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Beautiful and talented, Creator of Legendary Besame mucho Consuelo Velazquez (August 21, 1916 – January 22, 2005)

Creator of Legendary Besame mucho Consuelo Velazquez
Time irreparably destroyed her appearance, and she herself didn’t like her reflection in the mirror. She really lived the life of another woman, not the one who created Besame Mucho. And that Consuelita, like admirers affectionately called her at the height of glory, long ago died. Buried in the soul of this unrecognizable lady with a nervous tic and swollen eyes – a consequence of kidney disease.
Velazquez was only 20 years old when, in 1944, she first came to Los Angeles, and not just to Los Angeles – Hollywood. The timid Mexican Consuelo, accompanied by her mother, who did not take her eyes off her, then still did not believe that she was a celebrity! Of course, she dreamed of becoming famous, but not for one song! In particular, she wanted to become a great classical pianist, because she graduated from the National Conservatory in Mexico City and already performed with concerts at the Palace of Fine Arts and on the radio.
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Honored artist of Russia, Divinely beautiful ballerina Olga Zabotkina (January 18, 1936, Leningrad – December 21, 2001, Moscow)

Divinely beautiful ballerina Olga Zabotkina

“I have never met a woman more beautiful than her” – said almost every man who had the happiness to be familiar with her. Soviet Russian ballerina and film actress Olga Zabotkina was a personification of rare grace, beauty and femininity. She had a gravity field with such force that it was useless to resist. One look – and you fall into the abyss! She made thousands of men to fall in love with her, but never allowed to approach close to her. Everyone was surprised when she married a poet-humorist Alexander Ivanov (1936-1996), for he was not a man of her dreams. Anyway, they were fond of each other.
Meanwhile, the life of Olga was not easy. She lost her fortune to become a mother because of the hard life circumstances. It would seem that this divinely beautiful woman should shine diamond and revel in happiness. But God gave her a lot of tests, starting with the siege childhood and ending with a severe form of the disease, which ruined her. She did not like the publicity, although for the actress and ballerina – is nonsense. However, the last few years she was very ill, almost did not come out, and invited to her house no one. “I do not want you to see me like this”, – she answered on the phone.
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Most beautiful eyes of cinema Michele Morgan (29 February, 1920 – 20 December, 2016)

Most beautiful eyes of cinema Michele Morgan

20 December, 2016 a legendary French actress Michele Morgan died at the age of 96 years. Once called the owner of “the most beautiful eyes” in the history of cinema. According to Le Figaro, French actress Michele Morgan became best known for the film “Port of Shadows” by Marcel Carné. “On the 97th year of life, the most beautiful eyes of cinema forever closed this morning, on Tuesday, 20 of December”, – said the relatives of the actress. Also, Michelle Morgan was an abstract artist, and loved to paint. After the death of her husband and son (10 years ago) she rarely appeared in public. She had 6 grandchildren who love her.
One interesting fact: the magnificent rose ‘Michele Morgan’ was named in honor of the great French actress and a woman of rare beauty.
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Remembering 1950s French beauty Estella Blain (1930 – 1982)

Remembering 1950s French beauty Estella Blain (1930 – 1982)

This gorgeous natural blonde with rare sapphire-blue eyes was one of the sexiest stars of 1950-1960s of French cinema, alongside with Bridget Bardot. Singer and actress, remembered worldwide as Madame De Montespan in Angelique and the King (1966), she committed suicide 1 January 1982. It is unfortunate that the circumstances have forced her to do it. So, the first morning of a new year she committed suicide by shooting herself in the head.
It is noteworthy, the number of suicides, oddly enough, grows during the holidays – New Year, Christmas, Valentine’s Day … In the atmosphere of fun, particularly, may appear acute sense of loneliness, especially when these people have no one to celebrate the holiday with. Thus, to the depressive state may add suicidal thoughts and, life can end in tragedy. Eventually, this happened to a fragile, lonesome, and depressed Estella Blain.
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Theater and film actress Tsvetana Maneva

Beautiful Bulgarian actress Tzvetana Maneva
Director Luben Groys spoke of her art as a “living miracle”: “Tsvetana is an actress by nature. For a long time I was looking for these two words – a miracle and a living. According to him, her work, like “high aerobatics in art” was performed before his eyes. “Her art breathes. She achieves miracles not in a supernatural way, but with talent, hard work and courage.”
Tsvetana Maneva grew up in the family of an actor who started her career, like many Bulgarian actors who saw an important educational mission in their work. They traveled around the country, knew the hardships, played under the strict eye of fascist censorship. The democratism of the Bulgarian theater determined the creative position of Georgy Manev, a modest and devoted worker of the theater during the Bulgarian Resistance. Tempering of those years postponed the imprint on his work, gave his images a manly density, physical and moral stability, sobriety and optimism. And his daughter inherited these solid moral foundations. They became her nature and in many ways determined her way in art, active creative and civic position.
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Icon of style 1970s Hollywood brightest star Faye Dunaway

