Why were filmstars from the 1930's so much better looking than the ones of today by average...

Why were filmstars from the 1930's so much better looking than the ones of today by average? What has transpired in these brief 80 years for this to occur? Most importantly, what would films be like today if classic Hollywood was still around?

Nocturnal Animals very much tries to be a Hitchcock film

>muh nostalgia
>muh rose-tinted glasses
>muh cultural cringe
>muh wrong generation

Nostalgia of what you faggot, none of us were alive in the 30s

>listening to someone who lurks /tg/

We can see those films for ourselves, and there the wonder is, my friend, there the wonder is.

Maybe there were fewer criteria to meet back then. All you had to do was look good - you didn't need to have a nice voice too.

The fact that cameras were worse back then might play into this as well. Black and white, slightly blurry photos will conceal a lot of flaws that HD color photos might capture.

A lot of early film stars were part of the hollywood dream machine where they were groomed from a young age into beautiful and carefully-controlled STARS with a micromanaged public persona and health

Nowadays stars do what the fuck they want and don't take care of themselves

Much less focus on faces, more focus on bodies. You couldn't have two stars who looked too similar. Also, there was a lot less second-guessing - if the studio chiefs, producers and directors thought you were hot, you were in, which meant that all the quirky little details of a woman's face that make her really magnetic got their due. There are a couple of stars who look interesting like this now, but most are completely unmemorable.

If classic Hollywood was around now... I shudder to think how much better American film culture would be. Art cinema and independent cinema would be better distributed as well, as its zones of the market would be more clearly defined - the brief era in which the remnants of classicism coincided with European art cinema distribution and indie productions - the 60s - was probably the peak of moviegoing diversity in the United States.

No, the voices were hotter then than now. Watch the movies, man, it's all there.

The definition of a 'flaw' was completely different.

DUDE SURVIVORSHIP BIAS LMAO

I've watched a bunch of minor movies from that time. The survival rate of crummy productions is higher than you might imagine. And even in those, the women are off the charts gorgeous.

Because they went for classy sexy instead of DUDE SEX AND SLUTS LMAO

Sex and sluts would be preferable to fat unfunny ghostbusters.

>>things people actually believe

I love films of the 1930's, it's easily my favorite decade and Lombard one of my favorite actresses.

That said, women nowadays are far more attractive, because they actually hit the gym and tone their bodies. Back in the thirties women relied purely on what god gave them, which usually wasn't much. Most of the actresses had beautiful faces but unremarkable bodies. However I do like the fact that tattoos and piercings were taboo instead of the current era where looking like a trashy whore is in vogue.

Undiluted genes

Women seemed to know how to properly apply makeup back then as well.

hairstyles too

I'm sick of all these ridiculous hairdos that scream "pay attention to me!"

What's the problem

there was no Jessica Biel in the thirties

checkmate atheists

Most of the current day pornstars are ten times better looking than any supermodels or holly wood filmstars put together

Carole Lombard was a qt. So was pic related.

I love Golden Age Hollywood. As said, they had faces then.

Pornstars are usually ugly though

Audrey Heburn aside they all looked pretty bland. Now there is more variety.

That might be true except for the fact that 90% sully their bodies with nasty-looking tattoos, and then you have the mentally ill ones that get their nethers pierced. The porn stars who worked in Italy during the nineties were just as attractive, minus the trashy body art and stripper outfits

Anyway, it's an objective fact that the best looking women are the European nude models that work for companies like Femjoy, Hegre-Art, Met-Art, MPL, etc

>the best looking women are the European nude models that work for companies like Femjoy, Hegre-Art, Met-Art, MPL, etc

Patrician

>Audrey Hepburn
>not the blandest star of the era
Shirley MacLaine had her beat for quirky 60s waifu

she made me cry in The Apartment

>sully their bodies
maximum incell

They weren't, at all.

if you don't think tattoos are gross then good for you I guess, but to me it's like a neon sign that says "I'm a filthy whore with no self-respect"

Everyone was great in that movie. Wilder had an eye for character actors. I like to watch it every holiday season

Post more vintage beauties

Tattoos and piercings on anywhere but the earlobes is disgusting.

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vile disgusting whore

She helped make shitposting possible.

Mad she was smarter and prettier than you?

Would this be acceptable in the current year?

funny, because actresses back then were much bigger sluts. just check the dating lists of the biggest stars of those decades and compare it to superstar actresses of today

I'm actually amazed that no one has posted any racist "muh pure genes" garbage in this thread yet

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a rule of thumb for drawing women's faces is that if you want to make them more attractive you subtract detail, and i think it's the same thing with the cinematography of the time. overexposing the light on women's faces was common, for instance. they were also cast more stringently for glamour and beauty.

We have HD everything. Now you can truly see the ugly, and where the ugly has been CGI'd out.

you posting here acts as the same sign for yourself

he isn't talking about their personal lives, he means their image. They dressed and acted classier in those days, regardless of what they were doing behind closed doors.

Actresses nowadays wear their promiscuity and trashiness on their sleeves like a badge of honor

yeah but at least I'm ashamed of it

what is the appeal of tattoos and piercings? if you aren't some alternative scene freak, why would you ever ruin yourself with such an atrocity?

because it's the cool thing to do right now, hopefully the fad will end soon

They weren't all Jews.

there were more jews back then

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