Posted in Illustration, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged Bummers, Clean clothes, Knickers on January 22, 2015| 4 Comments »
Posted in Art, Ephemera, Illustration, Models & starlets, Pin-ups, Pinups, The fifties, tagged 1952 Ballyhoo Calendar, Ballyhoo magazine, Gillette “Gil” Elvgren on January 18, 2015| 2 Comments »
Here is a complete 1952 Ballyhoo Calendar illustrated by American master Gillette “Gil” Elvgren, who you probably already know as one of the most important and influential illustrators of his time. If not, biographies of the man abound online, so for more info let your fingers do the walking. Just out of curiosity, a bit of research on Ballyhoo showed it was a humour magazine that existed from 1952 to 1954 and was a re-launch of an earlier publication of the same named that ran from 1931 to 1939. This could be wrong, so if you have better info please let me know.
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Posted in Art, Illustration, Models & starlets, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged Earl MacPherson, Girlie Calendar on January 17, 2015| 4 Comments »
The 1953 Models Sketchbook by Earl MacPherson with advertising for Brookpark Tool & Forge Inc.
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Posted in Actresses, Article, Models & starlets, People, Photography, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged Anita Ekberg, Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, Swedish actresses, Swedish models, Swedish sex symbols on January 11, 2015| 3 Comments »
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was a Swedish actress, model, and sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960), which features a scene of her cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain alongside Marcello Mastroianni.
Early lifeEkberg was born on 29 September 1931, in Malmö, Skåne, the eldest girl and the sixth of eight children. In her teens, she worked as a fashion model. In 1950, Ekberg entered the Miss Malmö competition at her mother’s urging, leading to the Miss Sweden contest which she won. She consequently went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe 1951 title (an unofficial pageant at that time, the pageant became official in 1952) despite speaking little English.
Though she did not win Miss Universe, as one of six finalists she did earn a starlet‘s contract with Universal Studios, as was the rule at the time. In America, Ekberg met Howard Hughes, who at the time was producing films and wanted 
her to change her nose, teeth and name (Hughes said “Ekberg” was too difficult to pronounce). She refused to change her name, saying that if she became famous people would learn to pronounce it, and if she did not become famous it would not matter.
As a starlet at Universal, Ekberg received lessons in drama, elocution, dancing, horseriding and fencing. She appeared briefly in the 1953 Universal films, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Golden Blade. Ekberg skipped many of her drama lessons, restricting herself to horseriding in the Hollywood Hills. Ekberg later admitted she was spoiled by the studio system and played instead of pursuing bigger film roles.
The combination of a colourful private life and physique gave her appeal to gossip magazines such as Confidential and to the new type of men’s magazine that proliferated in the 1950s. She soon became a major 1950s pin-up. In addition, Ekberg participated in publicity stunts. Famously, she admitted that an incident where her dress burst open in the lobby of London’s Berkeley Hotel 
was prearranged with a photographer.
By the mid-1950s, after several modelling jobs, Ekberg finally broke into the film industry. She guest-starred in the short-lived TV series Casablanca (1955) and Private Secretary. She had a small part in the film Blood Alley (1955) starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. She appeared alongside the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy act in Artists and Models (1955) andHollywood or Bust (1956) both for Paramount Pictures. For a while she was publicized as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe.”
Paramount cast her in War and Peace (1956) which was shot in Rome, alongside Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn. Meanwhile, RKO gave the actress her first leading role in Back from Eternity (also 1956). Ekberg featured in five films released during 1956, the last two being Man in the Vault and Zarak. These other 
productions were minor and had a limited impact on her career. In 1957, she starred in the British drama Interpol with Victor Mature and Valerie also in 1957 with Sterling Hayden.
In 1958, she appeared in two high-profile films, where she co-starred with Bob Hope in Paris Holiday and starred with Philip Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee in Screaming Mimi. A European film, Sheba and the Gladiator (1959), followed.
Federico Fellini gave Ekberg her greatest role in La Dolce Vita (1960), in which she played the unattainable “dream woman” of the character played by Marcello Mastroianni. The film has been released in English, French, German and Italian. After this, she accepted a fairly good role in The Dam of the Yellow River in 1960.
She then appeared in Boccaccio ’70 (1962), a film that also featured Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider. Soon thereafter, Ekberg was being considered to play the first Bond girl, Honey Ryder in Dr. No, but the role went to an unknown Ursula Andress. In 1963, Ekberg would go on to costar with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy 4 for Texas. Fellini would call her back for two more films: I clowns (1972), and Intervista (1987), where she played herself in a reunion scene with Mastroianni.
