The only fly in her ointment was the beauty of the screen sirens.

Left, slinky gowns and chandelier earrings echo the silver screen sirens of the 30's.

"Think of what those big Florida mosquitoes would do to some of our screen sirens," Sinclair said in a campaign address.

For a long time, though a tireless moviegoer in those days, I had no physical response to these screen sirens, but I kept quiet about it.

Today, however, we seem to be entering a phase not unlike the pre-rock era, when screen sirens sang and crooners played priests or high society chaps.

Glam screen sirens like Drew Barrymore know how to strike just the right balance of fresh-faced and elegant whenever they're ready for their close-up.

Indeed, you come to realize the extent to which screen sirens from Marilyn Monroe to Sharon Stone were made possible by the existence of Mae West.

In one of her most notable screen roles, Hayworth played Doña Sol des Muire, the first of many screen sirens.

FEW ACTRESSES have the power to conjure anything like the menacing allure of the 1940's screen sirens.

The boutique was stocked with emblematic Biba products, including raincoats, T-shirts and lipsticks that emulated the venom-drenched shades worn by Hollywood's legendary screen sirens.

However, she remains one of the most iconic women performers in British film history and certainly one of the most enduringly beautiful and remarkable screen sirens to have ever lived.

Whether ravishingly nude or sumptuously overdressed in Nicky Gillibrand's cartoon cabaret costumes, she's a delight to behold, evoking screen sirens from Dietrich to Monroe.

This delightful exhibition tracks the evolution of American fashion, from eighteen-nineties heiresses dressed in House of Worth ball gowns to screen sirens wrapped in Chanel gold lamé.

Mr. Stewart was coursed like a hare by strong-willed screen sirens who found his gentle demeanor inflaming: Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn.

The magazine notes that Rooney Mara looked like "a goth Pippi Longstockings" at a recent Rodarte fashion show while Kate Mara "exudes the glamour of bygone screen sirens."

The "Nudes and Smoke," which Lynch photographed himself, are pure, straightforward seduction, like boudoir portraits of Hollywood screen sirens, wearing nothing but dark lipstick and a veil of smoke from their cigarettes.

Julia Ormond and Irene Jacob, European actresses known principally as screen sirens, have hauntingly traced the shadows in their sexual shimmer in new works by Richard Nelson and David Hare, respectively.

When the dishes were back again in their neat piles on the cupboard shelves, Ricky vanished upstairs, to come trailing down again in a house-coat which she fondly imagined made her look like one of the better-known screen sirens.

He also helped launch famous former screen sirens Jaclyn Jose, Maria Isabel Lopez and Tanya Gomez, and was associated with softdrink beauties: Pepsi Paloma and Sarsi Emmanuel.

"Les Plus Belles Robes du Cinéma" includes 47 costumes created for such screen sirens as Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo by designers from Paul Poiret to Karl Lagerfeld.