If I Were Only Born/Legal When They Looked This Good: My Top 5 Hot Men from the 1960s and 70s

See Mr. McDreamy to the left there? I bet you're not even sure who that is. I know, because I have a thing for those who peaked so gorgeously in the 1960s and 1970s.

I'm not sure what it is.  Maybe I love the unattainability of characters from thirty and forty years ago. Maybe I just have a thing for sweet faces caught on analog.  Maybe we're just getting uglier as a species.

Okay, we are so not getting uglier as a species. The present day has some truly beautiful specimens to show for itself. My fetish just happens to be for the boys of yore.

Have you figured out who that man is yet?

That, my friends, is none other than Al Pacino. Yeah, I know. WOW.

Next up:

That is my sweet beloved, Robert Redford. He stills looks damn good at 71, but back then in that sweater? YUM.

I have long had a thing for the delightful man you see above, Patrick McGoohan. I was first introduced to the 1960s television series The Prisoner several years ago, and Patrick's had a place in my little, fetished heart ever since.

Do you SEE that? Oh, boy, do I ever see that. Let's all raise a glass to our young Marlon Brando. Oy.

Yo, check out Paul Newman. I like the mens looking all masculine, squinting into the sun. I think I'm going to have to start leaving my husband out without sunscreen. I am seeing that I will have to leather him up some.

What lovely male of yore gets you steamy? Do share!

Comments

[jamiegp]

Stretch to 1980 and I'll add Richard Gere of American Gigolo (surely he was looking that good 1975 - 1979) -- in case we forgot what got him to being the it guy of Office and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and endless jokes about small pet rodents.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2781911296/tt0080365

[Alyssa]

Steve McQueen. No one was cooler than Steve McQueen.

And in the musical genre I have a little thing for Louis Jourdan. The accent... it gets me.

Also, Cary Grant. Even in the 60s, nay, moreso in the 60s he was a refined specimen of godliness.

[BaltimoreGal]

I still think Paul Newman was looking pretty good up into the 80s, seriously.
Robert DeNiro in the EARLY part of Taxi Driver. Before he becomes a maniac.

[inkypop]

Call me crazy, but Jack Nicholson was sooooooo freaking hot in the 70s. I could watch him and Peter Fonda over and over again in Easy Rider.

I second the Pacino and DeNiro. Hot.

Maybe Dustin Hoffman in the Graduate too...

[amber]

PAUL FREAKIN' NEWMAN. Sigh.

[Candice]

Mmm, ALL good choices (and who wouldn't be able to recognize Al Pacino????).

[Brandi]

Young Marlon Brando! *drool* I vote for Steve McQueen too. And young Clint Eastwood.

[DianaCLT]

Cary Grant, absolutely.

James Dean, duh. ;)

[indycitygirl]

I had the pleasure of serving drinks to Mr.Newman and his dining friend Mr James Gardner(2 bottles of Budweiser,no glasses for these alpha men!!) back in 1995 and they were so frigging awesome upclose I was swooning!!Yes,Paul's famous blue eyes were really that blue!!I like Pacino in his "Serpico" phase sooo hot.If ya want to go back even more hows about Rock Hudson in the 50s??

[rebecca]

one of the reasons i went out with my husband was that he looks like young paul newman. RAWR.

[ozma]

Girl, you picked some winners there. I have decided that Al Pacino now is a different guy than Al Pacino then.

Never been huge on Robert Redford. I'm kinda partial to Peter O'Toole, in spite of an irrational and ferocious hatred for British men. (I think he's Irish, is why.)

Then there's Burt Lancaster. He's associated a bit more with the fifties.

No one ever puts Clint in this period? But the man with no name. Ya gotta love the man with no name.

[Kara]

I will take 1973 Bruce Springsteen, please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild,_the_Innocent_&_the_E_Street_Shuffle

[Yvonne]

I love Al Pacino in the Godfather when he is hiding out in Italy and gets married, the scene at the wedding where he is dancing with his new wife. And Paul Newman, the best of all time, even as he got older.

[DianaCLT]

Ooooh, yes! Rock Hudson was hot!

[BaltimoreGal]

Um, JELLUS!

[Deanna B]

I might be generation hopping. I don't know when they are all from. So my list would be

Clark Gable
Cary Grant
Tony Curtis (sigh... he isn't aging very well. I just saw him a screening of my very favorite movie ever- Some Like it Hot... oh and Operation Petticoat is not only funny it stars both Grant and Curtis)
Steve McQueen

[Mama Lost]

McQueen! A God.

And CLINT! I'd share my poncho with him.

(and, um -- do people seriously not recognize Pacino? That freaks me out)

Mama Lost

[DianaCLT]

Oh yes! Tony Curtis WAS hot! Now? Not so much. Looking more and more like Liberace every day.

James Darren! The original Moondoggie! YUM!

[Heather]

Thank you so very very much for that picture of Robert Redford. That man brightens any day.

[schmutzie]

Pacino's face has done this downward slide that is truly remarkable, and if you are unfamiliar with all but his present face, his younger face can be a little hard to recognize.

[schmutzie]

I am so envious of your brush with those two. Sweet.

[Marika]

I'm surprised nobody has said Gregory Peck yet... am I seriously the only one who thinks he was a hottie?

[schmutzie]

Oh, definitely Gregory Peck. How did I miss him? I think this needs to be a much longer list :)

[Tamara]

I have a *huge* crush on Sean Connery. I think the accent is a big part of that though.

[Cuz_I'm_The_Mom]

All of these guys give me lady wood, especially Paul Newman. Cool Hand INDEED.