LIFE Magazine’s Sexiest Photos Of All Time
Actress Elizabeth Taylor posing in bathing suit on location during filming of motion picture The Night of the Iguana in Mexico. (Time / Getty Images)
Betty Grable models a shirt of her own design while showing off her famous pins in the process. (Time / Getty Images)
Girls play in the ocean in California, the photo was taken as part of a Co Rentmeester essay on the state’s beach life. (Time / Getty Images)
Another shot from Co Rentmeester’s essay on California beach life shows a splashing woman in the sun. (Time / Getty Images)
Actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield lounges on an inflatable raft in a swimming pool surrounded by bottles shaped like bikini-clad versions of herself, Los Angeles, 1957. (Time / Getty Images)
Actor Steve McQueen is photographed at home with wife Neile Adams in 1963. (Time / Getty Images)
US water polo team, circa 1966, L-R, Rick McNair, Alex Rousseau, Chris Humbert and Chris Duplanty. (Time / Getty Images)
Actress Jeanne Crain balancing a huge soap bubble on her index finger as she luxuriates in a bubble bath in scene from the movie Margie. (Time / Getty Images)
Taken in 1954 by Gordon Parks, this image captures garters in their everyday glory, before they had become a true staple of the x-rated wardrobe. (Time / Getty Images)
Brigitte Bardot during filming of the movie En Effeuillant la Marguerite, or ‘Plucking the Petals from the Daisy’. (Time / Getty Images)
Brigitte Bardot on set during filming of Lady and the Puppet. (Time / Getty Images)
New York fashion, 1969. While many of her peers sported Woodstock style, this young lady strides up a city street looking sleek and sophisticated. (Time / Getty Images)
Actor Clint Eastwood is bare-chested and bandaged after a brutal beating scene from Dirty Harry, 1971. (Time / Getty Images)
Actress Raquel Welch in roller derby uniform during filming of The Kansas City Bomber, 1972. (Time / Getty Images)
Jane Fonda in full Barbarella get-up, 1967, is a plastic-encased, gun-toting force to be reckoned with. (Time / Getty Images)
Texan model Suzy Parker lounges in her California apartment for photographer Allan Grant in 1957. (Time / Getty Images)
Faye Dunaway takes in her Oscar win over breakfast and papers at the Beverley Hills Hotel in 1977. (Time / Getty Images)
Actress Rita Hayworth looks stunning – wearing her trademark charming, nonchalant look – in a nightgown in 1941. (Time / Getty Images)
Inimitably sexy Marilyn Monroe outside her home, shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt. (Time / Getty Images)