Round Britain By Railway Posters – Brighton

Brighton i/ˈbraɪtən/ is a town on the south coast of Great Britain. It makes up most of the city and unitary authority of Brighton and Hove (formed from the previous towns of Brighton, Hove, Portslade and several other villages) . Formerly part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, it remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

The ancient settlement of "Brighthelmstone" dates from before Domesday Book (1086), but it emerged as a health resort featuring sea bathing during the 18th century, was used as a seaside getaway by the Prince Regent, and became a destination for day-trippers from London after the arrival of the railway in 1841. Brighton experienced rapid population growth, reaching a peak of over 160,000 by 1961. Modern Brighton forms part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation stretching along the coast, with a population of around 480,000 inhabitants.

History
In the Domesday Book, Brighton was called Bristelmestune and a rent of 4,000 herring was established. In June 1514 Brighthelmstone was burnt to the ground by French raiders during a war between England and France. Only part of the St Nicholas Church and the street pattern of the area now known as "The Lanes" survived. A 1545 drawing of Brighthelmstone is believed to depict the 1514 raid. During the 1740s and 1750s, Dr Richard Russell of Lewes began prescribing the use of seawater for drinking and bathing at Brighton.

From 1780, development of the Georgian terraces had started and the fishing village became the fashionable resort of Brighton. Growth of the town was further encouraged by the patronage of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) after his first visit in 1783. He spent much of his leisure time in the town and constructed the Royal Pavilion during the early part of his Regency. In this period the modern form of the name Brighton came into common use.

The arrival of the London and Brighton Railway in 1841 brought Brighton within the reach of day-trippers from London. The population grew from around 7,000 in 1801 to over 120,000 by 1901. Many of the major attractions were built during the Victorian era such as the Grand Hotel (1864), the West Pier (1866) and the Palace Pier (1899). Prior to either of these structures the famous Chain Pier was built, to the designs of Captain Samuel Brown. It lasted from 1823 to 1896, and featured in paintings by both Turner and Constable.

Because of boundary changes, the land area of Brighton expanded from 1,640 acres (7 km2) in 1854 to 14,347 acres (58 km2) in 1952. New housing estates were established in the acquired areas including Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Coldean and Whitehawk. The major expansion of 1928 also incorporated the villages of Patcham, Ovingdean and Rottingdean, and much council housing was built in parts of Woodingdean after the Second World War.

Gentrification since then has made Brighton more fashionable again. Recent housing in North Laine, for instance, has been designed in keeping with the area.

In 1997, Brighton and Hove were joined to form the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove, which was granted city status by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the millennium celebrations in 2000.

Brighton is sometimes referred to as London-by-the-sea.

Landmarks
The Royal Pavilion is a former royal palace built as a home for the Prince Regent during the early 19th century, under the direction of the architect John Nash, and is notable for its Indo-Saracenic architecture and Oriental interior. Other Indo-Saracenic buildings in Brighton include the Sassoon Mausoleum, now, with the bodies reburied elsewhere, in use as a chic supper club.

Brighton Marine Palace and Pier (long known as the Palace Pier) opened in 1899. It features a funfair, restaurants and arcade halls.

The West Pier was built in 1866 and is one of only two Grade I listed piers in the United Kingdom. It has been closed since 1975. For some time it was under consideration for restoration, but two fires in 2003, and other setbacks, led to these plans being abandoned. Plans for a new landmark in its place – the i360, a 183 m (600 ft) observation tower designed by London Eye architects Marks Barfield – were announced in June 2006. Plans were approved by the council on 11 October 2006. As of early 2009, construction had yet to begin, but the area has been cordoned off.

Brighton clocktower, built in 1888 for Queen Victoria’s jubilee, stands at the intersection of Brighton’s busiest thoroughfares.

Volk’s Electric Railway runs along the inland edge of the beach from Brighton Pier to Black Rock and Brighton Marina. It was created in 1883 and is the world’s oldest operating electric railway.

The Grand Hotel was built in 1864. The Brighton hotel bombing occurred there. Its nighttime blue lighting is particularly prominent along the foreshore.

The Brighton Wheel opened with some controversy, directly north east of the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier in October 2011 after a previous attempt to locate it in a more central location near the Metropole Hotel, at which time it was to have been the "Brighton O" – a special spokeless design rather than the traditional spoked wheel eventually purchased from its previous home in South Africa.

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Streamlined Scooter Has Turbine Drive

A digital recreation of an article published in Popular Science, April 1946
 

Designer’s dream cycle uses a 4hp engine and gets 60mph. It sports a polished aluminium body and a light tubular frame.

With an eye to the short-trip driver, quick-delivery services, and vacationists, Ray Russell, of Detroit, has designed and built an unconventional motor scooter.His engineering model has been clocked at 60 m.p.h., he says, and gets nearly 60 miles to a gallon of gasoline.

