Rita Hayworth - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Rita Hayworth's potential was obvious at an early age.  In 1935 at age 17 she had already signed a short term studio contract with Fox . By 19 she had signed on with Colombia Studios.

From those early beginnings in the mid-1930s RIta Hayworth would finish the 1940s as one of Hollywood's major stars.

Rita Hayworth aolong side Betty Grable and other 1930s and 40s bombshells graced the footlockers and barrack walls of many an enlisted soldier during World War II.

Her crowning glory, however, was her fiery auburn mane of hair which set her appart from the stereotypical blonde bombshells and sultry brunettes in movies such as Gilda famous for it's one glove striptease, the Loves of Carmen and the Lady from Shanghai .

Yvonne De Carlo - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Yvonne De Carlo had a career in film and television spanning six decades.  She was the recipient of not one but two stars on the Hollywood Boulevard walk of fame one for her contribution to the film industry and the second for her contribution to television.

De Carlo was reputedly an intimate of Howard Hughes and played opposite some of the most desirable and bankable leading men in the Hollywood of the 1940s and 50s including But Lancaster and Charlton Heston.  She was a glamorous pin up girl who helped raise the morale of troops in the second world war but to most people she will forever be remembered as Lilly Munster in the 1960s monster comedy series.

All of these achievements, appearances and accolades, however fail to underscore the most obvious attribute Yvonne De Carlo possessed in abundance and that is that in her prime, which lasted quite a while, she was smoking hot.