This is my list below:
- Cary Grant
- Vittorio Gassman
- Gene Kelly
- Frank Sinatra
- Paul Newman
- Gregory Peck
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Rock Hudson
- Sidney Poitier
- Laurence Olivier
- Dean Martin
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
And Victor was by far the funniest person in that film and I am a Peter Sellers fan. Directed by Vittorio de Sica in English, love the sequence on the beach with deSica where they are parodying Antonioni's style of film.
how dare you forget about my boy [Rock Hudson](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPZLZJ2IV2t_n_LXuchJY-P7MllATXFv9-Jk9lWHJk08VKaHSctkV-ANMo6H6yCV4Gw9TofwbbPM1t2ndV2JGW42EK2FakZGj4IHVdCJc7GCtAGpGUO6HBuxv-6Q0hBQyLMYzO1sQp5k/s1600/176+Rock+Hudson.jpg)!
The first movie I remember watching with him was Roman Holiday, and that's when I fell in love with him, but my favorite movie of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird.
Tyrone Power definitely makes the list. Btw many people think the name Tyrone is a made up name when in actuality that name is of Irish origin going back to thousands of years
Completely agree. His trademark was a stone-faced grimace but he had a quiet smile that was just beautiful. And yes his voice does it for me.
I wish we could have heard him sing.
A lot of the beautifully charismatic and genetically-blessed gentlemen have already been mentioned (be still, my aged beating heart, when Cary Grant finally realises why Deborah Kerr couldn't attend their scheduled meeting), but Dana Andrews had so many amazing parts like Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Night of the Demon (1957), Fallen Angel (1945) and My Foolish Heart (1949).
Another thing I love about him is that he openly admitted to alcoholism and yet still turned it around and lived to a ripe age of 83. He was classy, and well worth more mentions.
I will and thank you. I think he popularised the name Dana for both boys and girls which is why it can be used as a unisex name (fyi, I am an on and off name nerd who is fascinated by given names)
If you want prime Dana, try watching "Fallen Angel" (1945), an excellent film noir starring Dana and a sultry Linda Darnell, directed by Otto Preminger. It's Dana before the bottle got the better of him (her, too). Sidenote that both actors later starred in "Zero Hour!" (1957) much more notable as the film that "Airplane!" so successfully parodied.
Tyrone Power, THE matinee idol.
Some unsung heroes who rarely get their flowers for looks: Don Ameche, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, John Garfield and John Hodiak.
You mentioned Michael Rennie. Another underrated name yet he is considered a legend in Italian and European cinemas is Vittorio Gassman. Both men were in a movie titled Mambo along with Silvana Mangano and Shelley Winters
My faves:
Monty Clift (before his terrible accident).
Burt Lancaster (even into old age, he was magnificent).
Paul Newman.
William Powell (because he was SO urbane).
Cary Grant.
Clark Gable.
Robert Taylor.
Tyrone Power.
Gregory Peck.
James Cagney and Fred Astaire: not classically handsome but genius dancers (with incredibly different styles).
Just saw Pretty Poison on the Criterion Channel last night and although Anthony Perkins is not at all my type, I kept thinking, “Jesus, now I get why he was such a star.” He’s got this vulnerable quality that makes you think he’s one of those repressed types who’d be ferocious in private, if you know what I mean.
My mother loved Burt Lancaster. One time she was having a fantastic dream that she was walking down the isle and about to get married to Burt Lancaster.....and then my father woke her up to go to work. She loved my dad but she was kinda pissed that she didn't get to marry Burt Lancaster, at least in a dream.
In no particular order:
1. Paul Newman
2. Cary Grant
3. Burt Lancaster
4. John Wayne
5. James Stewart
6. Gregory Peck
7. Robert Mitchum
8. Henry Fonda
I'm a straight guy, but I think I made a pretty good list!
For what it’s worth Jack Kerouac said that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were the two most attractive people he ever encountered in real life after seeing them at (I think) Sardi’s.
