History's Hottest Movie Actors

From: Boy Culture

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#29 

John Payne 

(1912—1989) 

This straight-up stud was, in my opinion, a surprisingly a versatile actor, though not as versatile as in real life, where along with being a thespian he was a real estate tycoon and war hero. He wanted to play "James Bond" in the '50s, even owning the rights to one of the novels one year; never happened, but he had good and smart taste. I was blown away to discover that a friend of mine is responsible for that famous image of Payne in the ring with his legs apart, having discovered the original negative and commercializing it. What a hunk of man he was, eh? For me, he typifies the ideal, non-muscle head, masculine build of his era.

The body beautiful

Sexy Sampler

Fair Warning (1937), College Swing (1938), Wings of the Navy (1939), Kid Nightingale (1939), Star Dust (1940), King of the Lumberjacks (1940), The Great Profile (1940), Tin Pan Alley (1940), To the Shores o Tripoli (1942), Iceland (1942), Sentimental Journey (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), The Eagle and the Hawk (1950