Broads: let's list them

Jean Smart seems like a broad.

Jean Smart's character on Hacks is a broad. Jean Smart is not a broad.

You're so lucky to know her, R2.

Paula Deen

Lindzabelle, and she has the fatty liver and stretch marks to prove it!

He doesn't have enough humour or enough toughness to be a broad.

He's a weak, drunken cunt.

Suzanne Pleshette

Rosalind Russell

DON’T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS!

Mary Boland, Marjorie Rambeau (at least their screen personas), Ethel Merman, Suzanne Pleshette.

R4- She belongs in the thread titled-

CONFEDERATE CLOWNS 🤡- Let’s List Them

All women I can picture sharing a few beers with the guys at the Friday night poker game. If I repeat any already mentioned, it’s just me agreeing. In no particular order:

Rosalind Russell

Ruth Roman

Amanda Blake

Carole Lombard

Linda Darnell

Sharon Gless

Ava Gardner

Ethel Merman

Shelley Winters

Suzanne Pleshette

Thelma Ritter

Liza Minnelli

Shirley Booth

Vivian Vance

Totie Fields

Sophie Tucker

Rita Moreno

Constance Ford

Kaye Ballard

Eve Arden, the queen of Broads everywhere.

Barbara Stanwyck

Susan Hayward

Just saw a Batman episode (they're running a binge on the Catchy channel), and imagine my surprise to see a young-ish Shelley Winters playing the leader of a convict gang and smoking a cigar!

Yup -- she was a real broad.

Miss Angie Dickinson

Clip: Johnny Carson Teaches Card Tricks to Angie Dickinson on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Rose Marie

Pat Carroll

I would never think of Rosalind Russell or Eve Arden as broads. But to each his own.

Veda Ann Borg

"Maybe I'd better send for a beer... you know, they're full of vitamins!"

Stella Adler

Mae West

Constance Ford

Beverly D'Angelo

Ellen Barkin

Yvonne DeCarlo

Bea Arthur

Jo Anne Worley

BTW, she's 87!

Tyne Daly

Sheree North

Scientology has always been full of them, for God knows what reason. Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Michelle Stafford... Definitely a "type".

Mary Wickes.

Susan Tyrell

Liz Renay

Anita Morris

Cher. Diahann Carroll. Maggie Smith.

Julie London

Cher is not now, nor will ever be, a "broad."

Turn in your gay card.

Tallulah Bankhead

Marlena Dietrich

Bette Midler

Debbie Reynolds

Elizabeth Taylor

Janice Paige

Madeline Kahn

Terri Garr

Whoopie Goldberg

Elaine Stritch

What? No ELAINE STRITCH?

R41 Look up

Charlotte Greenwood

Friends call me Betty...

I was going to say Constance Ford too.

The stars of The Mothers-in-Law, Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. And you can add their husbands, Roger C Carmel and Herb Rudley, too.

Imogene Coca

Marie “The Body” MacDonald

What about ME?

r48 I just read her Wiki page. Wild!!

Queen Broad of the Trump administration: Jeanine Pirro

Princess: Maria Bartiromo

Ladies in waiting:

Marge Greene

Nancy Mace

Lauren Boebert

Virginia Foxx

All Trump wives, girlfriends and female offspring

Pam Bondi

Kristi Noem

Laura Loomer

Alina Habba

Karoline Leavitt

R51 No broads there.

Broads are friendly and always willing to help. They believe in live and let live. They believe in equality for all. They want full rights for LGBTQ people. They don’t suffer fools, so they don’t tolerate bigots, xenophobes, misogynists or MAGA. They don’t pretend to be Christians when they don’t know what that means and they certainly don’t judge.

Source? Me. 63 year old broad.

Lindsey is most certainly not a broad. They are a faded Southern belle, like Blanche Dubois or the narrator of "Something Cool"

Jane Withers

is a BROAD the same as a DAME?

Darlene Conley

Mrs. Oleson on Little House On The Prairie

R57 Katherine MacGregor, nicknamed Scottie. And yes, from everything I’ve read about her Scottie was a broad.

Marie Dressler, Barbara Bush

Ellen Barkin OWNS this thread.

Kathleen Turner, Alliison Janney

Are they broad where a broad should be broad?

They even have their own museum!

here is their home

I love DL

R32, I wouldn’t have thought of Sheree North, but I wholeheartedly agree. She just seemed like a broad - ready for fun, kind of unfazable in a seen-it-all-but not wholly jaded way. I thought she was perfect for Lou Grant. MTM blew it by not developing her character after the holes in the female cast left by Rhoda’s and Phyllis’s departures.

I didn’t know Sophie looked that good.

Marie Windsor

r55, dame is a term used by the vulgar for any woman. Broad is an insulting term used by the vulgar for women they consider unchaste.

Lauren Bacall

Mayo Methot

Claire Trevor

Reta Shaw

In honor of R66

Cloris Leachman

Valerie Harper

I think they fit.

So what's the difference between a "dame" and a "broad"?

And how do they both differ from a "battleaxe"?

Also - two more classic broads from Hollywood's golden age:

Joan Blondell - perhaps the queen of all broads

Ann Sothern - in the "Maisie" movies

Agree with Joan Blondell, don't know Ann Sothern well enough to comment.

