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In Reply to: How high are the Stars? posted by Bambi B on February 22, 2005 at 11:50:22:
>>Ladd was famous for being extra short<<Which is why sub - 5 foot Veronica Lake was cast as his leading lady a couple of times.
I remember reading somewhere that humans have been getting taller through the ages thanks to better nutrition and medicine. The Egyptian mummies I've seen are sometimes startlingly small, well under 5'. The typical adult male of Jesus' time was about 5 feet tall. The Vikings who were seen as giants by their Europeans contemporaries were around 6 feet tall. One wonders what they would made of one of today's 6 1/2 feet tall, 350 pound NFL linemen.
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Rob Doorack,Intereesting re: Veronica Lake. If I were to forced to rank movie women actors by sheer, perfect beauty, I would have to say Veronica Lake first and the young Elizabeth Taylor a close second. Lake was just ravishing. The fact that she was sub 5' makes those perfect proportions even more astounding. It's a terrible pity Lake's life was so very short, I'm sorry, I mean to say "brief".
There was a long article in "The New Yorker" as few months ago that you would probably enjoy. This concerns the subject of people's height historically. The results of these studies surprised me and this is a subject that I, as a tall person, have followed a long time.
[Some of the figures below may not be exact since I'm quoting from memory:]
The greatest increase in average height are the Dutch. Since 1945 the average has groen 5" for men and women and they have beceome the tallest people in the world. I'm 3/4 Dutch, 1/4 English and 6'2"- while 5'-10 is the average for a women and 6'2 the average height of an adult male in Holland. The Scandanavians are all tall- mostly I think 6'1 and 5'10. And taller than Americans who are 5'10 and 5'8 I think. Another surprise are the Japanese, who, due to nutritional changes since WWII, are today only 1/2" shorter than American males- another "most improved" award there. US males have grown only 1/2" on average since WWII, one of the lesser improvements. The dramatic rise of junk- starch and sugar-based and processed foods, with a consequential malnutrition, are blamed for the poor showing.
In summary, there have been noticeable increases worldwide in average height by nationality and these changes to physical characteristics are influenced predominantly by nutrition.
Cheers,
Bambi B
> > It's a terrible pity Lake's life was so very short, I'm sorry, I mean to say "brief" < <It wasn't that brief - she died at age 54. Her life was quite tragic though, and her long out - of - print autobiography is worth reading if you can find it.
> > If I were to forced to rank movie women actors by sheer, perfect beauty, I would have to say Veronica Lake first and the young Elizabeth Taylor a close second < <
I think I'd put Louise Brooks and the silent era Gloria Swanson above either of those ladies, but those are just my preferences. Brooks probably wins the title of the smartest film actress ever, judging by the writing she did in her later years.
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