Great Bodies on Old Time Stars

George O'Brien - huge muscles, huge package.

Fairbanks has an ugly nose.

Burt here, and I own this thread.

Surprisingly, Buster Keaton.

Even more surprisingly, big-mouthed funny man Joe E. Brown.

Buster Keaton has great arms here.

He needed a really strong core to do the stunts he did.

r6 yes, I showed a five-minute montage of Keaton's greatest stunts and my fellow watcher commented of the clip of Keaton hanging onto the caboose rail of a streetcar, his feet at a 30 degree angle from his arms, that he was immensely strong to manage that AND pull himself in.

Fairbanks had a great body. In regular clothes he looked like an accountant but put him in tight clothes or few clothes with a wig and some facial hair and he transformed into a handsome devil. Thief of Bagdad is my favorite for just seeing his body. Glad to see I am not alone.

He was a DILF! What am I talking about? I did fuck him!

Cary Grant was always worth a swoon.

His friend Randolph thought so too....

Manly man Bill Holden.

These guys are nothing like the brahs on Instagram.

Thief has also one of the all time great production designs. That final scene with the crowds cheering and him flying away on the carpet with the caliph's daughter is one of the most magnificent in a movie.

Fairbanks also gives pride of place to his dick which is pretty prominent throughout. I assume it was so blatant that nobody in the mid twenties would dare even mention it.

Gene Kelly was, unsurprisingly, quite fit.

Any love for big boy Fatty Arbuckle ?

And of course Paul Newman, mwar.

Interesting that people are always saying Holden is too old in Sunset(pictured) and Picnic when people of the era found him totally suitable.

His somewhat older look is perfect in that while still physically handsome and charismatic these characters know time is running out and it makes the plots so much more compelling.

Though yeah he couldn't have been a schoolmate of Robertson.

Kelly is even more spectacular dressed up like Fairbanks in the dream sequence of The Pirate. (In Fairbank's costume from The Black Pirate.)

I thought Holden was too old too. I just didn't like him in Sunset. I later found out the part was written for Monty Cliff. He would have been great and believable in staying in the house. Just couldn't buy it with Holden.

[quot]He was a DILF! What am I talking about? I did fuck him!

You fucked your own father-in-law, Lucille? Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

When I was a young gay watching old movies on tv I was a fan of Charles Starrett's in Mask of Fu Manchu. The torture scene was a bit over the top for the times. This is Myrna Loy leaning over him, as I would have done if possible.

Kelley was shorter and stockier than Fairbanks. I always felt for a slim build Fairbanks had the best body and a great V shaped chest going down to the waist.

i hate the 'roided up "fit" bodies of today's gym rats, so i find most of the older stars' bodies very attractive: lean, defined, toned... beautiful! And Buster Keaton was basically Superman (the things he could do...jesus!) so of course he had a body of steel.

Here's another image from Mask of Fu Manchu, Charles Starrett & Myrna Loy.

Gary Cooper

Van Johnson had a nice bod, when he was younger

Lou Gehrig for his screen test as Tarzan. Producers deemed his thighs to be too large...”like a T-Rex” one said.

WOW for Lou Gehrig.

If I knew how to do it I would post a picture of Joel McCrea skinny dipping with Dolores Del Rio. There's also a shower scene in a locker room from some movie.

When I see him as a young man I can't help asking is this guy like the most handsome man ever? Maybe not but when you look at him he is.

This?

Woody Strode. Magnificent.

John Payne

George O'Brien - it took a lot of shrubbery to cover up his package.

Please, nobody say Kirk Douglas. Had those big, floppy tits. Ugh, don't even want to link them.

In CHAMPION (49), Kirk's fat cells on the side of his pecs are all too visible. (He plays a boxer). The same year Robert Ryan's lean, nearly 40 year-old body is much better in another boxing flick, THE SET-UP.

Ramon Navarro

Rowin' with Ramon.....

Ah yes, R15, the Gene Kelly Ass. We've had many discussions over the years about it.

R20 Clift with a “t.”

