“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rita Hayworth
Paola Negri
Jan Sterling
G. Swanson
Dorothy Sebastian
Diane Baker
Deborah Kerr
C. Colbert
Barbara Stanwyck
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Anita Louise
Toby Wing
Audrey Hepburn
Grace Kelly
Vivien Leigh
Ava Gardner
Jan Sterling
Katharine Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Brigitte Bardot
Well, many of them were just reading their lines. Also, it’s Vivien, not Vivian. And a picture of Marilyn Monroe reading (there are countless) would have looked great on your list. But the subject is interesting, it shows that they had both brains and beauty.