Times and tastes change. Mae West was once considered pretty hot.
One of Clark Gable's saving graces was that he did not take himself very seriously. My mother told me that one time she saw him in the offices of Columbia Studios in New York. She caught him rinsing out a piece of his dental work in a drinking fountain. He saw her, held up his dental piece, said some to the effect of "America's Sex Symbol" while ha gave her an Alfred E. Neuman smile. Then he laughed.