These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

The 1940s gave us Hollywood’s true golden age beauties, when stars like Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, and Hedy Lamarr lit up the silver screen with a sophistication we just don’t see anymore. These 30 stunning photographs capture that old Hollywood magic – the perfectly waved hair, the elegant gowns, those sultry glances that made hearts skip a beat. Before photoshop and botox, these ladies had that special something that made them unforgettable. Pure class, pure glamour, pure Hollywood.

#1 Judy Garland

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Eric Carpenter

#2 Rita Hayworth

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

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#3 Lana Turner

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: MGM Studio portrait

#4 Vivien Leigh

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Hollywood (magazine)

#5 Hedy Lamarr

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

#6 Grace Kelly

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Paramount publicity photographer

#7 Ginger Rogers

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio publicity still

#8 Veronica Lake

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Paramount Pictures

#9 Katharine Hepburn

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios/Adam Cuerden

#10 Olivia De Havilland

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Selznick International Pictures/Fred Parrish

#11 Jennifer Jones

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio Publicity

#12 Rosalind Russell

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

#13 Mary Astor

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio

#14 Eleanor Parker

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio Publicity

#15 Marlene Dietrich

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Twentieth Century Fox

#16 Ingrid Bergman

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: MGM photographer

#17 Greer Garson

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: MGM studio

#18 Bette Davis

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Warner Bros.

#19 Betty Grable

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

#20 Ava Gardner

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

#21 Claudette Colbert

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Paramount

#22 Maureen O’hara

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: RKO

#23 Lauren Bacall

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: László Josef Willinger

#24 Jane Wyman

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Universal Pictures

#25 Paulette Goddard

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Paramount Pictures

#26 Joan Leslie

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Dell Publishing

#27 Priscilla Lane

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Wikimedia Commons

#28 Joan Crawford

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio publicity still

#29 Barbara Stanwyck

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: Studio publicity still

#30 Donna Reed

These 30 Photos Prove The ’40s Had Hollywood’s Most Beautiful Women

Image source: ABC Television