As a 5'6" 34-25-37 weighing 113, Veronica and I may have similar measurements but different weights. I can imagine how happy you are about that. That means a gal today may have the same measurements as one of these stars, but weigh more.And, as you agreed with me, these numbers--especially dress sizes--are essentially meaningless. They wore girdles and had a different diet which explains the difference in body composition and size. Thanks for your interest, Anonymous #2. 3.6m Followers, 709 Following, 2,960 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Joan Smalls (@joansmalls) Monroe was taller than I expected. Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. If you look, you may also notice sometime that Stanwyck, a former Follies Girl, had the famous Follies walk, where she kind of "dragged" her feet as if she were always trailing a mink stole behind her. Just interesting to see them all together, especially when it comes to the variety of heights! She has been married to Paul Howson in an intimate wedding. They converted all of the dress sizes in the late 60 early 70's to the standars we now have. One of us probably looks more like Marilyn Monroe, and the other Grace Kelly! Thanks for compiling and sharing--this is fascinating! Clearly, she weighed more than 118 in much of her adulthood. Regarding the larger heads-I recall as far back as the silent era, Mary Pickford in her autobiography "Sunshine And Shadow", noting this about herself. Hi, I really appreciate this chart of starlet sizes. (There's an amusing photo from the early '60s showing Georgiana doing the twist with designer Jean Louis, who would become Loretta's last husband. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Surprising how small almost all of them were, even allowing for the general population being a little shorter than we are today. Fascinating to me that measurements are generally available for the women, but not for the men. That might be tmi, but I am very proud! I'd add a few inches onto all of Sophia Loren's, she doesn't look skinny, she looks very feminine and I'd say her hips are at least 40" which would be a UK size 14. :), Thanks Christian! You may be right there.Other actresses may have a 36" chest, though, especially if they're not petite/short. A certain kittenish sexiness was one of the desired styles in that era, along with the well-known Art Deco streamlined look. Great information Kimberly. My Aunt won a beauty contest in 1945 and weighed exactly that..great figures too. I think some of those measurements are smaller than they actually were. Maybe 5'2.Saw Raquel Welch at the same party. Understandable enough when fan magazines and Saturday matinees were the only source of information. She has won a Golden Globe Award, was nominated for three Emmy Awards and also was nominated for a Saturn Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards. That wouldn't have been considered large in 1932, at the tail end of the vogue for boyish, slim-hipped, small-breasted, sportive figures. I put this chart together more to bring these people more to life as we only see them in two dimensions on the silver screen. I am disappointed you left out Greer Garson. I was in college in the 70's and a size 7 5'4 105 35/22/35 no girdle nothing. Celebrity's personal details, bios, body measurements & statistics like their height, weight, age, bra size, eyes & hair color, religion, sexual orientation, family, etc. Perhaps it was from the PR studios? You forgot to put one of the biggest men on there, possibly the tallest, to the point they occasionally lied about his height stating he was shorter! When she died, she weighed 118, per the autopsy. As a result, she focused more on modeling than acting before marrying Ricardo Montalban. She's been listed at everything from 5'2" to 5'6"; in his Lombard bio "Screwball," Larry Swindell states she was 5'4 1/2", while Jean Garceau, longtime personal secretary for both Lombard and Clark Gable, said Carole was a mere 5'2". Celebrity Relationships, Partners, Measurements and Net Worth. Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren had .70 hip to waist ratio. Jean-Patrick has participated in rodent captures, handlings and measurements, GPS measurements and trail camera installations. We are all unique, all special, and should celebrate that. :). He's semi-crouching while twisting, accentuating the height difference between them, but even had he stood up straight she still would've towered over him.). But it's always fascinating to me to get some sense of their size, especially height when so many of these women seemed larger than life onscreen.You know, I think I always have something of an ulterior motivation to make people--particularly women--understand that we shouldn't be so attached to numbers or images that are pushed out by the media, seen in magazines, and so on. ;) Women were simply much smaller back then, as any vintage dealer will tell you. Sophia is stunningly beautiful and a perfect representative of that hourglass shape. I recently saw the Grace Kelly exhibition in PA, and was shocked that her wardrobe looked perfectly sized for me. Tristan Juette's home page. Thanks for asking. I especially imagined Greta Garbo to have been quite tall. It's a fun chart, isn't it? We are so hard on ourselves and far too often compare ourselves to fantasies that are pushed by PR folks, especially now in the age of Photoshop. