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Just when you think you've seen it all -- and just when you were sick of all these damn lists -- comes Film Threat's four-parter on the fifty best breasts (aka boobs, aka ta-tas) in movie history. Now they don't seem to target specific films and characters within those films; this is more of a fifty best breasts in Hollywood history, as the list centers more on the actresses -- the women -- than the roles they've taken on. My favorite part of this list has to do with the fact that they included YouTube clips featuring all of the actresses in their best, well, attire (my personal favorite has to be the clip for Chesty Morgan). Some of the clips are from films, others are these weird stalker-ish montages -- nevertheless, it's all worth a look.

By now you're probably wondering who made their list. Well, noticeably absent is Angelina Jolie (who I would've thrown on there, if only for that ultra-sexy Tomb Raider outfit). Earlier ladies include Mae West, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Jayne Mansfield and the lovely Sophia Loren. We also have a little of Raquel Welch, Tura Santana and Pam Grier. Some more recent ladies include Jennifer Connelly (and yes, they include video of the scene with her riding the horse in Career Opportunities), Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Tilly, Scarlett Johansson and Rosario Dawson (video from her Clerks II dance -- gotta love it!). And of course, how could they leave off those busty animated characters; Jessica Rabbit rounds out the list of fifty.

I should also note that this list was created to help raise awareness for the American Cancer Society, considering it's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So it's all for fun and a good cause; hopefully no one will be offended. That said, I've included the Chesty Morgan video after the jump because, quite frankly, it's all kinds of awesome. Do you agree with their list, or are there breasts women they left out? (Um, I'd like to be first in asking where Salma Hayek, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carla Gugino, Eva Mendes and -- heck -- Lindsay Lohan are, just to name a few ...)

[via Hollywood Elsewhere]

You know I'll use any possible excuse to look for images of Cary Grant. And since today is his birthday -- he was born in 1904 -- a photo was inevitable. I selected this particular photo over some very nice images from His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby that I'll have to find a reason to post later. I figured that most of us remember what Grant looked like in late 1930s and 1940s films, but it's easy to forget the films from the early 1930s, before the iconic Grant we knew started to take root, back when he was a pretty boy playing the love interest for Mae West or Marlene Dietrich.

The above photo is from She Done Him Wrong, a Mae West vehicle from 1933, adapted from her hit Broadway play Diamond Lil. West was a playwright as well as a performer. The plots of her movies are never as memorable as the dialogue, although I enjoyed I'm No Angel, a West film released a year later that also includes Grant. She Done Him Wrong is the film in which West first said "Why don't you come up sometime and see me," which she reused in I'm No Angel, changing it to the now-legendary line, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" She Done Him Wrong was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, but lost to Cavalcade, an adaptation of a Noel Coward play.

Grant isn't onscreen in the two West films often enough to suit me, and it's rumored that he didn't like working with West. By the end of the decade, the Production Code of film self-censorship essentially hobbled West's career, but Grant was just warming up into the onscreen personality we associate with the actor.

The good news is that Universal will release three DVD boxed sets on April 4 as part of a new series called The Glamour Collection: one set each of films starring Carole Lombard, Mae West, and Marlene Dietrich. Nearly all these movies are being released on DVD in the United States for the first time.

The Carole Lombard set contains lesser-known films from her earlier years, when studios tried to bill her as glamorous rather than funny. I'm particularly interested in seeing Hands Across the Table, a 1935 film directed by the underrated Mitchell Leisen that stars Lombard and Fred MacMurray. The Mae West set includes My Little Chickadee with W.C. Fields and the wonderfully witty I'm No Angel with Cary Grant... but not She Done Him Wrong, unfortunately. The Marlene Dietrich collection contains the long-awaited Blonde Venus and Morocco ... but not my beloved A Foreign Affair, perhaps because Universal feels she was less glamorous in 1948 (they'd be wrong).

The bad news is that all of these are two-disc sets; more than one movie on each DVD, no special features apart from theatrical trailers, and probably no opportunity to buy the movies separately. However, each set will cost less than $30. It's cut-rate glamour, but I'm happy these movies are finally making any appearance on DVD at all. The Gary Cooper Collection that Universal released last year as a two-disc set is supposed to be excellent, so hopefully these DVDs will equal that quality level.