Years ago when I first started working in event production for the entertainment industry we teasingly called my girlfriend Carol "Star Slut" because being incredibly beautiful and incredibly outgoing she could easily snare the attention of nearly any given male celebrity around us. One day when we were getting slap-happy with overwork during a charity event I took to writing on a giant whiteboard the names of dead celebrities I thought Carol should have scored with. The list included illustrious, and recently dead, names like Hervé Villechaize and Cesar Romero (in Joker attire bien sûr.)
So, since you all had so much fun last week listing the living celebrities you would sleep with given half a chance, this week I thought we'd play the same game with dead ones! Come on! It's not morbid! You know you've thought about it before.
To get the ball rolling - here's my short list!

Cary Grant - but of course, he's probably on everyone's list. I went to school with his daughter Jennifer and was lucky enough to meet him, although I was far too young to appreciate the moment in it's entirety. There is one episode I remember where all of my schoolmates' mothers were gawking and fainting when he stepped out of the carpool line to flag Jennifer down to get into the car. Even in his seventies he was traffic stopping gorgeous.

Gene Kelly- God that man could sing and dance. Now, this is a decidedly oddball thing to mention, but I always loved the pants he wore in his movies. I'm sure they were a byproduct of the era and the fact that he needed pants he could dance in, but ever since I have wished that they would make them for men today. My husband has the kind of ass that would look great in a pair.

David Niven - he was suave, debonair and the best damn James Bond ever! And really, one of the only men I've ever seen who could pull of a pencil thin moustache.

Ray Milland - He had the classic looks of his era, and that voice. There was something seductively sinister about everything he said. He was perfectly cast in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder.

Rex Harrison - Are you all detecting that I have a bent for suave Englishmen of yesteryear? Not only did I love him in My Fair Lady, but he was just as sinister as Ray Milland in Midnight Lace.

And in the wild card position... Ricky Nelson. I bet you didn't see this coming, did you? I laid in bed and cried all day the day his plane crashed. He was my first crush when he was on Ozzie and Harriet.

And if I was hitting for the other team... Bettie Paige. Make what you will of that!
Okay, now it's your turn!

