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30 October 2022

The 50 most beautiful women of the century!

It's a guilty pleasure. I mean a postcard series like 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw!' (The 50 most beautiful women of the century!) series by P-Magazine was a typically 20th-century fad. But of course, we still like to watch beautiful women and compare the editor's selection with our own preferences, but a series like this is something from another era.

P-Magazine is a former Belgian magazine aimed primarily at a male audience. The magazine started in December 1997 as the successor to the defunct weekly De Nieuwe Panorama. The last paper issue appeared at the beginning of February 2017. The magazine was a Dutch-language weekly (from 2015 a monthly) that covered cars, film, women and games, as well as politics, sociology, science, music and literature. The magazine was best known for its annual 8-week swimming costume special, for which famous Flemish women posed at exotic locations. It also featured more or less well-known female models or persons on the cover every week.

The complete postcard series included several models and TV personalities who were never seen on the screen. So for this post, we selected 13 postcards with beautiful film stars who were popular in the 20th Century.


No. 47: Nastassja Kinski


Nastassja Kinski
Belgian postcard in the series 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw!' by P-Magazine, no. 48. Photo: Davis Factor / Outline.

Beautiful German-born actress Nastassja Kinski (1961) has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess (1979) and parts in Wim Wenders' films Falsche Bewegung/The Wrong Move (1975), Paris, Texas (1984) and In weiter Ferne, so nah!/Faraway, So Close! (1993).

No. 38: Teri Hatcher


Teri Hatcher
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 38. Photo: Michael Grecco /I.D. Press. The October 1996 issue of American film magazine Movieline originally had a cover with this picture of Teri Hatcher wearing nothing but rope wrapped around her. This proved too controversial and a second cover picture (of Hatcher in a dress) was substituted.

American actress, writer, presenter and singer Teri Hatcher (1964) is most known as Lois Lane on the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997), as Paris Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and as Susan Mayer on the TV series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012). For the latter, she won a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a nomination for an Emmy Award.

No. 37: Kate Winslet


Kate Winslet
Belgian postcard in the series 'De mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' by P-Magazine, no. 37. Photo: Sante D'Orazio / Outline.

Vivacious Kate Winslet (1975) is often seen as the best English-speaking film actress of her generation. The English actress and singer was the youngest person to acquire six Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for The Reader (2008).

No. 36: Raquel Welch


Raquel Welch
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 36. Photo: Sygma / VPM.

American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a poster of Welch in a furry prehistoric bikini became an amazing bestseller and catapulted her to stardom.

No. 33: Brooke Shields


Brooke Shields
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 33. Photo: Isabel Snyder / Outline.

Brooke Shields (1965) is an American actress and model. She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century. She continued to model and starred in films like The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981). In 1983, Shields suspended her career as a model to attend Princeton University. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and appeared in minor roles in films and major roles in series like Suddenly Susan (1996-2000), for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, Lipstick Jungle (2008-2009) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2017-2018).

No. 32: Carmen Electra


Carmen Electra
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P magazine, no. 32. Photo: McLaren / Isopress.

Carmen Electra (1972) is an American glamour model and actress, who began her career as a singer. Prince produced her debut record. She later appeared in the television series Baywatch (1997-1998). She made her film debut in the horror comedy American Vampire (1997), and has had roles in multiple parody films. Electra was featured several times as a model in Playboy magazine.

No. 20: Kim Basinger


Kim Basinger
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 20. Photo: Sante D'Orazio / Outline.

American film actress and former top model Kim Basinger (1953) won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in L.A. Confidential (1997). Her other films include Never Say Never Again (1983), Nine ½ Weeks (1986), Batman (1989), and 8 Mile (2002). She was married to actor Alec Baldwin from 1993 to 2001.

No. 17: Michelle Pfeiffer


Michelle Pfeiffer
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 17. Photo: Visages.

American actress and producer Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) was one of the most popular and talented Hollywood actresses of the 1980s and 1990s. Noted for her versatility as a character actress, Pfeiffer has become particularly known for portraying nuanced and unglamorous, emotionally distant women as well as strong female characters with intense sex appeal.

No. 16: Pamela Anderson


Pamela Anderson
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 16. Photo: Lance Staedler / I.D. Press.

Sexy Canadian-American actress and model Pamela Anderson (1967) is best known for the TV series Home Improvement, Baywatch and V.I.P., but the platinum blonde but naturally born brunette also appeared in a dozen of feature films and on a record 14 Playboy covers. Furthermore, she is an international celebrity thanks to her rocky marriages, her animal rights activism and her changing bust sizes.

No. 12: Sharon Stone


Sharon Stone
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 12. Photo: Bettina Reims.

Sharon Stone (1958) is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. With her role in Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct (1992), she became one of the most talked about actresses of the 1990s, earning both admiration and infamy for her on- and off-screen personae. Cast as an ex-prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), she won an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for her work, as well as the general opinion that she was capable of dramatic acting.

No. 7: Demi Moore


Demi Moore
Belgian postcard in the 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' series by P-Magazine, no. 7. Photo: Lance Steadler / Outline.

Demi Moore (1962) is an American actress and film producer who had her breakthrough with the Bratpack film St. Elmo's Fire (1985). By 1995 Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood thanks to such blockbusters as Ghost (1990), A Few Good Men (1992) and Indecent Proposal (1993).

No. 3: Catherine Zeta-Jones


Catherine Zeta-Jones
Belgian postcard in the series 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw!' by P-Magazine, no. 3. Photo: Terry Doyle / Outline.

Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) was typecast as the token pretty girl in British films and therefore relocated to Los Angeles. She established herself in Hollywood with sexy action roles in The Mask of Zorro (1998), Entrapment (1999) and the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003).

No. 1: Cameron Diaz


Cameron Diaz
Belgian postcard in de 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' (The 50 most beautiful women of the century) series by P magazine, no. 1. Photo: Mark Seuger / Outline.

Blue-eyed, natural blonde Cameron Diaz (1972) is a former model and film actress. Her big break arrived in 1994 with the Jim Carrey film The Mask. Roles in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Shrek (2001) – in which she voiced Princess Fiona – solidified her as one of the most bankable Hollywood stars. Her other film credits include hits like Charlie's Angels (2000), Gangs of New York (2003) and In Her Shoes (2005).

Source: Wikipedia (Dutch).

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