Personal lifeBoth Ekberg’s marriages were to actors. She was married to Anthony Steel from 1956 to 1959 and to Rik Van Nutter from 1963 until their divorce in 1975. In one interview, she said she wished she had a child, but stated the opposite on another occasion.
Ekberg was often outspoken in interviews, naming famous people she couldn’t bear. And she was frequently quoted as saying that it was Fellini who owed his success to her, not the other way around. “They would like to keep up the story that Fellini made me famous, Fellini discovered me,” she said in a 1999 interview with The New York Times.
Ekberg did not live in Sweden after the early 1950s and rarely visited the country. However, she welcomed Swedish journalists into her house outside 
Rome and in 2005 appeared in the popular radio program Sommar, where she talked about her life. She stated in an interview that she would not move back to Sweden before her death since she would be buried there.
On 19 July 2009, she was admitted to the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome after falling ill in her home in Genzano according to a medical official in its neurosurgery department. She had been living in Italy for many years. Despite her condition not being serious, Ekberg was put under observation in the facility.
In December 2011, it was reported that the 80-year-old Ekberg was “destitute” following three months in a hospital with a broken thigh in Rimini, during which her home was robbed and badly damaged in a fire. Ekberg applied for help from the Fellini Foundation, itself in difficult financial straits.
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Posted in Ephemera, Glamour, Models & starlets, Photography, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged 1956, Calendars, Spick and Span magazine on January 5, 2015| 2 Comments »
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1962, Eve Magazine, Girliemags, Glamor models, Maria Clarance on December 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A digital recreation of an article published in Eve magazine No1 from 1962
Angelo Saxons pride themselves on their cultural contributions to the world. The British consider that they are carrying on the tradition of their ancestors by maintaining these standards in all forms of the arts and sciences . Little did we know when we met lovely Maria Clarance in London, that we were going to have to prove that we too are trying to maintain not only a distinct artistic and individual photographic style, but interesting and lively Iiterazy, copy as well. Maria Clarance made these demands of us, and since we wanted to use her services as a model, we were willing to submit to her … request.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Illustration, Models & starlets, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged R Fugetta, Santa on December 20, 2014| 2 Comments »
Posted in Art, Illustration, Pinups, tagged Animators, Bill Presing, Illustrators on December 18, 2014| 2 Comments »
Bill Presing’s work has been recognized by a number of a award committees and institutions. The “LUGZ” commercial spot he illustrated was nominated for an ANNIE award, and his work on the animated opening for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show “won him a prestigious Daytime Emmy award. Bill is the co-creator of “Rex Steele : Nazi Smasher”, a comic book for which he received a nomination for the 2000 IGNATZ award for outstanding artist. Bill Presing is currently a storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studio.
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1968, Doris Darling, Frolic Magazine, Girliemags, Glamour models on December 7, 2014| 2 Comments »
A digital recreation of an article published in Frolic Magazine Vol15 No6 from 1968
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Like the song says, it’s not nice to "call everybody darling," But some girls are just darling, period. They are cute, lovable and cuddly-and real dolls? So what do you call them if not darling? Especially one who is called Darling by darn near every man that she meets-even her college professors!
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Posted in Illustration, Pin-ups, Pinups, tagged Félix Meynet on December 1, 2014| 11 Comments »
Posted in Actresses, Glamour, Models & starlets, People, Photography, Pin-ups, Pinups, The fifties, The sixties, tagged American glamour models, B movie actresses, Jeanne Carmen, Pin-up girls, Trick-shot golfers on November 28, 2014| 4 Comments »
Jeanne Carmen (August 4, 1930 – December 20, 2007) was an American model, pin-up girl, trick-shot golfer, and B movie actress.
Jeanne Laverne Carmen was born in Paragould, Arkansas. As a child she picked cotton before running away from home at age 13. As a teen, she moved to New York City and landed a job as a dancer in Burlesque, with Bert Lahr. Later she became a model, appearing in several men’s magazines. She also became a trick golfer, appearing with Jack Redmond.
