Who is she?

 

Okay, third question: would you hit that?

1. Jean Harlow?

   Posted by harleycowboy58       03/17/2013  at  05:38 PM  



2. That’s Aunt Bea...Francis Bavier

   Posted by Smitty       03/17/2013  at  11:08 PM  



3. Nice Job Smitty. You win a free lifetime membership to BMEW’S. Enjoy
    

   Posted by Rich K       03/18/2013  at  12:14 AM  



4. Well done Christopher.
   Questions.
   1) What in the world made you think of her? Not a household name after all. I would never have guessed.

   2) OK Smitty ..... how’d you cotton on to that?  Good one.
   For more outstanding eye candy from the era, Google Angela Lansbury, 1940s. In her 20s she was a Goddess!  And even Helen Mirren early on was a looker. Funny thing about her. She always resented being told she was pretty, claimed she didn’t believe it and that it was sexist to suggest she was.  Go figure. She is also VERY left.
   Age sure does suck and have it’s way with us.

   Posted by peiper       03/18/2013  at  06:40 AM  



5. today’s image search engines make this task pretty easy. Oh, and I think Vilmar ran the same image a few weeks ago. Or Theo.

   Posted by Drew458       03/18/2013  at  06:42 AM  



6. I thought it was Audrey Meadows (Jackie Gleason’s wife on “The Honeymooners” Guess not.

   BTW, If you want to see Helen Mirren at her best, look for an old movie “Age of Consent”. Not bad as Morgan le Fay in “Excalibur” either.

   Posted by JimS       03/18/2013  at  09:51 AM  



7. http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/celebrities/ss/Young-Frances-Bavier-Aunt-Bea.htm

   not Aunt Bea.

   Posted by Steve_in_CA       03/18/2013  at  10:15 AM  



8. Busted - Steve got this.  It is Gloria De Haven

   Here is some more detail. http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2013/02/aunt-bee-or-not-aunt-bee.html

   Posted by Wes       03/18/2013  at  10:38 AM  



9. Aint it great, the internet make liars out of us all eventually.
   

   Posted by Rich K       03/18/2013  at  03:09 PM  



10. JimS, yeah. I thought it was her or her look alike sister but couldn’t think of the name.

    Posted by peiper       03/19/2013  at  06:11 AM  



11. Steve, thanks and well done. And thanks also Wes.

    Wife and I looked at that photo and had doubts about Aunt Bea, but just could not place the lady. Like JimS, I thought it could have been one of the Meadows sisters.  But to now learn it was Gloria De Haven. !!  Wow. That is a big surprise.

    Posted by peiper       03/19/2013  at  06:23 AM  



12. I also want to thank all of you. This was sent to me in an email from an old high school friend. (No peiper, I didn’t think of it.) He expressed some doubts. There are some superficial resemblances, but I also had doubts. So I posted it here, and got an answer.

    My first clue was searching Wikipedia for ‘Francis Bavier. No hits. Obviously. ‘Francis’ is the male version of the name. Looking up ‘Frances Bavier’ got her bio. Smitty got taken by someone who couldn’t spell.

    Wes posted a link that actually has an early pic of ‘Aunt Bee.’ Yes, she was cute. I’m a sucker for ‘cute’ over ‘sexy’.

    Posted by Christopher       03/19/2013  at  03:55 PM  



13. cute over sexy?  you mean a lady can’t be both? for some tho, cute is sexy.

    Posted by peiper       03/20/2013  at  04:57 AM  

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