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01 August 2006

Brunettes make me sweat. Who are some of the iconic raven-haired ladies of yore? →[More:] Betty Page, Clara Bow (The IT girl; at least I think she was a brunette from the B&W pics I've seen), or who? What I like about this category is that it includes women not of European descent, which is a large proportion of the hottest women who ever lived (whether you think Cleopatra was black, white, or in between, I don't think there's any doubt she was a brunette). So which brunettes are iconic?
post by: Eideteker at: 15:56 | 45 comments
Myrna Loy. Louise Brooks. Gong Li.
posted by matildaben 01 August | 16:01
Louise Brooks.

(on preview, what 'tilda said)
posted by Zack_Replica 01 August | 16:03
Clara Bow

Redhead, actually.
posted by amro 01 August | 16:07
Audrey Hepburn.
posted by Daniel Charms 01 August | 16:09
Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Baker.
posted by box 01 August | 16:11
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 August | 16:15
Joan Jett!

But only because Audrey has already been mentioned, she is the "Form of" that I think of when I think of class and beauty.
posted by fenriq 01 August | 16:16
Catherine Zeta Jones.
posted by essexjan 01 August | 16:17
Jackie O.
posted by amro 01 August | 16:18
Eartha Kitt...sigh...

And I have to second eide's mention of Betty Page.
posted by croctommy 01 August | 16:18
Tallulah Bankhead. Theda Bara.
posted by Zack_Replica 01 August | 16:20
Mona Lisa.
posted by Daniel Charms 01 August | 16:20
Dorothy Parker, who isn't iconic in that way, but in another way.
posted by Zack_Replica 01 August | 16:22
Cleopatra.
posted by fenriq 01 August | 16:30
No one's used "sultry" to describe brunettes yet, which is awesome because I'd have to hurt you. Anyone who's feeling creative can come up with another adjective to run into the ground with reference to brunettes. (Hair color commercials are particularly bad about this!)

Tura Satana!
posted by Eideteker 01 August | 16:38
Specklet, Pips, TPS and Matildaben.
posted by essexjan 01 August | 16:39
Isabelle Adjani.
posted by brujita 01 August | 16:42
Selma Hayek
posted by essexjan 01 August | 16:55
Tee hee.
posted by matildaben 01 August | 16:58
Specklet, Pips, TPS and Matildaben.

/clears throat loudly
posted by amro 01 August | 17:01
And amro!
posted by Specklet 01 August | 17:07
Aw, shucks Specklet, thanks heehee.
posted by amro 01 August | 17:13
Barbara Feldon, Jeanne Moreau in Touchez pas au Grisbi and Mats (you know the picture I'm thinking of - shooting pool at a Portland meetup where she looks like a French film star.)
posted by warbaby 01 August | 17:30
What I like about this category is that it includes women not of European descent, which is a large proportion of the hottest women who ever lived

exactly. like Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah and Sandra Oh, perhaps?
posted by jonmc 01 August | 17:35
Snow White.
posted by jrossi4r 01 August | 17:40
Raven haired is used only to refer to black hair. Brunette is the term for brown hair. I have auburn hair, I don't fit into either category, and I am certainly not a red-head.
posted by getoffmylawn 01 August | 17:45
Angelina Jolie.

& All the hot looking geeky girls that have peppered the filmic landscape of my life. Including, (but not reduced to)
- Thora Birch
- Fairuza Balk
- Christina Ricci
posted by seanyboy 01 August | 18:18
Also, and you're right jonmc...
I'm marginally obsessed with Kelly Rowland.
posted by seanyboy 01 August | 18:22
She's cute, but Jill & Lauryn can get together and make a jonmc oreo cookie any old time...
posted by jonmc 01 August | 18:27
Cute!!! Are you blind.

Although "The Revolution will not be televised" is fantastic, so Jill Scott gets extra points for writing that.
posted by seanyboy 01 August | 18:34
Isabella Rossellini.

Sofia Loren.

Rita Hayworth. Redhead, but often dark enough that in b/w movies she might as well be brunette.

Cynthia Myers, if a couple of movies counts.

Olivia de Havilland.
Vivien Leigh.
posted by ROU Xenophobe 01 August | 18:51
Gil Scot Herron wrote that, seanyboy.

And like I said, I only find Kelly Rowland to be 'cute.' An awful lot of black women who become sex symbols these days basically look like pretty white girls with darker skin (not that this is neccessarily bad, see Halle Berry *drool*), but Jill & Lauryn jave very black looks and style and it looks hawt on them.
posted by jonmc 01 August | 18:58
There will be no rerun brothers.
You fell for my trap jonmc.
Ha, ha, ha (laughs maniacally)


posted by seanyboy 01 August | 19:09
Are you perhaps thinking of the lovely and brilliant Sarah Jones, seanyboy? Oh, wait, maybe that was the trap.
posted by box 01 August | 19:27
I'm marginally obsessed with Kelly Rowland.

I'm marginally obsessed with Fabio.

who's a blonde.

wait! what thread am I in? BRUNETTES?!?! I can't believe it!!!
posted by comments on the world as will 01 August | 19:39
Sophie Marceau
Jennifer Connelly
Madonna (I like her better when she's a brunette)
posted by Eideteker 01 August | 20:26
Ava Gardner

Audrey Tautou
posted by kirkaracha 01 August | 20:37
Did anyone mention Lola G yet? Where's she been? Hubba hubba!
posted by Eideteker 01 August | 20:49
NATALIE WOOD!
Jennifer Tilly
Ming-Na Wen (Mercy!)
Lauren Graham
Rose McGowan
Selma Blair
Jayne Kennedy
posted by black8 01 August | 20:54
Yay for brunettes! (I'm a burnette) I'm glad someone made this thread.
posted by LunaticFringe 01 August | 21:04
Halle Berry.
posted by brujita 02 August | 00:13
Well, if we're going to current ones, Rachel Weisz, Famke Janssen, Minnie Driver, Winona Ryder.
posted by ROU Xenophobe 02 August | 03:39
People with black hair are NOT brunettes. Stop the madness.
posted by getoffmylawn 02 August | 12:28
So true, getoffmylawn, so true.
posted by Hugh Janus 02 August | 13:02
As said above, Louise Brooks and Myrna Loy. Both are incredibly yummy.
posted by King of Prontopia 03 August | 15:31
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