1970s Hollywood brightest star Faye Dunaway
Hollywood of the 1970s, which once lived with the talents and charm of beautiful film stars, began to prefer men. In 1934, among the most revered idols were six women, in 1964 – only three, and in 1973 – two: Barbra Streisand and Goldie Hawn. Hollywood actresses faced the danger of losing their jobs. Producers from now on preferred to sign contracts for with men instead of capricious actresses. At this point in the Hollywood sky a new star caught fire – Faye Dunaway. The appearance on the screen of Faye Dunaway, her success with the audience went against the clearly worked out formula of success, traditional in the American film business.
Born in Florida in 1941, Faye Dunaway grew up in a small provincial town of Baskem. She grew up in a wealthy family, studied music, ballet and singing. An army brat, Dunaway spent her youth traveling from one military base to another with her family. After spending her college years at the University of Florida she suddenly left the university and entered Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. From now on, she became seriously involved in the theater. The turning point in her fate was the invitation from the famous director of theater and cinema Elia Kazan to the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in 1962.
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Born 6 November 1983, Beautiful Princess Ameerah Al Taweel, 2015 Photo, source Facebook

Beautiful Princess Ameerah Al Taweel – a perfect example of the combination of incredible beauty, a flexible mind and a good heart. The desire of 32-year-old princess of Saudi Arabia if not save, or at least to make this world a better place delights all. Courageous and determined young woman is dealing with humanitarian issues, not only in Saudi Arabia, but also throughout the world. Ameerah Al Taweel has visited more than 70 countries, in order to understand and solve the acute problems of the world. Princess is struggling against poverty and the consequences of disasters. She participated in the organization of the charitable fund, set up shelter in West Africa to provide assistance to victims of floods in Pakistan, opened the Center for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and led the mission to help Somalia.
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Chamarel beautiful Seven-Color Earths

Chamarel beautiful Seven-Color Earths

French Terres des Sept Couleurs, known as Seven-colored sand, is a formation and a famous tourist attraction located in the south-west of Mauritius, near the village of Chamarel. Occupied by sand dunes, this small area consists of sand of seven different colors (red, brown, purple, green, blue, purple and yellow). Noteworthy, the sands of these colors randomly located in different layers, and dunes, painted in different colors, seem surreal. Meanwhile, this phenomenon is also on a small scale. For instance, if you mix two handfuls of different shades, eventually they will still be divided according to the color spectrum. Also noteworthy that the dunes are not subject to erosion despite the torrential tropical rains of Mauritius.

The sands formed from basalt (effusive rock) into clay, which then turned into ferralite soil due to complete hydrolysis. Aluminum and iron, the two main components, give the blue-purplish and red-black color, respectively. According to researchers, the difference in shades is a consequence of the cooling of molten volcanic rocks at different external temperatures. However, it is still not clear why they did not mix.
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Portrait of Beautiful Italian actress Valentina Cortese, 1957. Painting by Soviet artist Viktor Oreshnikov

Beautiful Italian actress Valentina Cortese
Born 1 January 1923 in Milan, Valentina Cortese is a famous Italian actress of cinema and theater, who successfully starred abroad, and in particular in Hollywood.
Cortese began her acting career in Italy, performed on stage in Milan’s Teatro Piccolo, and played in the productions of Giorgio Strehler.
She made her debut in cinema in 1941. Already in the second film she played the main role and then was in demand in the role of a virtuous, modest young woman, a faithful lover and virtuous wife. According to critics, due to dissatisfaction with the clichés, she worked in the theater, where she had a more diverse repertoire.
Her first film in Hollywood “The House on the Telegraph Hill” (1951) gave her and her husband world fame. She married Richard Basehart after the shooting in this film. Soon they had a son, Jackie Basehart (also an actor). Unfortunately, nine years later the marriage broke up.
She starred in films by well-known directors – Jules Dassin, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, François Truffaut, Orson Welles, and Franco Rossi. Also, Franco Zeffirelli, Joseph Losey, Maximilian Schell, Mario Monicelli, Stanley Cramer, Terry Gilliam and many others.
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