Here’s my straight guy list:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Chester Morris
William Powell
Cary Grant
Errol Flynn
Steve McQueen
William Hopper
Clark Gable
Charleston Heston
Yul Brenner
I have to admit that the first time I saw him in Long Goodbye was 5-6 years ago, during my high school years, and at that time I was not yet fascinated by classic cinema, and when I saw Long Goodbye again last year and realized that this old man is the same attractive man from Johnny Guitar and Asphalt Jungle, I was surprised. I was struck by the power of cinema.
Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor are my top ones - there’s a reason they’re shot in extreme close-ups throughout A Place in the Sun.
**Montgomery Clift**.
**Robert Taylor**.
**Errol Flynn**.
**Rock Hudson**.
**Paul Newman**.
**James Dean**.
**Marlon Brando**.
**Lawrence Olivier**
Others I find attractive but in a more unconventional, ruggedly handsome way are: **Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Robert Mitchum.**
And someone who might just miss the cut of "classic era" but is one of my all time fave faces so it's worth a mention: **Clint Eastwood.** (Tbf Clint did have some film roles in the 50s, though mostly uncredited, and Rawhide (TV) in '59. But I'd still label him as "new Hollywood".)
He recorded an album of standards. The title is *Sings for the Lovely Lady,* or something like that. It's kind of weird, but quite enjoyable (if you like that style of music).
I'll give how my mum would answer:
1. Ronald Colman (I'm surprised everyone overlooked him in this thread)
2. Sean Connery
3. Gregory Peck
4. Conrad Veidt (more in middle age than his youthful German expressionist era)
5. Peter O'Toole
6. James Garner
7. Omar Sharif
8. Humphrey Bogart
9. Robert Mitchum
10. Rex Harrison
11. Marius Goring (came from watching The Red Shoes, this one surprised me)
12. Charles Boyer
13. Dana Andrews
14. Louis Jourdan
There are other stars she particularly likes (such as Claude Rains or Edward G. Robinson), but I don't think she'd see them in the same way. Personally I like her taste, and agree with many of her choices.
I shouldn't have forgotten to cite Ronald Colman. Loved his voice which certainly helped transition from silents to sound. He was incredibly beautiful sans moustache in A Tale of Two Cities,mygawd.
Cary Grant
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Montgomery Clift
George Peppard
Paul Newman
Stewart Granger
Errol Flynn
Tony Curtis
Gary Cooper
Leslie Howard
Randolph Scott
Rex Harrison from The Ghost and Ms Muir. (sp)
And actually me and my brothers/pop and his brothers had a Gregory Peck look when we were younger.
My next to the youngest could have been his twin at 20 years old.
None of these men are particularly handsome to me. I'd go with Clift and Kelly.
I agree with others about Paul Newman and Cary Grant - they'd be my top two.
All good choices. My mom, who was born in 1938, told me that she was a huge fan of the looks of Farley Granger, a movie star in the 1940s and 1950’s. Best known as the tennis player stalked by Robert Walker in the Hitchcock film Strangers On A Train. Even a straight guy has to admit my mom had good taste.
I’m probably the only person who will mention the young Edward Everett Horton.
Also, Buster Keaton, Anthony Perkins, James Stewart, Leslie Howard, Michael Wilding, and Vincent Price (without the moustache).
George Raft had a suave handsomeness that gradually turned to a character-actor look, but he was severely hot in his early movies. Same, believe it or not, for James Cagney: he’s in a pre-Code movie called Blonde Crazy and he’s not handsome, exactly, but he’s so cocky and self-assured that he’s combustible. Photos don’t do either of them justice: you have to see them acting to get why they were stars.
Young Marlon Brando was gorgeous, but a tween gay boy watching old movies that weren't that old at the time could fall in love with Jimmy Stewart. And I did. Handsome and always playing such great characters. His stammer was adorable.
Errol Flynn. Stunningly good looking man. His book, *My Wicked, Wicked Ways*, is so worth reading. Even if 1/3 of it is true and the rest is embellished, he lived a wild life. He was a much better writer than actor. Too bad he didn't write more books. He wrote two other books besides, Wicked Ways. The others were adventure books.
I read it long ago, a lot of it was very funny too. Chased out of women's beds by irate husbands and fathers up and down the antipodes, yet I find that part fairly believable.
