The great ladies of classic cinema gave prominence to the so-called ‘seventh art’. Many of them are past their 80s and 90s and are still active shooting on time. Sofía Loren with 87 years, Joan Collins with 89, Gina Lollobrigida with 95, Ángela Lansbury with 97 or Eva Marie Saint with 98 are some examples.
Between the 1930s and 1960s, Hollywood experienced what was known as the ‘Golden Age’ of cinematography. Those were the years in which cinema came to be truly considered ‘the seventh art’. A form of artistic expression that, moreover, had become a form of industry. At the same time, in Europe, between the 1950s and 1970s, there was an era of great predominance of cinema made in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and, to a lesser extent, Spain.
On both sides of the ‘pond’ this fascination with cinema would not have been the same without the existence of a series of actresses who became authentic myths. Many of them over eighty and ninety years old are still active defying the passage of time and health.
Angela Landsbury
Angela Landsbury He will turn 97 in October. The actress made her film debut in 1944 with the classic dying light beside ingrid bergman. In his filmography there are more than a hundred titles and he has played roles in all kinds of films. From western to musical comedies.
Angela Landsbury.
For years it was the favorite of the children’s public thanks to the rookie witch (1971) by Disney. In the eighties she played a character by which she will always be identified, the writer Jessica Flecher in the mystery series It has written a crime.
Eva Marie Saint
At the age of 98, he began his career in the incipient television of 1946. From there he went to the theater and then to the cinema. His rise to fame came from accompanying Marlon Brando in The law of silence. This film also earned her the Oscar for best supporting actress.
Eva Marie Saint.
Joan Collins
Born in 1932, she was a real sex symbol in the fifties thanks to the movie land of pharaohs (1953) and defied the censorship of the time with his exotic dances in The opposite sex (1956) and The island in the sun (1957). With a hectic private life, with five marriages behind her, Joan ended up in the 60s and 70s starring in B movies. One of them, the erotic tape the stallion (1979) made them notice her to interpret the series Dynasty. This is how he returned to fame and since then he has not stopped working.
John Collins.
One of his latest projects has been Glow and Darknessthe controversial series by José Luis Moreno now tarnished by ‘Operation Titella’.
kim novak
Kim Novak.
Born in Chicago in 1933, it was initially launched as an imitation of Marilyn Monroe in films such as I married a witch. However, the great performance of this classic actress came in Vertigo (1959), for many the best film of hitchcock. After participating in Falcon Crest he retired from show business in 1991.
Shirley MacLaine and Warren Betty
This multidisciplinary artist born in 1934 has done it all. Dancer, actress, singer, writer of books on spirituality and political activist. She won the Oscar for the strength of lovein 1983. His last appearance on the screen was in 2016.
Shirley MacLaine.
His brother, Warren Beatty, born in 1937, is also still active. Protagonist of unforgettable works such as splendor in the grass either barefoot in the parkhas also starred in gossip magazines for years for his romances.
sophia loren
Born in 1934, the Italian diva par excellence lived for three years in the United States, although most of her American films are forgettable. Hollywood tried to sophisticated it and the result was not positive.
Sophia Loren.
On his return to Europe he shot again with great filmmakers like his friend Vittorio de Sicathanks to which he won an Oscar for Two women (1960). In addition, Loren has been an example of how to overcome the passage of time for years.
Gina Lollobrigida
If there was an Italian actress who competed in popularity with her neighbor, it was Gina Lollobrigida. ‘La Lollo’, who has just turned 95, known at the time as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’, she shot popular films in her country, although she also starred in films in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. She began playing popular roles in comedies like Bread, love and fantasy beside Vittorio de Sica either The Roman.
Gina Lollobrigida.
Disappointed in her time in Hollywood where they only looked for her exotic beauty in her, she returned to Europe to shoot more sophisticated films such as imperial venus, Hippolyta’s beauty either Good evening, Mrs. Campbell. In recent years she has been present in the media for her controversial marriage to the Catalan Javier Rigau and for the trial that has pitted her against her son and grandson who have tried to disqualify her.
The divas of classic cinema who survive active, from Sofia Loren to Joan Collins