I mean, both Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston (and the female leads in Lloyd's other movies, like Bebe Daniels and Mildred Davis) are definitely beautiful people, by any standards! And allegedly, Lloyd's signature glasses were a result of a director (or agent?) telling him he was "too handsome to do comedy."

they aren't dehydrated within an inch of their lives to make their abs stand out like in a modern-day superhero movie

Yeah, that's basically the point of the essay I linked!