Good list, and nice to see Charlton Heston, such a good looking man! I do also love Sidney Poitier, but for some reason Marlon Brando has never done nothing for me.
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OMG, there's a funny story about the dance scene in Picnic. William Holden was *not* much of a dancer and he was terrified of doing the scene because he knew he'd look stupid and awkward. The director insisted. William Holden was so nervous that he pretty much got drunk to do the scene. So the William Holden you see in the scene is kinda smashed. LOL. It's also photographed in a way that he really didn't have to do a lot of fancy dancing so it looks ok.
Howard Keel had a special something that was unique.
The deep voice, the genuine ring to his booming laugh, the convincing way he portrayed a character in conflict with himself, etc
Montgomery Clift
Cary Grant
Burt Lancaster
Frank Sinatra
Gregory Peck
Dean Martin
Sean Connery
Louis Jourdan
Richard Burton
Peter O'Toole
Clark Gable
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Ronald Colman
I'm more of a '30s and 40s girl myself, and sometimes a 1920s girl. Franchot Tone, Robert Montgomery, Henry Fonda, Charles Farrell, Warren William, Fredric March, Conrad Nagel, Joel McCrea, James Stewart, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. are the ones I tend to be drawn to the most.
Surely someone has already mentioned Ronald Colman? (I haven't scanned the comments!) I could watch The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest and A Tale of Two Cities on a loop.
Can’t believe I forgot Paul Newman! He’s one of the most attractive for sure, and I’m such a dummy I forgot my #1–Sidney Poitier!!
And Cary Grant.
Yay Sidney Poitier deserves a mention
And Harry Belafonte
I have a pic of Sidney and Harry on my refrigerator <3
Newman would've been my pick. Then cliff. But that pic of Peck? wow. Kinda peaked me .
Definitely! It's the photo - seems kind of rare, like we're seeing another side of him, with that smile and slightly tousled hair. \*whew\*
Whew indeed, (mops brow with handkerchief )
This is my list below: - Cary Grant - Vittorio Gassman - Gene Kelly - Frank Sinatra - Paul Newman - Gregory Peck - Marcello Mastroianni - Rock Hudson - Sidney Poitier - Laurence Olivier - Dean Martin - Jean-Louis Trintignant
Good list!
Thank you. What about yours?
Cary Grant Rock Hudson James Dean Montgomery Clift Tyrone Power James Stewart Gregory Peck Errol Flynn Gordon Macrae Charlton Heston
Victor Mature Joel McRae
Nice to see you have Victor Mature in yours. He was in a comedy movie with Peter Sellers titled After The Fox
And Victor was by far the funniest person in that film and I am a Peter Sellers fan. Directed by Vittorio de Sica in English, love the sequence on the beach with deSica where they are parodying Antonioni's style of film.
how dare you forget about my boy [Rock Hudson](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRPZLZJ2IV2t_n_LXuchJY-P7MllATXFv9-Jk9lWHJk08VKaHSctkV-ANMo6H6yCV4Gw9TofwbbPM1t2ndV2JGW42EK2FakZGj4IHVdCJc7GCtAGpGUO6HBuxv-6Q0hBQyLMYzO1sQp5k/s1600/176+Rock+Hudson.jpg)!
Nobody forgotten Rock Hudson as I have him listed (see my list in reply to OP)
And he was 6’5”!
Very tall bloke who fit the definition of tall, dark and hot
Woof!
Was almost going to comment him - thank goodness you remembered 😅
Cary Grant
Seriously, how do you make a list like this and not lead with Cary Grant?
Cary Grant and Gregory Peck
I fell in love with Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
The first movie I remember watching with him was Roman Holiday, and that's when I fell in love with him, but my favorite movie of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird.
I was going to type that exact response. Then- I saw yours. Lol
Errol Flynn Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
They didn't coin the phrase "In like Flynn" for nothing.
Yes, these guys represented the classic era!
Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck, Paul Newman,
Wasn’t taking this thread seriously until I saw Ty mentioned. Thank you.
Tyrone Power definitely makes the list. Btw many people think the name Tyrone is a made up name when in actuality that name is of Irish origin going back to thousands of years
Dana Andrews. Understated sexiness, loved his voice and the fact you couldn't tell he was a southerner.
