At the beginning of one of the most famous dance and music sequences in 
movies, the character who Olivia Newton-John (ONJ) plays in the classic film Grease (Duet with Travolta): Sandy Olsson, has a cigarette dangling from her very attractive lips.
So does that qualify Olivia as a Smokin' Babe? Does Olivia smoke tobacco? No. I really doubt that ! As a cancer survivor and campaigner for cancer awareness, I doubt she would even like the suggestion.
I doubt that she's in film or a photo anywhere with firearms (therefore not an Armed Babe), but I'm not sure. As far as I know she's not been in a SciFi flick with spaceships (therefore not a Space Babe, but maybe some music videos have possibilities in this area (toward the end she has a Barbarella-esque outfit and the sets suggest Space Opera).
However, if Olivia isn't some kind of "babe" then no one ever was.
I agree with Wally about many of his Smokin' Babes, notably Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth, and most especially Hedy Lamarr. However, they aren't of my generation. Olivia, who a few weeks ago had a birthday, was born two years before me. (Since Grease she seems to prefer "younger men," but I'm not available now.)
I've liked Olivia and her music from the time I first heard her sing. That was probably some time in 1973 with Let Me Be There.
I enjoyed her stuff when she was doing Country & Western tunes, though I'm not much of a C&W fan, only liking early Olivia, Willie Nelson and a few other performers. I also really liked her in Grease -- after her "image change," though I thought she was quite sexy even before the "makeover."
However, when I was newly separated from my first wife, paying tons of bills left over from that unsuccessful marriage, living in an apartment with rented furniture and also had a youngster to care for; MTV was relatively new. That's when I really enjoyed Olivia's music videos (from the Totally Hot and Physical albums especially). They kept me company on lonely nights when I had few options but to stay home and watch MTV. I liked them all, but especially I liked this one --
No smoking of tobacco in that, but . . . . smokin' nonetheless . . .
I think I recall envying that rug.
So how about other Music Video Babes ? I invite the other Curvetributors to post some.
Posted by Tom Ender who promises to post more Music Video Babes, both classic and recent, but Olivia was "my first." She's special.
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