Time as YOU know it literally came to nearly a standstill for about a decade for me.
I completely missed the sixties.
Since all contact became lost with the US, and it was the enemy, what American movies I saw were all pre-sixties, all in black and white.
So my movie babes are women like Gardner, Turner, De Havilland, Linda Darnell. I had a thing for Bette Davis.
They showed every Errol Flynn movie in Cuba, all the time. It took me a long time to figure out why; Errol spent time in the mountains with Fidel. His last movie was released in 1959, it was titled "Attack of the Cuban Rebel Girls"...here, look for yourself.
All of David Niven's movies as well...a friend of Errol's I guess.
I got a double dose of Bogart, Cagney, Raft, Robinson, and John Wayne. I remember names like Jack Carson (I was a huge fan of his when I was a kid) Claude Rains, and Alan Hale...Sr.
My favorite movie was (could very well still be actually) "Gentleman Jim" with Flynn, and I remember that even as a kid I thought that the move Claude Rains put on Bette Davis on the deck of the cruise ship in "Now Voyager", when he stuck two cigarettes in his mouth, lit them with one flame, and handed one to her, was the coolest move a guy could put on a girl. Even today, I seem to gravitate towards the more Classic screen siren; Theron, Bassinger
But the forties...now those were beautiful women.