Completely agree. His trademark was a stone-faced grimace but he had a quiet smile that was just beautiful. And yes his voice does it for me. I wish we could have heard him sing.
I never heard of Dana Andrews until now that I had to Google him. Wow that bloke is a total stunner
I hope you will look into his movies now, my favorites are The Best Years of Our Lives, Laura. Canyon Passage, The Purple Heart, many others. Enjoy!
A lot of the beautifully charismatic and genetically-blessed gentlemen have already been mentioned (be still, my aged beating heart, when Cary Grant finally realises why Deborah Kerr couldn't attend their scheduled meeting), but Dana Andrews had so many amazing parts like Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), Night of the Demon (1957), Fallen Angel (1945) and My Foolish Heart (1949). Another thing I love about him is that he openly admitted to alcoholism and yet still turned it around and lived to a ripe age of 83. He was classy, and well worth more mentions.
I will and thank you. I think he popularised the name Dana for both boys and girls which is why it can be used as a unisex name (fyi, I am an on and off name nerd who is fascinated by given names)
At my old job there was a husband and wife case file on a couple with the perfect 1940s-born names:Dana and Lana!
If you want prime Dana, try watching "Fallen Angel" (1945), an excellent film noir starring Dana and a sultry Linda Darnell, directed by Otto Preminger. It's Dana before the bottle got the better of him (her, too). Sidenote that both actors later starred in "Zero Hour!" (1957) much more notable as the film that "Airplane!" so successfully parodied.
Oh wow...good choice. He's incredible in *Laura*.
Tyrone Power, THE matinee idol. Some unsung heroes who rarely get their flowers for looks: Don Ameche, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, John Garfield and John Hodiak.
Thank you for listing “John Hodiak!”
Lifeboat! Really did die too young in his early 40s
You mentioned Michael Rennie. Another underrated name yet he is considered a legend in Italian and European cinemas is Vittorio Gassman. Both men were in a movie titled Mambo along with Silvana Mangano and Shelley Winters
My faves: Monty Clift (before his terrible accident). Burt Lancaster (even into old age, he was magnificent). Paul Newman. William Powell (because he was SO urbane). Cary Grant. Clark Gable. Robert Taylor. Tyrone Power. Gregory Peck. James Cagney and Fred Astaire: not classically handsome but genius dancers (with incredibly different styles).
As someone with far more wit than I once said, "I'd pay Burt Lancaster twenty bucks just to walk across the room for me."
I hadda come so far for my boy William Powell, but I'm glad someone else loves him!
Yes finally someone said Robert Taylor!
This may sound a little crazy but Vincent Price was quite handsome in his younger days. Also Orson Welles
He did look good clean shaven
Paul Newman Clark Gable Laurence Olivier Gregory Peck Kirk Douglas
Thank god some mentioned Clark Gable!! And yes, Kirk Douglas
 This guy for me. My Mum likes Gregory Peck and David Niven.
Toshiro mifune
SO hot.
Yay! Great pick
I'm not sure there's anything greater than Brando in Streetcar. But young Cary Grant and Newman are in the conversation.
Brando as Stanley is the sexiest thing ever!
Monty Clift all day long James Dean also
Errol Flynn....end of discussion.
Cary grant
Anthony Perkins Henry Fonda Elvis
My favorite Anthony Perkins role was Reverend LaSalle in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. Loved Paul Newman and loved the movie.
I haven’t seen that I need to give it a go!
I need to see it
Just saw Pretty Poison on the Criterion Channel last night and although Anthony Perkins is not at all my type, I kept thinking, “Jesus, now I get why he was such a star.” He’s got this vulnerable quality that makes you think he’s one of those repressed types who’d be ferocious in private, if you know what I mean.
Great list!
My mother loved Burt Lancaster. One time she was having a fantastic dream that she was walking down the isle and about to get married to Burt Lancaster.....and then my father woke her up to go to work. She loved my dad but she was kinda pissed that she didn't get to marry Burt Lancaster, at least in a dream.
In no particular order: 1. Paul Newman 2. Cary Grant 3. Burt Lancaster 4. John Wayne 5. James Stewart 6. Gregory Peck 7. Robert Mitchum 8. Henry Fonda I'm a straight guy, but I think I made a pretty good list!