While in her 20s, she came to Hollywood and appeared in B movies such as Guns Don’t Argue and The Monster of Piedras Blancas. She played both brassy platinum-blondes and (with her natural dark hair) sultry Spanish women.[Carmen’s smouldering good looks, hourglass figure, and striking green eyes quickly landed her on the big screen in 1956 playing a feisty Spanish senorita named "Serelda" in The Three Outlaws, a Western based on the same events as the laterButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and co-starring Neville Brand and Alan Hale, Jr as Butch and Sundance. She was then cast by producer/director Howard W. Koch as an Indian girl in War Drums alongside Lex Barker of Tarzan fame. Koch took a liking to Carmen and cast her in his next flick for Warner Bros, the teenage rock n roll juvenile delinquent themedUntamed Youth in 1957 co-starring Rockabilly legend Eddie Cochran, which inspired Cochran to cover the song "Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie" for her.
Carmen also appeared as a femme fatale in Portland Exposé alongside Frank Gorshin who later gained fame as the "Riddler" on the Batman series. She also appeared in the Three Stooges short subject A Merry Mix Up playing Joe Besser‘s girlfriend "Mary." The short is notable for the Stooges playing three sets of identical triplets.
In 1998, Carmen was the subject of a TV biography titled "Jeanne Carmen: Queen of the B-Movies", on the series E! True Hollywood Story. The show stated that Carmen maintained a "dangerously close friendship with Marilyn Monroe and The Kennedys" and that after the death of Monroe, Carmen was told to leave town by Chicago mobster Johnny Rosselli who was working for Chicago Mob Boss Sam Giancana. Carmen, believing her life was in danger, fled to Scottsdale, Arizona, where she lived incognito for over a decade. Carmen abandoned her platinum blonde locks, had three children and lived a quiet life, never mentioning her prior life in Hollywood.
Carmen’s last published interview was on November 21, 2007, by SX News, an Australian weekly gay and lesbian newspaper.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Mike and Buff | Princess Jeanne | Episode: "Princess Jeanne" |
| 1953 | Striporama | Venus Beauty | Uncredited |
| 1956 | The Three Outlaws | Serelda | |
| 1957 | War Drums | Yellow Moon | |
| 1957 | A Merry Mix Up | Mary | |
| 1957 | Untamed Youth | Lillibet | |
| 1957 | Portland Exposé | Iris | |
| 1958 | I Married a Woman | Camera Girl | Uncredited |
| 1958 | Too Much, Too Soon | Tassles | Uncredited |
| 1958 | The Millionaire | Mary Evans | Episode: "The Wally Bannister Story" |
| 1958 | 26 Men | Lili Mae Turner | Episode: "The Last Rebellion" |
| 1958 | Born Reckless | Rodeo Girl | |
| 1959 | The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Lucy | |
| 1959 | Riverboat | Janine – Blonde Girl in Stagecoach | Episode: "A Night at Trapper’s Landing" Uncredited |
| 1959 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Blonde Glamour Girl | Episode: "Tiger" Uncredited |
| 1960 | Tightrope | Francie | Episode: "The Chinese Pendant" |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show | Nikki | Episode: "Three Soldiers" |
| 1962 | The Devil’s Hand | The Blonde Cultist | Credited as Jeannie Carman |
| 2005 | The Naked Monster | Mrs. Lipschitz |
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Posted in Models & starlets, Nudes, People, Photography, Pinups, The fifties, The seventies, tagged 1978, 1980, Betty Page, Private Peeks, Vol 1, Vol 4 on November 15, 2014| 13 Comments »
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SO, HER NAME REALLY IS BETTIE PAGE. What could be more suitable for this Betty Boop of the printed page – girlie mags of the 50’s, calendars, record and magazine covers etc. etc.
The dark Marilyn she has been called. Not a particularly profound observation – who could be darker than Marilyn? And, if we stick to the superficial – who could be more cheerful, not to say innocent, in her mischief than Bettie – whether it be swim-suit poses on a public beach or private photo sessions with leather and ropes?
Bettie Page is a woman of integrity, she does not reveal much about what was going on under the surface in this new coffee table book about her life and career, although she has submitted a short preface of her own hand. This is truly a 90’s product, an artifact from this present day, when the paraphernalia of assorted partial sexual drives have become household knowledge. At the same time the book emits the alleged naive charm of easily listenable music and cocktail parties of the 50’s – when cigarettes still were good for you and chronic fatigue syndrome was unheard of – not to mention women’s lib …
A powerful Bettie Page revival is going on right now, that is quite unmistakable. While working on this article, I had only to watch TV for a couple of days to see Bettie’s image flicker by three times: in the George Michael video Fast Love from this year, in the Swedish movie The Summer (“Sommaren”, from 1995), directed by Kristian Petri, and in the John Waters movie Serial Mom from 1994.
