Did bimbo roles exist in film before Jayne Mansfield and Rita Marlowe? I know dumb blondes go pretty far back, but it's not exactly the same thing. Neither is the "blonde bombshell" character. I mean bawdy and brazen sexually confident women who are over the top, unintelligent, and love love and sex. Was there anything like that pre-Mansfield? Or immediately post?
I've seen anons suggest that the bimbo archetype was popularized by 80s sex comedies, which doesn't seem far-fetched, but if this movie and Jayne's entire public persona are anything to go by there had to be at least a few significant precursors.
Blonde shiksa archetype is an old one.
Mae West ?
Mae west was witty, so no.
Not unintelligent or that exaggerated, just unashamed and loose. She's more like Blanche from The Golden Girls. I watched Kim Novak in Kiss Me, Stupid yesterday and character wasn't exactly unintelligent but a pretty good example. And speaking of pre-Mansfield maybe I should've been talking about Judy Holliday instead... Born Yesterday came out in 1950. But Billie was slightly more "dumb blonde" than bimbo.
having big breasts was not considered a good thing. it was a sign of obesity and degeneracy. white women were supposed to look slim and petite.
breasts were always considered to be something that only men with mental moronation were obsessing over. basically you never grew up. which let's be honest is true. only children obsess over bags of sand. real men prefer curves. ass. Hollywood didn't realize that until last decade and it was only because of black culture.
I'm not even a breasts man
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Ugly woman or man pretending to be a woman.
Which one are you?
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so bimboanon, who is your favorite?
Not him, but as a fellow bimbo enjoyer:
Daniela Katzenberger ca. 2012.
Hmm never heard of her.
Theyre not really my thing, except for Misty Knights back in the day, and Candy Charms before her nose job(s).
Eh, that's alright, she's a german tv personality. When it comes to the classics, I do love Lolo Ferrari.
The hard beachball breasts dont do anything for me. Never been into her or similar like Chelsea Charms, Beshine
That's a shame. Hard beachball breasts are one of my favourite things about bimbos. Really fun to play with, too.
My favorite bimbo in general, or my favorite of the bimbo characters/actresses I've found? I've honestly become kind of obsessed with Jayne Mansfield but her career is frustrating, to say the least. She got a lot of shit roles even though she actually could act and it seems like in at least a quarter of her filmography her voice is dubbed over by Carolyn De Fonseca, for no fricking reason. And her movies are very hard to find too. She was so fun and interesting, I wish she was more talked about on this board and in general. She blows Marilyn out of the water.
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It's pretty rare since she was usually seen with dogs
She was moronic for marrying that weight-lifter/bodybuilder and then the two of them insisting on doing things together. Just a completely brain-dead move that undoubtedly harmed her career.
>Just a completely brain-dead move that undoubtedly harmed her career.
That and the fact she was pregnant A LOT. She was actually supposed to play that Kim Novak role in Kiss Me, Stupid but had to back out cause she was pregnant with Mariska. It sucks, but she was also very in love with him.
>In 1967, Mansfield was in Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club. After two appearances on the evening of June 28, Mansfield, Sam Brody (her attorney and companion), their driver Ronnie Harrison (age 20), and three of her children – Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska – left Biloxi after midnight in a 1966 Buick Electra 225. At about 2:25 a.m. on June 29, on U.S. Highway 90, 1 mile west of the Rigolets Bridge, the Buick crashed at high speed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed behind a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The three adults in the front seat died instantly. The children, asleep in the rear seat, survived with minor injuries.
>Reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma.[314] This urban legend started with the appearance in police photographs of the crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. However, Mansfield's death certificate, which states her immediate cause of death to be "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain," rules this out. The identity of the head-like shape has not been definitively determined, but it is debated to have been either a wig that Mansfield was wearing or carrying, the top portion of her real hair and scalp, or "something else entirely." After her death, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommended requiring an underride guard (a strong bar made of steel tubing) on all tractor-trailers; the trucking industry was slow to adopt this change. In America, the underride guard is sometimes known as a "Mansfield bar"
>"crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain,"
is there really that much difference between decapitation and having your skull crushed and brains squeezed out? I guess her empty head was still attached.
I used to bust nuts to Angelique all the time
That would be Mae West, OP. Who back in the day famously coined the phrase 'a hard man is good to find.' How the frick you get away with that in the Forties I dunno, but she dun did.
>How the frick you get away with that in the Forties I dunno, but she dun did.
Weren't a fair amount of Mae's movies before that and pre-code? I've only tried watching I'm No Angel but if that's anything to go by she's not what I'm looking for, her characters are too stern and intelligent rather than ditzy and outrageous.
Probably should've made this thread earlier/later. I'm too tired and don't think I can keep it up but I really am curious, if any of you know anything!
And full discretion, I haven't found any of these 80s sex comedies said to have inspired the archetype yet, I just agree that it seems plausible considering actresses like the Landers sisters and such.
>Jayne Mansfield
>Judy Holliday
>Harley Quinn
>Luanne Platter
>Peggy Bundy
>Fran Drescher
Are the best examples I can think of in regards to characterizing a "bimbo". I'm not very great when it comes to articulation or description so I can't really link them explicitly or explain what they seem to have in common. But I feel like they all fit. Maybe Barbra Eden as Jeannie too.
bump.
Bimbos don't have to only be blonde, Laverne was called a bimbo many times on her show, and she certainly had most of the characteristics.
>Bimbos don't have to only be blonde
I don't disagree, I just figured it'd be easier to find examples starting with blondes. I honestly have no idea how I'd go about finding other examples... unfortunately I haven't seen enough of Laverne & Shirley. And it doesn't seem to be streaming anywhere either. I've really been looking for stuff with characters that embody the spirit moreso than have the look. My entire argument is that bimbo is an act/personality more than it is an aesthetic.
To help your research you might want to try your luck in some boomer porn forums like breastsintops
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baby face (1933)
> I mean bawdy and brazen sexually confident women who are over the top, unintelligent, and love love and sex
would say she was all of those other than unintelligent, she was self aware and knew what she was doing