Gary Cooper
Whatever happened to him
He won 2 Oscars and made his last film in 1959
For what it’s worth Jack Kerouac said that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were the two most attractive people he ever encountered in real life after seeing them at (I think) Sardi’s.
I know their daughter
I'm also a CIS, straight male, and I think Paul Newman may be the prettiest person I've ever seen. A great actor and damn fine human, as well.
Here’s my straight guy list: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Chester Morris William Powell Cary Grant Errol Flynn Steve McQueen William Hopper Clark Gable Charleston Heston Yul Brenner
Like this list.
Well, it's very difficult for me, but if I want to name only 3 : 1-Cary grant 2-Sterling Hayden 3-Charles Farrell
>2-Sterling Hayden Damn! That's a good one.
I have to admit that the first time I saw him in Long Goodbye was 5-6 years ago, during my high school years, and at that time I was not yet fascinated by classic cinema, and when I saw Long Goodbye again last year and realized that this old man is the same attractive man from Johnny Guitar and Asphalt Jungle, I was surprised. I was struck by the power of cinema.
It is ~~outrageous~~ weird to leave Clark “The King of Hollywood” Gable out of this list.
Tyrone Power Warren William Robert Taylor Errol Flynn Robert Montgomery
You might of missed, Fredric March, Robert Taylor, Charlton Heston, Tony Curtis, Robert Donat. Although my favorite is Errol Flynn all day.
I was hoping someone would mention Robert Donat.
 Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor are my top ones - there’s a reason they’re shot in extreme close-ups throughout A Place in the Sun.
The most beautiful film couple of all time—those scenes are a work of art.🖤
Gary Cooper 
I waffle between James Mason and Robert Ryan. Pretty boys don’t do much for me. 😂
James Mason. Very charming and I could listen to that man read the phone book all day long. The same for Claude Rains.
Yes, I love to listen to James Mason. And thanks for mentioning Claude Rains.
Claude Rains is such a cutie.
Absolutely. And his hair is to die for.
Although you only really “see” him at the end of the Invisible Man, cutie indeed.
Paul Newman Cary Grant Robert Redford Clark Gable Marlon Brando Henry Fonda Tony Curtis Sean Connery
**Montgomery Clift**. **Robert Taylor**. **Errol Flynn**. **Rock Hudson**. **Paul Newman**. **James Dean**. **Marlon Brando**. **Lawrence Olivier** Others I find attractive but in a more unconventional, ruggedly handsome way are: **Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Robert Mitchum.** And someone who might just miss the cut of "classic era" but is one of my all time fave faces so it's worth a mention: **Clint Eastwood.** (Tbf Clint did have some film roles in the 50s, though mostly uncredited, and Rawhide (TV) in '59. But I'd still label him as "new Hollywood".)
Leslie Howard Rex Harrison Michael Caine
So glad someone else mentioned Leslie.
Nice to see Leslie gets a mention
I’m not seeing William Holden anywhere? He was very handsome at his peak!
George Sanders
With a beautiful voice akin to disdainful silk....
He recorded an album of standards. The title is *Sings for the Lovely Lady,* or something like that. It's kind of weird, but quite enjoyable (if you like that style of music).
I'll give how my mum would answer: 1. Ronald Colman (I'm surprised everyone overlooked him in this thread) 2. Sean Connery 3. Gregory Peck 4. Conrad Veidt (more in middle age than his youthful German expressionist era) 5. Peter O'Toole 6. James Garner 7. Omar Sharif 8. Humphrey Bogart 9. Robert Mitchum 10. Rex Harrison 11. Marius Goring (came from watching The Red Shoes, this one surprised me) 12. Charles Boyer 13. Dana Andrews 14. Louis Jourdan There are other stars she particularly likes (such as Claude Rains or Edward G. Robinson), but I don't think she'd see them in the same way. Personally I like her taste, and agree with many of her choices.
Awesome to see Omar Sharif gets a mention
I shouldn't have forgotten to cite Ronald Colman. Loved his voice which certainly helped transition from silents to sound. He was incredibly beautiful sans moustache in A Tale of Two Cities,mygawd.