The swimming olympians --- Johnny Weismiller and Buster Crabbe....

Brando for about 5 minutes.

That's Weissmuller..... My bad..

Johnny & George

Burt Lancaster

Buster Crabbe -- nice face as well. As far as B actors he was not bad - much more watchable and less wooden than a lot of the serial and B western stars.

Mr. Dinah Shore

Clint Walker.

George O' Brien.

Joel McCrea was so dreamy.

Richard Denning

john derek

Yuk Brenner.

God 'Yuk' is right. Uncut.

R50 isn't that from a Kay('I'm not a Star! I'm a woman! And I want to be fucked!')Fwancis movie?

Another John Payne, here in a skimpy suit publicity shot.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Errol Flynn.

Victor Mature bitches!

Who would you say today is as good looking and physically as charismatic as these men?

Jon(I've got you by the balls! Literally.)Hamm?

Errol did have some nice legs.

LEX BARKER as TARZAN

Burt Lancaster

They started hunky but then they declined. It was the beefcake people especially who were the fit guys, not the stars.

That said, Gilbert Roland and Ramon Novarro were a stunning couple for awhile.

Errol did not age well. I did. Well, I aged and am continuing to do so.

They edited someone out of that photo. OM!G!

Looks like an African-American got edited out.

Gordon Scott

Steve Reeves could take on any fitness star of today

Me, bitches! Thread closed!

Gene Nelson works out. That man must have been solid, lean muscle.

Brando.

More Guy Madison

This guy Aldo Ray was in some book we had about old movie stars and as a kid I used to love looking at a picture of him wearing Speedo style trunks. I can’t find the picture I remember online -there is a Speedo picture out there but the one I recall was better lit and featured more bulge.

RORY CALHOUN

Wally Cox

Here you go R73.

R75 You joke about Wally Cox, but apparently, he worked out regularly and had quite the body hidden under those oversized clothes.

"Any love for big boy Fatty Arbuckle ?"

No. Morbidly obese doesn't stir MY loins.

The dreamy Jeffrey Hunter.

The recently departed twunk Dewey Martin (and the ex-Mr. Peggy Lee).

Isn't that Brando right before his interview with Larry King?

Rod Taylor.

Guy Madison

Here's Wally Cox supposedly carrying Brando

There is a picture of the Marx Brothers showing them to be surprisingly hunky.

The 80s aren’t old time but Marc Singer had a gym bod long before it was a thing. If you look at the other hunks of that era, they all had much softer bodies.

r17 finally a contribution that would still turn heads today. Most of the other guys look like bloated weight lifters or 28 year old accountants that run twice a week.

Thanks for all the photos, boys!

I'd much rather look at these guys from yesteryears than the Instagram hos of today.

Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun were lifelong friends reputed to be lovers. Their agent, Henry Willson, supposedly spied on them rocking a car in the rain.

I haven't been able to track down any photos, but I've seen some of Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin that showed just how fit and muscular they were (in the same realm as Buster K.).

George Nader

Not exactly and old-time star, but certainly hot.

Ricardo Montalban

Wally Cox and Marlon Brando were fuckbuddies, believe it or not.

Marlon loved to pop Mr. Peepers in the pooper.

Marlon Brando could have fucked anybody he wanted to in Hollywood even the owners of the studios and he chose Wally. It's pretty nice that he found him so sweet.

For God's sake, why would Gene Kelly be "surprisingly" quite fit? Dancers are more fit than football players, as some are never tired of demonstrating whenever a flight of corps de ballet dancers are pitted against football players to test endurance and found to be superior. He also has a very balanced Mikhail Baryshnikov type body - petite, but perfect proportions, great ass, etc. His background was ballet, versus Astaire's which was ballroom and tap and the myriad influences from every kind of great show dancer that influenced him in Vaudeville and theatre. I don't like Kelly's dancing or his taste much, but he's nice to look at.

R2 An ugly nose and weak chin

A couple of years ago old man Richard Cohen of the NY Times complained about how now men were increasingly held to the same punitive standards of physical beauty as women. He had a particular hate on for Daniel Craig as Bond. He yearned for the days when Cary Grant in middle age could woo a twentysomething on screen with his charm, wit and urbanity.