Bettie Page never really fit into the stereotype of an American pin-up girl. Her measurements were hardly those of a Jane Mansfield, her lips were to thin, and if you look closely, you may see that she has a slow right eye. There were also something homespun about her bikinis. And they actually were, she designed and sew them herself.
Models came and went in rapid succession at this time. Few of them lasted for more than two or three years. Apart from Bettie, perhaps Diane Webber did. And very few of them appeared in both worlds – over and under the counter.
Text by Karl-Erik Tallmo from The Art Bin
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1968, Frolic Magazine, Girliemags, Glamour models, Sandy Lyden on October 26, 2014| 2 Comments »
Sandy Lyden, a stripper by profession, has become the prize pet of London’s bored businessmen, because of a racy routine in which 
she shows how a Girl Friday could keep an office buzzing all week long!
London where many mini-clubs offer strip acts both day and night, Sandy is one of the daytime disrobers, and she devised this bit as an appetizer to go with businessman’s lunch.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
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Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, tagged Girliemags, Glamour models, Joy Magazine, Sally adams on October 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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Sally Adams, a bookkeeper, lives in lil Ole New Orleans. When we asked her why a girl would choose bookkeeping as a career, she replied "A girl has to work." Work she may have to, but why such a dry subject. She admits that bookkeeping is boring and that is why she does modeling part time.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1962, Eve Magazine, Girliemags, Glamour models, Malena Montero on September 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
So there I was on my way home from the airport. I’d been away for three days at a conference. My mind was now wondering what sort of reception my wife would give me. Yeah, I know, usually it was all love and kisses, something I really looked forward to. But then usually I come home with a small gift for my wife, you know the small surprise they are always waiting for. But this time she was going to get a big surprise for this one was five feet eight inches tall, dark and built like a dream who went by the name of Malena Montero.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason are against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The fifties, tagged 1965, Girliemags, Glamour models, Paula Grant, Tonight Magazine on August 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Paula Grant has enjoyed a featured spot in every show since she started in show business as an exotic dancer, but the big dream of her life has been to appear in shows in Rome, London and Paris. Recently, she had her dream come true when her agent booked her into all three cities, plus appearances in Germany and Madrid.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1962, Barbara Martin, Eve Magazine, Girliemags, Glamour models on July 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A digital recreation of an article published in Eve Magazine Vol1 No1 from 1962
Lovely Barbara Martin is the first of a new crop of starlets to start earning some part time cash renting apartments in the many new housing developments in and around Los Angeles. We called Barbara for a modeling assignment, but she quickly told us she had a part time job and couldn’t leave the apartment.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The sixties, tagged 1962, Eve Magazine, Girliemags, Glamour models, Sheba Britt on July 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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Those of us employed on this publication don’t consider ourselves as odd balls. But lately we have been glancing at one another very surreptitiously. Finally we decided to sit down and figure out why a group of people, such as we, should suddenly become suspicious of one another’s mental balance. We came to the conclusion that it all dated back to the first time that we used Sheba Britt as a model. Read the whole article and see
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Posted in Article, Glamour, Models & starlets, Nudes, People, Pinups, The fifties, tagged 1959, Casanova, Girliemags, Glamour models, Tonight Magazine on June 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »
One of the smartest guys in the woman business was a fellow by the name of Casanova. This is a guy who knocked off so many dames that he was able to fill volumes with stories of his conquests. The reason he was so successful was that he let the dames read his stuff, in other words, Casanova was his own press agent.
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Warning: Nudity do occur in this article. If you are under age or live in a country where watching images of nude women for some reason is against the law I take no responsibility if you click the link above. In other words you’re flying solo from here on – Ted 😉
Posted in Article, Models & starlets, Nudes, Pinups, The seventies, tagged American actresses, Catch-22, Susanne Benton on June 21, 2014| 2 Comments »
Susanne Benton (born February 3, 1948) is an American actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle’s WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). During her early roles she refused to disrobe for her parts, despite the requests of her Universal Studios bosses. She appeared topless in Playboy in the May 1970 issue. In 1972, she appeared in the Andy Griffith film The Strangers in 7A, credited under her birth name, Susanne Hildur. She also used that alias when appearing in Barnaby Jones a year later.
She became convinced at the age of six that she would become a major star. She also believed that she would die before she reached her 28th birthday. She married James A Benton in 1966.
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