#acquanetta

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Acquanetta

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Acquanetta

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Acquanetta, 1944

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Who is the hottest old horror hottie?

Paula Dupree, The Gorilla Girl (Acquanetta)

Van Helsing (Peter Cushing)

Voting ended onNov 4, 2025

Propaganda

Paula Dupree, the Gorilla Girl (Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman)—I think it's very hot how she's Universal's only female monster to get her own franchise and the only one played by a black woman (passing as white, but still) [editor's note: Acquanetta's heritage is pretty unclear, with conflicting stories suggesting indigenous, Black, and Latina roots—op is not necessarily wrong but it's hard to say for sure.]

Van Helsing (Dracula)—Hot sharp-dressed sharp-cheekboned Vampire Hunter Professor. Saves you from the horrors while looking dapper af, also kind and great with kids

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support for your favorite horror hottie. The poll will last three days.

Questions about the bracket? Send me an ask here.

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Paula Dupree:

Van Helsing:

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Portrait of Acquanetta, star of such 1940s horror films as Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, and Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, photographed in the mid 1940's.

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Acquanetta (1921-2004)

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Misconceptions:

You know it occurs to me that in today's world Boris Karloff would as a quarter Indian biracial actor probably be called woke casting? Not that this is a widely known fact. But in regards to him playing such roles as Jekyll and Hyde, Mycroft Holmes and nearly Cagliostro and Bluebeard. Don't believe me? Look at the reaction to actor Rupert Laight as Isaac Newton in Dr Who. Even in some more left-wing circles. It's coming to something when an ethnic actor gets less grief for such casting in the early twentieth century than one in the modern age?

I've also seen him wrongly described as a white actor doing yellow face as Fu Manchu. Not that such portrayals were ever forgivable of course. But another example of the fact that people are quite ignorant of racially mixed actors having had a presence in the history of media. Just look up the name Acquanetta as another example. See image below.

Just a few short words I wanted to get off my chest on the matter. (-;