January 13th, 2017 | Updated on February 24th, 2024
Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch is an American actress and singer. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage, after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. Actress Raquel Welch was launched as a cinematic sex symbol in One Million Years B.C. (1966) and continues to be regarded as one of the world’s great beauties.
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 15. Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian actress. A striking beauty, Loren is often listed among the world’s all time most attractive women.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic “dumb blonde” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality.
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child.Multiple Grammy winner and “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin is known for such hits as “Respect,” “Freeway of Love” and “I Say a Little Prayer.”
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born 31 July 1944) is an American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin. She is a prolific actress of English, French, and Spanish-speaking films, the fourth child of Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight with fourth wife Oona O’Neill.
Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn “Gena” Rowlands is an American film, stage, and television actress, whose career in the entertainment industry has spanned over six decades.
Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. A native of California, she met and married John Phillips in San Francisco as a teenager, and went on to co-found the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas in 1965.
Jean Shrimpton
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world’s first supermodels.Jean Shrimpton is known for being one of the world’s first supermodels, the highest-paid model of the 1960s and the face of “Swinging London,” as well as for popularizing the miniskirt.
Mel Ferrer And Natalie Wood
Melchor Gastón “Mel” Ferrer was an American actor, film director, and film producer. Natalie Wood was an American film and television actress. She was known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, and West Side Story.
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.Singer and musician Dolly Parton is a beloved cultural icon whose powerful voice, songwriting and personality have won the hearts of country and pop music fans for decades.
Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss film and television actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No.
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award. He also started the Newman’s Own food company, which donates all profits to charity.
Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger is an English singer, songwriter and actor, the lead singer and a co-founder of the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger has become a rock legend for his gritty, blues-influenced songs and charismatic stage presence.
Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page was an American model who gained a significant profile in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. Often referred to as the “Queen of Pinups”, her jet black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations.
Elvis Presley
Musician and actor Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as “the King of Rock and Roll”, or simply, “the King”.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist.She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials B.B.
James Dean
Movie actor and cultural icon James Dean starred in ‘East of Eden,’ ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and ‘Giant.’ He was killed in a tragic car accident at age 24.He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic “dumb blonde” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era’s attitudes towards sexuality.Actress Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbols. She died of a drug overdose in 1962.
