar Sharif

Paul Robeson

FINALIST FANTASIES:

Sidney Poitier

Toshiro Mifune

and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.

[anyagee]

Because I like funny numbers (Blaseball I miss you) and whatever is happening over at @hotvintagepoll in the Paul Newman vs Christopher Plummer poll is hilarious, I had to take a look at the number of votes and it's so fucking funny. Most of the polls have like 5,000 votes. We're (as of about 7 pm est) at more than three times that many. Help.

Vote counts:

3,714 Bogart vs Crosby

3,471 Power vs Montalbán

2,936 Flynn vs Carradine

3,648 Lamas vs Kaye

3,331 Nicholas vs Gable vs Madison

5,931 Falk vs Sinatra

5,915 Kelly vs Cushing

2,793 Stewart vs Roland

5,295 Astaire vs Weismuller vs Karloff

5,355 Belafonte vs Clift

16,790 Newman vs Plummer

7,347 Lancaster vs Mifune

3,293 Olivier vs Ingram

3,387 Rathbone vs Dastagir

5,358 Eastwood vs Hudson

2,983 Coleman vs Fong

3,920 Veidt vs Micheaux

2,945 Cooper vs Newsome

11,656 O'Connor vs Price

5,411 Bey vs Lugosi vs Redgrave

4,149 Hayakawa vs Jones

5,103 Niven vs Robeson

4,599 Peck vs Barker

4,215 Johnson vs Keaton

4,379 Romero vs Grant

5,583 Brett vs Heston

6,583 Redford vs Poitier

4,826 Shiegeta vs O'Toole

5,700 Sharif vs Delon

5,162 Davis Jr vs Dean

5,516 Edwards vs Perkins

8,087 Brando vs Van Dyke

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

Vote Myrna!!! (The poll has ended)

[cleolinda]

Just for fun, since people kept mentioning that Mattel made a Diahann Carroll doll—it was before 1970, in keeping with the @hotvintagepoll rules, but it was for a TV (not movie) character, nurse and widowed single mother Julia Baker:

NBC changed the title [of the show in development] to “Julia,” and cast young Marc Copage as Julia’s son, Corey Baker. Veteran movie and TV star Lloyd Nolan was given the role of Dr. Morton Chegley, Julia’s employer. The cast was one of the first multiracial ones in American TV history, and it featured black actors in non-servile roles. Rather than playing chauffeurs, maids, cooks, and underlings, the African-American actors in “Julia” broke new territory. Here, they were cast as doctors, professors, health care professionals, and other positions that demanded education and training.

[…]

When asked about her connection with the character, Carroll was of two minds. She acknowledged that the nurse was dreamed up by a white producer and scripted by white writers. Still, she was always proud that she literally changed the complexion of TV. “For many people, ‘Julia’ was a fantasy show. It represented a mutual respect and a friendly work atmosphere that didn’t exist in many places at that time,” Carroll said. “If our show helped to show that that was possible, I’ll take that as an accomplishment to be proud of.”

[indy829]

They're facing off against each other now in the Hot Vintage Lady poll, but I love them both equally, so here is propaganda for both that cancels the other out.

Although the two never officially met, Hepburn did speculate that she almost met Garbo in the 70s or 80s when walking around NYC.

She said, "I can take long walks, as I understand Greta Garbo does, and no one interferes with my thoughts and tranquility. Come to think of it, the other day I was on Fifth Avenue in New York and I saw a woman who could very well have been Garbo; I was a bit tempted to go up to her, but then I thought, "My God, practice what you preach! If it is her, you'll be intruding — just the thing you don't like yourself."

Goddesses know to leave each other the hell alone.

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[farmerbebop]

Setsuko Hara in Late Spring for @hotvintagepoll

Additional propaganda: Shakespeare wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" for her.