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Actresses on July 27, 2020 by admin . On that note, I plan on adding a few men the next time I update the chart so we can see the ladies next to their co-stars. I live in Denmark we use kg and cm for measuerments. in an episode of I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball was crash dieting so she, a size 14, could fit into a size 12. The sizes on the stars listed here would have qualified as ultra skinny so what gives? Thank you so much for giving us this great site. She works for Hollywood Movies and American Television Series. Ex. As a 5'6" 34-25-37 weighing 113, Veronica and I may have similar measurements but different weights. Alison Doody Measurements are 34-24-34 inches and Age is 53 years. Kim Delaney Height, Weight, Measurements, Bra Size, Biography Jean-Claude Van Damme 1979 Fight Caught On Tape(he was 19 years old at that time...) Go to a vintage store you can see it. Being an avid collector of all things vintage it was great to find out I could definitely fit into a ridiculous amount of authentic antique clothing without much alteration (if any). I've seen some of her costumes up close and they are so small! Even with a corset, I cannot believe she was so slim. Though many know my influences for dressing up--hello, costume designers  Edith Head , Helen Rose , and Jean Louis , among others--I do... UPDATE: Sometimes life just takes you in a different direction. Or PR person. Thanks for sharing Kimberly. Carole Lombard's height has been a subject for debate for some time. And the youngest sister of the Young clan, Georgiana, topped out at about six feet, making her a giantess by '40s standards. She usually wore underwear, except, it's rumored, when she played opposite Clark Gable in "A Free Soul". And that weight that you mention may have been toward the beginning of her career as well. In the 60's the model Twiggy introduced the ultra skinny woman. Click here to navigate to parent product. I have been self conscious about my weight and body shape for most of my adult life; that is, until I learned I am very close in size to THE Grace Kelly. Gable commented to friends on her apparent lack of underwear.Norma was often on the Best-Dressed lists, even though in her real life she wore a lot of American sports-type clothes, and her chic was the Parisian kind, not the glamored-up Hollywood kind.Shearer, BTW, was rumored to be app 5'3", and was short-legged and long-waisted, as were many famous actresses-Stanwyck was another, Edith Head spoke of designing her dresses and suits to have a waistline which was higher in front and lower in back to lengthen her line. So many things written about Marilyn's weight. Kelly Lynch Measurements, Height, Weight, Biography, Wiki. When I was a child those women were still around the H.S. Interesting statistics! ;). You can even see the difference between 80's actresses and celebrities and the ones from now.I do not think a size 4 is exceedingly small for a woman. Cup Size: E. Thanks Second P! Interesting but dubious. Apr 29, 2018 - Explore Michael Alan Ward Sr's board "Joan O'Brien" on Pinterest. Actually that's a nice, healthy size. Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecology Phd student. My size is close to Vivien Leigh except i have flat chest only 31 lol silly me! [1] En el 2011 se convirtió en la primera modelo latinoamericana en representar la compañía de cósmeticos Estée Lauder.Además, fue la primera mujer de color en aparecer en anuncios para Chanel. There are a lot of surprises in there. Also, further information about her husband is missing. It's just the way it was! 8.9m Followers, 887 Following, 2,436 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from SARA UNDERWOOD (@saraunderwood) Jillie Joan Mack Body Measurements Joan Mack stands in 165cm or 5’5″ inches tall and weighs 100lbs or 45 pounds. I'm far from letting go of summer, but fashion magazines and stores are already showcasing some of the best trends for Fall. Being an active model and versatile actress, she occupied a unique place in acting, started her career by making a debut in a feature film A View to a Kill. ... Read biography of Joan … I'm a little fuzzled about their weight. But at the very least we can get a sense of their size and how they compared with the rest of Hollywood. Also, it's entirely possible that some of those numbers--particularly waist size--were skewed with some kind of corsetry. Was the weight system different or the same from today? Even I have to remind myself to stand up straight since I'm so much taller than the average woman (5'4") and man (5'8"). Height: 5′ 3″ (160 cm) Weight: 57 kg (126 pounds) Bra Size: 32E. And you're right to be suspicious--some numbers we know came straight from studio PR (e.g. ... 1959's  Pillow Talk  is one of the most influential movies of all time from the standpoint of style. I could wish that shape was still the vogue, as I have it from the waist down, but large-breasted and short-waisted, long-legged ("chic" and "elegant" are two of the many positive attributes I'll never possess, lol ! At her thinnest she was only 115 but that was the last year of her life. Shearer also wore the Adrian bias-cut satin gowns so often in her early films that they were known as "Norma's nightgowns". Whereas in the early (pre-Code Thirties), Norma Shearer, taking a bath while on honeymoon in the film "Private Lives", asks new hubby to hand her a "bras", slang of the day for "brassiere", which "bras" is not much more than satin ribbons attached to a bit of chiffon (no support whatsoever, not even jiggle control, more of a feminine bon-bon type garment),and little tap pants (a funny bit of business is that she asks hubby for the peach "bras", and he mistakenly hands her the pink, so when she asks for the pink underpants, he mistakenly gives her the peach, lol, a small bit of business which plays up his unfamiliarity into the mysteries of femininity). Typically I fall somewhere between