Entertainment For Lively Minds
Julie Christie
Posted by JudeMaccready on 23 November 2011 - 4:46pm.
Watched Doctor Zhivago for the billionth time last night. Was there ever a more beautiful woman than Julie Christie?
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Don't Look Now
Have you seen her in that ?
*Winks*
The Go-Between
was the first film I saw her in.
A roll in the hay with Julie Christie... quite impressionable for a young lad. *sighs*
Yes
Louise Brooks
Marlene Dietrich
Grace Kelly
No disrespect, obv....
You forgot to mention
Joan Rutherford
Surely
Joan Crawford or possibly Margaret Rutherford? Um..
DOH !
I meant Margaret Rutherford
Well
You wouldn't have had any secrets from her.
Grace Kelly
probably wings it.
Honorable mentions to Ms Christie and Jane Fonda.
Interesting
How many of these have inspired a song - Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Julie Christie (twice) and I think there's one for Louise Brooks but someone's going to have to help me out with that.
Louise Brooks
OMD Pandora's Box:
She wrote a wonderful autobiography too - Lulu In Hollywood.
Oh my
I've just fallen in love again. And not with Andy McCluskey either...
Audrey Hepburn
Just that.
Oh excellent
Another excuse to post this:
Oh, and I'll take the opportuntity to post this too:
As Ronnie Corbett once said...
my point in a nutshell. Thanks.
Absolutely right,
Julie Christie swinging her handbag walking down the street in Billy Liar, blissful. She may not have been a classical beauty but she had a certain character & charm, something Grace Kelly for all beauty never had.
My mind translates that as:
Christie was sexy, Grace Kelly was only beautiful. Sexy is what gets me, looks sometimes aren't enough.
Billy Liar
Frankly, I'd have run off to Afghanistan with Julie Christie if she had asked me to in that film. Billy balks at cathching the train to London with her in favour of returning to his god-awful family, a (literally) dead-end job, and Rodney Bewes? pfft
Yep!
Everytime I get to that bit I spoil it for everyone else by screaming 'Stay on the train Billy! For fuck's sake! She's Julie Christie, you moron! Have you seen what Bradford looks like in 40 years time? Stay on the bloody train, you stupid git.'
I have the same issue
with Rear Window.
"Jimmy! Get a grip!
"Grace flaming Kelly is offering you sex on a plate and you want to spend the evening staring at your neighbours?"
yes, but
He's impotent. The broken leg is analogous (maybe).
Deflating ending
in that it makes Billy look like a small town tit, as well as putting his sexuality under severe scrutiny. She's the most gorgeous being on Earth at that time; she's funny; she's sexy and she's keen on him. What's wrong with you, man??!!
My favourite JC moment...
and if we're on the subject of more lovely blondes
as well as my dear wife (cough)
Can I remind everyone of the sex-on-a-stick that was Joan Greenwood:
http://www.silversirens.co.uk/joan-greenwood/photos.php
You have
to hear her speak for the full effect though!
Ding dong!
ooh yes
'like a cat gargling with champagne' as Alec Guinness put it
Ding and indeed Dong
Her speaking voice alone in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" just *smoulders*
Agree entirely with you
Agree entirely with you Jude. In fact so beautiful was (is) Julie Christie that we decided we would give our soon to be born daughter the middle name of Lara after watching her in Doctor Zhivago one winter afternoon in the late 90s. Sadly many people, too many in fact, only associated that name with a certain West Indies cricketer. Never mind, WE know the truth.
Natalie Wood
A sad loss
A...
fox.
Before my time
but Ava Gardner was pretty special. Warren Beatty went there as well as every other woman already mentioned.
Ursula Andress in Dr No
and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita.
But then there's Mrs Peel
Do you want her playful, masterful, or sinful?
Greta Garbo.
As pretty as the others are, surely the sultry Swede shades it.