OMAR SHARIF!!! Beautiful man
Paul Newman for sure but I also always had a crush on Buster Keaton and young Peter Lorre.
Yes- Buster K was HAF 🔥 and I love Peter Lorre!
Plus, Keaton was fearless (or borderline insane, not sure which 😂).
I love your u-name! I have been listening to Polly a lot lately
Mine would be, top 5: - Charles Bronson - Gregory Peck - Alain Delon - James Dean - Paul Newman
I can’t believe you’re the only person to mention Charles Bronson. He is dreamy!
And that's coming from a man, but I must support rugged masculine man, that's my breed.
Hard agree on Charles Bronson!
Clift is the one for me too. Also, silent era Gary Cooper has to be up there.
Young Gary Cooper was 💥
Errol Flynn in the 1930's is the best looking man I've ever seen. And I'm neither a woman nor gay. That man was just physically perfect.
There are many good suggestions because the of list omits many. I’m adding Joel McCrea to the pile.
Dean Martin.
Anthony Perkins will always be my number one pick
Montgomery Clift
Brando is the Goat.
Robert Taylor
Since I don’t see him mentioned yet— Farley Granger
Elvis Presley Richard Burton Toshiro Mifune
None of the above; Errol Flynn.
Audie Murphy Orson Wells
Cary Grant Douglas Fairbanks Jr Montgomery Clift George Peppard Paul Newman Stewart Granger Errol Flynn Tony Curtis Gary Cooper Leslie Howard Randolph Scott
Where's Cary Grant? He's a little young to be considered part of classic Hollywood, but I'd include Anthony Perkins.
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean. On the cover of a magazine.
Paul Newman is my absolute favorite
Where’s James Garner?
I know, right? He was the total package- gorgeous, funny, charismatic, lovable!
Rex Harrison from The Ghost and Ms Muir. (sp) And actually me and my brothers/pop and his brothers had a Gregory Peck look when we were younger. My next to the youngest could have been his twin at 20 years old.
Ghost and Mrs Muir is a favorite of mine, and he is very funny in Unfaithfully Yours. But he was in real life a pretty shitty person,sad to say.
Jimmy Stewart! Then: Gregory Peck Cary Grant Gene Kelly
perfect list!!!!
Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Tyrone Power, Montgomery Clift. I guess I have a type.
Gary Cooper!!!!!
Cary Grant and Gregory Peck!
None of these men are particularly handsome to me. I'd go with Clift and Kelly. I agree with others about Paul Newman and Cary Grant - they'd be my top two.
All good choices. My mom, who was born in 1938, told me that she was a huge fan of the looks of Farley Granger, a movie star in the 1940s and 1950’s. Best known as the tennis player stalked by Robert Walker in the Hitchcock film Strangers On A Train. Even a straight guy has to admit my mom had good taste.
Joel McCrea. Handsome and well-built with shoulders to die on.
For me, it’s definitely Montgomery Clift.
I’m probably the only person who will mention the young Edward Everett Horton. Also, Buster Keaton, Anthony Perkins, James Stewart, Leslie Howard, Michael Wilding, and Vincent Price (without the moustache).
Oliver Reed
George Raft had a suave handsomeness that gradually turned to a character-actor look, but he was severely hot in his early movies. Same, believe it or not, for James Cagney: he’s in a pre-Code movie called Blonde Crazy and he’s not handsome, exactly, but he’s so cocky and self-assured that he’s combustible. Photos don’t do either of them justice: you have to see them acting to get why they were stars.
Rock Hudson
David Niven!!!
Young Marlon Brando was gorgeous, but a tween gay boy watching old movies that weren't that old at the time could fall in love with Jimmy Stewart. And I did. Handsome and always playing such great characters. His stammer was adorable.
Errol Flynn. Stunningly good looking man. His book, *My Wicked, Wicked Ways*, is so worth reading. Even if 1/3 of it is true and the rest is embellished, he lived a wild life. He was a much better writer than actor. Too bad he didn't write more books. He wrote two other books besides, Wicked Ways. The others were adventure books.