What about Ann Sheridan? What little I know seems to qualify. She had those "sleepy, just woke up from a satisfying fuck" eyes.

rhea perlman

Anne Miller? Liza? Kitty Hart (of all people but she seemed broadlike to me in the 80s when I worked with her)

Jane Dulo

Peggy Cass

Jeff Donnell

Eddie Izzard

Varla Jean Merman, The Lady Bunny

Pat Ast, Sylvia Miles, Bella Abzug, Daphne in Some Like it Hot

Katherine being a broad r58

Have you ever been abroad?

Shelley Fucking Winters

In her later years when asked to bring a headshot and resume to an audition (of which she was pissed she had to audition) she walked in and pulled out an Oscar and said "Here's my fucking headshot, she pulled her 2nd Oscar out and said "and here is my fucking resume".

Gena Rowlands.

Faith Dane, the original Mazzepa on Broadway and in the movie.

And perennial mayoral candidate in Washington, DC.

The Shelley Winters story reminds me of a Jo Van Fleet stroy told in a book I read about the women in Tennesse Williams's life.

Supposedly she would lug her Oscar around in a bag, wherever it was that she lived in Manhattan, and when paying with a credit card --you used to be asked for an ID--she would pull the Oscar out and put it on the counter.

(That makes me feel old---remember when you got asked for ID when paying with a credit card?)

Kim Kardashian

Renee Zellweger (or, just a really good actress that can play them well)

Lucille Ball & mini me Debra Messing

Judy Garland

Whit Whit

Margaret Cho

Awkwafina

Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson (BROAD! city! Hello)

Gayle King's a broad

Ice T's wife Coco Austin is a broad

Nancy Sinatra

Gladys George

Ann Sheridan

Rosemary Clooney

I’m too lazy to read everything listed above so I won’t. If anyone Kate Smith belting “God Bless America” then good choice.

This is like The Match Game.

If anyone BLANKED Kate Smith belting "God Bless America"...

To R51-Not broads, but Fucking CUNTS. All of them!!

Rita Moreno

R96 Speaking of Match Game-

Brett Somers

Fannie Flagg

Marcia Wallace

3 Broads, 3

R96 Told you I was lazy. Sloppy, too.

Pamela Anderson

Pearl Bailey

Maude Finley of Tuckahoe, NY.

These have probably all been mentioned but...

Jaye P. Morgan

Ethel Merman

Barbara Pepper

Martha Raye

Nancy Walker

Thelma Ritter

Gwen Verdon

The McGuire Sisiters

The Andrews Sisters

IDA LUPINO

Shirley Maclaine

The ever fascinating Gloria Grahame.

A story from the big war bond buying shows during World War II. On one tour the stars included Merle Oberon and several comedians including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. Turns out that the elegant, sophisticated Merle loved "baggy pants" comics and would get dressed to the teeth and have them accompany her to meals. Loved seeing the looks on people's faces when they made their entrance. I nominate Merle to broad hood.

Barbara Stanwyck

Ava Gardner

Dorothy Malone

Eleanor Parker

Anne Bancroft

Angelica Houston

Anita Bryant, mother of R4.

Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel’s gf and courier. And conveniently out of town when he was gunned down.

Countess Dorothy DiFrasso, American cash countess to an Italian noble in an open marriage. Both had affairs, one of her most notable projects was the resurrection of an early 1930’s partied-out Gary Cooper. She later had a thing with Siegel. A noted Facist. Found dead in a sleeper wearing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry on the Union Pacific’s Los Angeles Limited en route to Pomona by Clifton Webb who was traveling with her.

Maureen O'Hara

Big Ang Raiola

Jennifer Coolidge

The definition of broad here is...pretty broad.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing r117

As with porn, I can't exactly define a broad, but I know one when I see one.

Big Rosie Greenbaum

The current Encores! production of "Wonderful Town" (its second) got terrible reviews, with one critic noting that the actress playing Ruth (the Rosalind Russell role) is very talented but isn't "a broad" and that Ruth needs to be a broad.

Gayle King is a dumb broad.

Hope Emerson - the biggest Broad of them all - just get a load of those mammary glands!

Norfolk is full of them.

[quote]Hope Emerson - the biggest Broad of them all - just get a load of those mammary glands!

Seen here with Eleanor Parker in Hope's greatest role, as the corrupt prison matron in "Caged."

Mrs. Biedermeyer

Lorraine Bracco.

Florence Jean Castleberry!

Debbie Allen

Linda Lavin

Joy Behar

Rosalind Russell

While there are always exceptions, I feel broads tend not to be the most beautiful woman in the room.

Anna Kendrick

Busy Phillips

Carrie Coon

Carrie Fisher

Jennifer Lawrence

Kate Winslet

Katy Perry

Niecy Nash

Salma Hayek

Sandra Bullock

Sarah Silverman

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Why has this thread devolved into "List every woman over 30"?

I would say that almost all Real Housewives, sitcom stars and soap opera veterans are broads.

Broad: Cameron Diaz. Not a Broad: Gwyneth Paltrow.

Broad: Rachel Griffiths. Not a Broad: Nicole Kidman.

Broad: Goldie Hawn. Not a Broad: Glenn Close

(Controversial - Broads don’t have to be likeable) Broad: Blake Lively. Not a Broad: Taylor Swift.

We should play "Broad or Not a Broad"

I'd add Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep as additional modern broads. Paltrow is not a broad. She's the prissiest princess that ever prissed.

[quote]Julia Roberts

Survey Says ... NOT A BROAD!