Cohen just killed me. Clearly that flabby little mouth breather IDENTIFIED with Cary Grant. Cary Grant also wooed women with his height, handsome face, energy, and incredible athleticism. Only a Richard Cohen could look at a Cary Grant and not understand that on his own terms Grant is probably more physically fit and truly athletic than Craig. Of course Cohen also lacks wit and charm, but the dropping of pretense that physicality doesn't have a lot to do with it was plainly killing him, even though Grant's physical presence (and agility, and everything else) was what got him on the road to stardom.

Anyway, good to know a Cohen could watch Grant's pratfalls in Arsenic and Old Lace and not realize he was looking at an example of superior physical fitness. Hell, in Libeled Lady even weak-shouldered William Powell did his own stunts in the fishing scene, showing a flexibility and agility Cohen probably hasn't had since he was floating in amniotic fluid.

R96 Read the comment. It says Gene Kelly was UNSURPRISINGLY fit.

Mr. Sterling Hayden

R100 I always loved Sterling Hayden's body and his towering height, but something about his mouth always bothered me, like drool could start falling out of it any minute.

Sterling Hayden was the blonde who proved Gene Raymond wasn't a fluke.

[quote] Marlon Brando could have fucked anybody he wanted to in Hollywood even the owners of the studios

Yes, so may of them were known for sleeping with male stars.

Gene Kelly was so hot. I loved that little scar on his cheek, and those lashes! Just a beautiful man.

The *original* male pin-up of the silver screen- Francis X. Bushman. I think he's in his 50s in this photo, but many guys today would spend lots of effort, time and money at the gym to look that good.

R96, apologies are due from me to the original poster! So, I apologize. I scanned, Didn't read closely and missed the "un".

ulgy

[quote] Wally Cox and Marlon Brando were fuckbuddies, believe it or not.

Wally's body wasn't too bad.

I took my shirt off almost every episode for you ungrateful cunts!

Cornell Wilde

Herman Brix a.k.a. Bruce Bennett

Tab Hunter.

Legs!

Not topless, but Gilbert Roland in this photo drives me crazy, smoking hot

Gilbert Roland and Robert Stack. Bobby looks like a total bossy bottom

Charles Farrell

John Gavin.

R83 & R72 & R69 --Guy for the win!

More beefcake than actor, Ed Fury was featured in a fair amount of films in the 40s, 50s, 60s.

Hugh O'Brian

William Smith

R119 Why is Ed Fury clothed?

Marlon and Wally were more than fuckbuddies. They were good friends and lovers for a long time and Marlon was listed as Wally's next of kin when he died.

Haven't seen Van Williams menionted yet.

Van with Robert Conrad.

Steve Cochran

Working out with Robert and Van.

John Gavin. Yes, please.

In the name of diversity, Paul Robeson

R129

You want diversity ? What are you doing to get more Asians into professional football ?

I thought not !

More Clint Walker.

Wait - WHAT?

One of my favorites, Johnny Sheffield. After playing Boy in several Tarzan films, he went on to play in 12 Bomba films.

Cornel Wilde

Buster is smuggling puppies!

William Shatner in Star Trek TOS

OP My great aunt and uncle used to work for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. It was during the time he was married to Lady Sylvia Ashley. They were the live-in servants who attended to the couple's personal needs. Just like on Downton Abbey, they were responsible for helping them dress, including laying out their clothes and underwear. .. lol! .. And Fairbanks and Lady Ashley did not know my aunt and uncle were married. In order to get the jobs, they had to keep that fact secret. with them pretending to be brother and sister. Fairbanks died while they were employed at the mansion.

GREAT story R137 ! Especially the part about having to keep secret that you're married.

Buster Keaton had a great bod - pity he was so short.

Another Keaton

Another Buster

George O'Brien looks like he could be a contemporary star. The hot pic of him with the loose hair and stubble shows him in stark contrast to his co-star, who looks like his grandmother. And that body!