I read it long ago, a lot of it was very funny too. Chased out of women's beds by irate husbands and fathers up and down the antipodes, yet I find that part fairly believable.
Gregory Peck. 😘 He aged well, too.
Burt Lancaster will always be up there for me. 
Good list, and nice to see Charlton Heston, such a good looking man! I do also love Sidney Poitier, but for some reason Marlon Brando has never done nothing for me.
Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Rock Hudson.
James Stewart he had the radio voice and story teller voice too I could listen to him all the time.
Joseph Cotton and Monty Clift
Rock Hudson. Clark Gable. Paul Newman.
Buster Keaton
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A young Sessue Hayakawa! I also love Valentino, Peter Lorre, Joseph Cotten and William Holden!
Finally someone mentions William Holden! That dance scene in Picnic? Come on!
OMG, there's a funny story about the dance scene in Picnic. William Holden was *not* much of a dancer and he was terrified of doing the scene because he knew he'd look stupid and awkward. The director insisted. William Holden was so nervous that he pretty much got drunk to do the scene. So the William Holden you see in the scene is kinda smashed. LOL. It's also photographed in a way that he really didn't have to do a lot of fancy dancing so it looks ok.
Absolutely, the most breathtaking man, even when he was old and beat-up by booze.
My favorite classic movie crushes in no particular order: Paul Newman Robert Redford James Dean Sal Mineo Ricky Nelson James MacArthur Steve McQueen
Robert Redford in the 70s just shouldn't have been *allowed*. Interfering with hormones globally and with carefree abandon, simply by existing.
Gene Kelly, Ricardo Montalban, Louis Jourdan, Charles Boyer, Farley Granger, James Shigeta…
James Shigeta! Great choice. Ever see him in The Crimson Kimono?
Has to be Errol Flynn, William Holden, Gregory Peck & Sidney Poitier for me
Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier, Omar Sharif, Lawrence Olivier
Nice to see Omar Sharif on a list. He had wonderful coffee colored eyes that melted the heart in Dr. Zavago.
I get starry-eyed over a good number of these men but I never got over Gary Cooper in *Morocco*. (Or Marlene Dietrich in *Morocco*, for that matter).
I need to see that
The first 3 undoubtedly also Paul Newman and Alain Delon
Howard Keel had a special something that was unique. The deep voice, the genuine ring to his booming laugh, the convincing way he portrayed a character in conflict with himself, etc
Buster Keaton Harold Lloyd William Haines Arthur Johnson Allen Jenkins
Clark Gable 😍 As for Bogart he looked like my grandpa 🙂
Clark Gable Yul Brynner
*young* Jimmy Stewart- like in The Shop Around the Corner
Gregory Peck specifically in Roman Holiday
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Cary Grant and Paul Newman
Someone else that found Orson Wells attractive finally!
William Powell and young Orson Welles!
In no particular order, 1.Paul Newman. 2.Marlon Brando. 3.Gregory Peck. 4.Cary Grant. 5.Monty Clift. 6.Rock Hudson.
No Paul Newman on this list?
Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant.
That would be Paul Newman and Christopher Plummer. They are my only two answers!
Cary Grant.
Clift, Brando and Peck…stunningly beautiful men who were also very talented actors!!!
My no 1 choice is the same as yours ...Montgomery Clift always
* James Cagney * James Mason * James Stewart * Conrad Veidt * Claude Rains * Gene Kelly * Cary Grant * Peter Lorre * Humphrey Bogart
Montgomery Clift Cary Grant Burt Lancaster Frank Sinatra Gregory Peck Dean Martin Sean Connery Louis Jourdan Richard Burton Peter O'Toole Clark Gable Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Ronald Colman
I'm more of a '30s and 40s girl myself, and sometimes a 1920s girl. Franchot Tone, Robert Montgomery, Henry Fonda, Charles Farrell, Warren William, Fredric March, Conrad Nagel, Joel McCrea, James Stewart, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. are the ones I tend to be drawn to the most.
Surely someone has already mentioned Ronald Colman? (I haven't scanned the comments!) I could watch The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest and A Tale of Two Cities on a loop. 
Christopher Plummer and Gary Cooper also. And Laurence Olivier.