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Seriously - KAY FRANCIS: NOOOOOOOO T!TS????!!!!

posted 11 years ago by nycruise-1
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I can never get over this movie: it shows a budding Kay Francis as the "vamp" - yet she/Kaye/villain sports the FLATTEST CHEST EVER filmed in Hollywood.

I know the "20s look" was "boyish" - and subsequent movies of the time reflected popular taste/culture, so a "flat" chest in 1929 was considered highly "stylish."

I just amazes me that T!T$ apparently didn't matter then - although they eventually gained a lot more "respect" in the ensuing decades.

Kay was a FANTASTIC ACTRESS - but I can only surmise that her career ending at the end of the 1930s was due to the fact that other actresses had more T!TS.

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"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"

[–] Molly-31 10 years ago

Ironic that. She died of breast cancer. Anyway, the decline of Kay's film career did partly have to do with her looks, but not the way you think; it was because she was considered sexy and beautiful. She was way ahead of her time. If you want to know what really happened to Kay, read this.

http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/09/04/kayriffic-biographer-scott-obrien- on-kay-francis/

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[–] montgomerydou55 9 years ago

Sexy and beautiful?! Forget it! She looks like she should have been tied to a post in a cornfield!

[–] Molly-31 9 years ago

Different eras have different standards of beauty.

Miss Jean Louise? Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.

[–] boxerrebellion 9 years ago

Ok, besides the offensive middle school boy timber of your post...

Women who did have breasts of any size minimized them by taping themselves flat (think a girdle for the chest). Many of these women found decades later that this had caused tissue damage resulting in much more than normal 'drooping'.

[–] montgomerydou55 8 years ago

Pennywise and poundfoolish.

[–] scotpens 8 years ago

Ok, besides the offensive middle school boy timber of your post...

I assume you mean "timbre." Timber is what lumberjacks yell when a tree is about to fall.

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[–] snsurone 8 years ago

Idiot!
Kay's career faltered when newcomer Bette Davis arrived and eventually surpassed Kay as Warners' top female star.