Connie Stevens - Why?

George Peppard was pretty hot.

My lime aspic is over on the buffet,

That's Joanne Woodward,, you moron.

Then why does she look like Connie Stevens? Huh?

Don't post when you're high.

[quote]And WTF is she wearing?

Captain Von Trapp's curtains, plainly.

Joanne Woodward never had fashion sense.

The year she won Best Actress, she made her dress.

Connie Stevens seemed very nervous, why I don't know. The dress? Hey, it was 1966 that was pretty tame

Connie Stevens is a skinny American TV nobody/

Why should she pick up the award for a profound European writer?

When else would you see Joanne Woodward and Connie Stevens on the same stage?

CS…Quite nice tits….

1966 . . . The year Connie divorced hunky James Stacy and began dating future husband Eddie Fisher.

Clearly, it was fashionable in 1966 not to show up at the Oscars.

Hey, if you want to pick on the clothes, wtf is going on with George Peppard's bow tie? It looks like a little boy's costume accessory.

We know about the Bancroft Crawford thing. But I always chuckle at how it’s decided who will accept for an absent winner on the old Oscar shows. What the hell do Raphael and Stevens have in common to make her get up there and scoop up his Oscar? Other notable ones from the 60s…Bancroft herself the next year picking up Liz Taylor’s second one. Greer Garson claiming Sophia Lorens. Raquel Welch accepting for Goldie Hawn.

R14, The oddest was Alice Ghostley accepting for old friend Maggie Smith in 1970.

[quote]Joanne Woodward never had fashion sense.

That is a Travilla gown.

Woodward had made three films costumed by the designer at this point. From the Terrace, The Stripper and Signpost to Murder. They would work on one last film, WUSA.

As for Woodward making her own gown....

[quote]The gesture shocked Joan Crawford, for whom Joanne had been named. “Joanne Woodward is setting the cause of Hollywood glamor back twenty years by making her own clothes,” she fumed. “I’m almost as proud of that dress as I am my Oscar,” Joanne replied when she was told of the comments. Eight years later she presented the screenwriting Oscars while dressed in an expensive gown designed by William Travilla and declared, “I hope that it makes Joan Crawford happy.” It was Joanne’s night, though, despite her crimes against fashion.

Here are some photos of Woodward's 1958 gown.

R15 Ghostley I believe was a friend of Smith’s. They had acted together on Broadway in 1956.

Woodward could act circles around Crawford.

R16, I'll let this choice of Joanne's speak for itself.

Say what you will about Connie and Joanne's fashion choices, they were a hell of a lot more exciting than the 15 or so years that followed with the faux hippie and Malibu Barbie nonsense until Joan Rivers invented the red carpet question "Who are you wearing?"

[quote]until Joan Rivers invented the red carpet question "Who are you wearing?"

She didn't invent it. For years before that, the news papers would publish articles on which designers the presenters and nominees would be wearing. And when the ceremony became televised, journalists would sometimes ask who designed the gowns. Riveres just made it her catch phrase on a cable show.

Connie Stevens is equally as intelligent as Inger Stevens.

Connie Stevens invests her performances with the same emotional profundity as Flora Robson.

I love her hair at OP’s link.

Is that Julie Christie throwing her hands up like wtf! as baby-voiced Connie exits?

Connie obviously saw the dress in a window and couldn't resist it.

Julie Christie in slutty gold.

I didn't know I was Connie Stevens.

I love Julie in her gold pajamas. She knew she was going to win and dressed up like an Oscar. At least it worked for her. I’m wearing basic black when they finally cave in and give it me for Sunset Blvd.

[quote] I’m wearing basic black when they finally cave in and give it me for Sunset Blvd.

That, my dear, will be a shroud.

I'm old enough to remember the next day's newspaper reportage, which focused on Julie Christie's "gold pajamas".

Plus the Academy and public were a bit shocked when she showed up the next year to present in a polka dot mini skirt. Kind of like today, the stupid shit people get their feathers ruffled over.

Craig Stevens' gown outshone both Joanne and Connie's ensemble.

LOVE Connie Stevens. Can't understand why she's fingering herself in this photo but I LOVE Connie Stevens.

R34, Is that a still from "The Sex Symbol"?

Ding ding ding R35. We have a winner.

[quote]Can't understand why she's fingering herself in this photo

Her meaty tucked popped.