a 0-2 in even numbers, and a 1-3 in odd ones. Most of her career she was between 120 and 135. Reconocida por ser icono de la moda y símbolo sexual de mediados del siglo XX.Además es activista de derechos de los animales, fundadora y presidente de la fundación que lleva su nombre. She has 38 inches over breasts, 26 inches in waist and 37 inches over hips. I think no matter their actual size, these stunning women always appear larger than life on screen. Just genetics. And you're absolutely right--one can have similar measurements and different weights. They I was like, "Oh, they're in height order... and she was hella tall..." I feel smart. Joan Smalls Rodríguez [4] (Hatillo, Puerto Rico, 11 de julio de 1988) es una modelo puertorriqueña. Not that it could have made a drastic difference, but it did make some difference in their appearance (not their actual measurements of course, but the perception of them) that they wore some heavy-duty foundation garments back then-it almost seems that the further back you go (with exceptions of course, like the Twenties and early Thirties), the more heavy-duty the foundation garments. Happy to hear you found your favorite actress, Margaret AND that you and she have such similar measurements. Joan E. Gebhardt's 15 research works with 1 citations and 29 reads, including: The Paul Revere Process The illusion was due to the talented production teams--from set designers to clever directors and cinematographers. 30990675 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited. Also look at the women in comparison to their male stars. Veronica's comment above illustrated to me just how much all numbers—sizes, measurements, or pounds are relative to frame, body mass, weight distribution, etc. I also love that she and I have literally the same measurements, minus one inch in height. Approached by a photographer, Doody took up modelling, which turned into a career in commercial modelling. In the world of business, a tripwire is any measurement which indicates that more specific measurements need to be taken, where an organization should concentrate its limited resources. The measurements do seem small, but when I went to the Victoria & Albert museum's Hollywood exhibition I was completely STUNNED by how tiny the costumes were. and are thus pretty meaningless. I recall in her 1932 film "Love Me Tonight" (co-starring the ever-charming Maurice Chevalier), in one scene where she is giving her vital statistics to a doctor, she claims (in song) that her waist is 28". Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed. The only thing I've found in a quick google search regarding her weight is that during an illness, her weight apparently dropped to a "dangerous" 110 lbs, so I don't know what that means her normal weight might have been. I saw both women's dresses from GWTW and "rebel without a cause" in museums. I think she's taller too. Plus, we then believed everything that was said to us by the studios and the stars themselves. Joanna Cassidy (born Joanna Virginia Caskey, August 2, 1945) is an American actress. But then they moved the Size 7 to a 4 to accommodate the weight problem. The date of marriage is not available. Her father, John Vernou … We had much smaller waist. Type above and press Enter to search. You're right about the changes in sizes--if you go to my Vintage Sizes & Silhouettes permanent page, you'll see this chart and a huge discussion on the evolution of sizing in women's clothing. Not sure if you saw my disclaimers galore about the list, which include: 1) These numbers were taken at various points of these stars' careers--some at very start, some at their height, and some later on. Though sizes have dramatically changed over the years (and are essentially meaningless because of it), weight is still measured just the same as always. I'm always looking up heights & stats when watching TCM & the silver screen & even modern screen does make them all appear larger than life! Jeannette McDonald was petite in height-I've seen 5'3" and 5'4" (5'3" is considered the "official" cut-off for petite height). In 1997, Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common complication of ischemic heart disease, and its presence portends adverse outcomes. Betty Grable was actually a lot tinier than she looked on film. ;), 1) Amazed at all the folks who think that 5'6 1/2" is short- (Garbo) That's well above average for an actress even today. There actually isn't a one size fits all for me. So much is discussed about our different diets today (generally, a negative, when it's brought up), but we are also very different in how active we are. (Actresses, not models!) The moment when data begins to be used to punish people is normally about 60 seconds before those being measured start looking for ways to beat the system—including falsifying data. Not that I'm saying they're iron-clad, but much of the resistance seems to come simply because they're so SMALL. Furthermore, they have not revealed anything about their children however the couple is currently living together. I was stunned to see how short Garbo was! It's true, Howard. Joan Tabor. So petite! She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). And the site carolelombard.org (independent from my carole-and-co.livejournal.com site) says she was listed at 5'5 1/2" on her driver's license; other stats there include a weight of 112, glove size 6 1/4, stocking size 9 and lingerie size 32.Loretta Young was taller than generally believed -- her relatives have told me she was between 5'6" and 5'7", but didn't reach her full height until age 21 (in 1934, meaning she literally grew up on screen!). 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