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JK - It's football Sunday in this house. I can either screw around on OS or do the laundry and some of the work I've been procrastinating all weekend. I choose to screw around with the lot of you :)
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But you hooked me with Bettie Paige. As an amateur photographer, I consider her a goddess.
Rated.
Cary Grant? yup, he'd be on my list. Henry Fonda? God, yes.
The rest....? Requires some thought, on my part. But I can go craaazy, because nobody's gonna get jealous!
Thoth - I wish someone would say that I am too skinny for their taste!
Shiral - Henry Fonda! Yes ma'am!
CK - We may have to fight over him in a few. I love him in all the comedy's and in Suspicion.
So...
1. Cary Grant
2. Sidney Poitier
3. Omar Sharif
4. Peter O'Toole
5. Sean Connery
Jane Mansfield ( The mother of #1 in the other list. How creepy is that)
Audrey Hepburn (especially with the Eliza Doolittle accent)
Greta Garbo ( got have the Swedish massage too)
Clara Bow ( in a flapper costume and I'll wear a Zoot suit)
Rita Hayworth (in this silk outfit http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/hayworth/lifephoto.html)
so we'll add
Steve McQueen
William Holden
and OF COURSE Paul Newman
I could just keep adding and adding and adding......
R. Your titles are great!
Cap'n - it's highly likely... I've always been a bit of a fag hag :)
But maybe Edie Sedgwick, but I'm pretty sure I did at some point. (Or at least a lot of chicks that looked like her.)
Gia for sure. (That's a no brainer.)
Karen Carpenter. (But fat Karen, not skinny Karen.)
Jonny Depp. He's not a girl, he's not dead, and I'm not gay. But I think it's a law or something that he has to be on any celebrity/sex oriented list. (Man, I wish I had that guy's agent.)
Twiggy. (Duhhhh.)
Natalie Wood. I'd trade all of them in for her. (She's the definition of hot. She's like hot with two Ts. Hott. If you dug her up right now she'd still be hotter than most girls that are breathing.)
latethink - I used to live around the corner from Eddie Albert (and I was once babysat by his son.) He had this fabulous garden in his front yard and he would grow all kinds of vegetables. After my grandfather passed away he would come by and leave bouquets of fresh veggies at our gate for my grandmother and we teased my grandmother mercilessly that he was her suitor. He was a bona fide gentleman.
rated for the memories.
Cary Grant - On my list too, he is the definition of suave. Clooney looks more and more like him, and Clooney is, of course, on my living list.
Montgomery Clift - Another sexy bad boy, but I sense he might not have been so great in the bedroom, too tortured? Too gay?!
Paul Newman - No explanation necessary here.
Steve McQueen - To me he is the epitome of cool, a handsome bad boy. That scene in the Thomas Crowne Affair with Faye D. playing chess ranks as one of the sexiest scenes ever. Check mate indeed!
Clark Gable - Just because, well, he's Clark Gable!
Ablonde - I still swoon every time Clark Gable reads Scarlet the riot act.
And remember, they're not really dead if you can still see them on film.
Thumbed for ingeniousness.
I've given away more clothes than most girls will ever own.
My question for years now, has been: How do women not wind up going home with the wrong guy. How do you girls tell them apart from each other in the baseball caps, cargo shorts, t shirts, same damn haircut pack of generic man?
Oh. And I do have that voice. (Like you wouldn't believe.) And it has lead to many women when they meet me to go: "Oh, your not 6' 2", 250lbs. You're 6' and... Wow. Pretty damn skinny."
Oh well. Buy then it's usually too late for them anyway.
Eddie Albert. That would be a cool neighbor.
Janis Joplin (while doing LOTS of tequila body shots!)
Bettie Paige (iamsurly you perv! :D = she was so hot especially the BDSM stuff!)
Sappho (just so I can say I did the first queer poet chick!)
Tallulah Bankhead (one hot tootsie in her day!)
Greta Garbo (Grrrrrrwwwwwrrrr!!!)
Marlene Dietrich (Double Grrrrrrwwwwwrrrr!!!)
Crap! Pretty everybody else I’d do is still alive!
Oh, hell... I'll throw in Harriet Nelson and Donna Reed just so Ricky and you have company!
2. Jeff Buckley
3. Jim Morrison
4. Cary Grant
5. Michael Hutchence (from INXS)
I like the title. I have long thought the vow should be "Till decomposition we do part."
Oliver Reed - frigging hey, in Three Musketeers, he got to me
(which reminds me, I should have said Rutger Hauer in the living list)
Paul Newman
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra (sure he was a skinny guy when he was young...but...he's Frank)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMe1h2lAl4&feature=related
Paul Newman (as in "Cat on a Hot tin Roof"); Marlon Brando (as in " A street car named desire");
;-)
Safe_Bet - Tallulah Bankhead! Nice! I always wanted to be Veronica Lake, but my hair would never play along.
Natalie - you narrowed that down nicely!
littlewillie - you ain't right, but you're right.
Paul - would you be willing to rewrite my vows when my husband and I do our vowel renewal?
cartouche - only you and JK can get away with calling me a beotch unscathed! Mannix! Gawd yes! Telly, when I'm going through a Greek phase (once a decade - they leave scars)
bmc - Glenn Ford - yes!
austin- you're gonna have to duke that out with C.K. Dexter Haven!
spotted - Yes to Jim Morrison and NO! No! no! to Elvis in the one piece rhinestone jumpsuit era!
Hmmmm, 4 more, huh? This is tougher than I thought...I guess Marilyn Monroe, despite being a fairly obvious choice...how about Cleopatra, would that be weird?
Not too sure where else to go...starting to panic...how about Betsy Ross? No! Harriet Tubman? NO! C'mon, that ain't right!
I just don't know where to go with this...I liked Farrah well enough, but was more into some of the other "Angels"...and was never a big Anna Nicole fan...how about Marilyn Chambers, is she dead? I think so. Seems like she provided a certain inspiration when I was younger...
Ooooh, I got #5....How about Cartman's Mom? You know, Mary Kay Bergman...she did a lot of the original South Park voices....Kyle's Mom was a bitch, and Wendy Testaburger was a little young for me...but I'd do Cartman's Mom...
My Love Affair with Javier Bardem
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Tom - it's no fair if you take away my right of rejoinders!
(And you seem awful horny lately - not that I'm complaining)
My husband is feeling pretty bitter that I've been whoring my affections out to the rich and famous rather than giving it up at home.
Ever thought of giving it up to the homeless and infamous?? I will hitchhike to CA for a sure thing.
Rated for the title. Is it Necrophilia to just hump the grave itself?
;)
2) Cyd Charisse
3) Edith Piaf
4) Billie Holiday
5) Ed Harris
It is?
Okay, sorry (walking away clutching her spoon....)
1. Jean Harlow, what a babe. Gone for what close to seventy years and still does it for me.
2. Marlene Deitrich, Yeah, I know, but she still gets to me.
3. Marilyn Monroe, Oddly enough not the younger one who posed for Playboy, the 40 year old one that left too soon. Look at the out take photo's from Somethings Gotta Give. The ones by the pool.
4. Audrey Hepburn, at any point up to death. A timeless beauty that age couldn't change
5. Natalie Wood, i believe were it not for a senseless tragedy that she would have had many of the qualities that put Audrey Hepburn here.
Batting for the other team? Never thought about that much, how about James Dean?
madcelt - nice choices.
whiteandblack and mamoore - you're gonna have to come to an arrangement on Paul.
kipouros - you're dead on with the stereotypes.
Will Someone Feed The Cat? - That question did pop into my mind when I was making the list. He sure was perty.
bobbot - I'm an easy read. I'm not easy, but I'm an easy read. nice list btw...
O'Really - Raoul Julia! Nice choice - funnily enough, that's just kinda what I pictured Antonio's father to look like ;)
Trudge - Now that list runs a broad spectrum!
JK - He's still with us... but I'm sure if you ask nicely he'll play dead for you ;)
Con Chapman - you've got some classic conversational skills there!
BTW, were you the chick Rick James used to sing about????
Writers from the 20's. Wild chicks in beaded flapper drag. Yowza.
Natalie Wood (when she was legal, or almost legal, anyway)
Myrna Loy (with a martini in her hand for me)
Paulette Goddard (in a haunted house)
Tuesday Weld (when she was on Dobie Gillis)
BTW: On behalf of closet necrophiliacs, who didn't know they were ones until reading your blog, I think your title is in good taste.
PS: Are you sure we can't all get arrested for this? If it isn't illegal, it should be.
Definitely Cary Grant
Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart
Paul Newman
and is the guy from that one Bond movie - George Lazenby - still alive?
Patton - it's not illegal, it is morally questionable, but not illegal... unless you get out a shovel.
Blue- nope looks like he's still kickin' so you'll have to wait ;)