Wheels, motor, and driving mechanism are completely enclosed in a tubular-steel frame that gives protection in case of a spill. All are covered by a light-gauge aluminum body that can be lifted off in 10 minutes for servicing and repairs. When the scooter reaches production, the frame may be tough aluminum alloy. The model shown in the accompanying photos has a 4-hp. engine under the seat connected by a flexible coupling to two oil pumps. A lever controls oil flow through a valve to one or both pumps to provide three speeds. On the rear wheel is a hydraulic motor. The tubing of the frame serves as an oil reservoir, and a 2-gal. gas tank behind the seat contains fuel for 100 miles. Another model is planned with a chain drive and centrifugal clutch. Operation of either chain or hydraulic drive requires no gear shift. Starting is done simply by opening the throttle and stopping by closing the throttle and applying the brakes. The two airplane-type wheels are extremely light magnesium die castings. They use four-ply tires 18″ in diameter that absorb most of the road shock. Russell believes that tires of this type may eliminate the need for springs. An engine-driven generator provides current for the horn, the single sealed-beam headlight, and the taillight. The instrument panel includes a speedometer. A windshield of clear plastic may be attached to the motorcycle handlebars by means of an aluminum frame.

With the motor mounted under the seat, plenty of leg room is provided under the aluminum hood. The rear deck has space for a luggage compartment or goods to be delivered, or it opens up to carry a passenger who will ride on a foam-rubber seat cushion like that in the driver’s seat. No paint finish is planned, for the highly polished aluminum body itself adds to the appearance of the cycle.

Text and images from modernmechanix.com

Original Dixieland And Their Imitators

From my collection of books on practically every subjects retro & vintage

The white jazz band “Original Dixieland” became the rage of New York in 1917 and inspired lots of imitators. Some of them even combined the music with elements of southern carnivals.

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Before you laugh too much, picture the Beatles on the cover of Sergeant Pepper, silly dresses on musicians obviously didn’t get out of fashion that fast – Ted

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Mireille Darc – French Model And Actress

Mireille Darc (French pronunciation: ​[miʁɛj daʁk]; born 15 May 1938) is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon‘s longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1967 film Week End. Darc is a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Early life and career
Born Mireille Aigroz in Toulon, France, she attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts (Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Toulon) in Toulon, and went to Paris in 1959. Her debut came in 1960 in Claude Barma’s La Grande Brétèche. Her first leading role came in 1961 with Jean Prat’s "Hauteclaire." She starred as Christine in Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Le retour du grand blond and alongside Alain Delon in several films: L’Homme pressé, Pouic-Pouic, Les Bons Vivants, Mort d’un pourri, Madly, Jeff, Les Seins de glace, Il était une fois un flic, Borsalino and 2003’s television series Frank Riva.

In the 1980s her career was interrupted by open-heart surgery following a car accident, in which she was seriously injured, and her separation from Alain Delon after fifteen years together. She quit her film career, but returned to television in the 1990s.

In 2006, Jacques Chirac awarded Darc the Légion d’honneur.

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New Glider To Soar With Sails

A ditital recreation of an article published in Modern Mechanix, August 1929

The world’s first sailplane, something new in gliding, has just been constructed by John Demenjoz of Bridgeport, Connecticut. This novel glider represents nearly a year of work. It has a 40-foot wing spread, is 30 feet in length, and altogether weighs less than 600 lbs.

 It has no motor, and is to be propelled by wind only. Mr. Demenjoz is shortly to take his machine to Old Orchard, Me., where he will make it the location for the crucial tests of his new invention.

Original in his idea of making a plane go both ahead and into the air by the use of sails similar to those of a boat, the French inventor has carefully calculated all the requirements of stability, he says, and is confident that with a wind of 20 miles an hour he should be able to fly. He further predicts that he will be able to fly as high as there is any wind. He estimates his craft will attain a speed of 40 miles an hour.

The principle of making sails propel vessels and vehicles other than boats has been widely applied in the past to railway handcars, road wagons, and the like.

To the editors of Modern Mechanics, however, who are watching the forthcoming trials with much interest, it would seem that a more logical way for the application of the sail would be to have a counter sail under the landing carriage to balance the high center of effort of the present mainsail. This could be folded, and unfurled when in flight to add to speed and stability. That is, of course, providing the principles are sound and the glider actually flies. At all odds the inventor is to be complimented for his innovation and for his enterprise.

Text and images found at modernmechanix.com

Scientists and amateurs alike have in their futile attempts to leave the ground provided us with a constant flow of entertainment. Their confident looks and complete, almost religious, belief in their projects brings only one thought to mind: “Jeez, what a pillock” – Ted

José Antonio Guillermo Divito – Illustrator & Cartoonist

José Antonio Guillermo Divito, also known simply as Divito (Buenos Aires, July 16, 1914 – Lajes, Brazil, July 5, 1969) was an illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist and editor who, through his comic illustrations and humor had great influence in the decades from 1940 to 1960. He was the founder and director of the famous magazine Rico Tipo.

Rose Valland – France’s Most Unlikely WWII Spy

Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France.

World War II
Born in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Isère, she was the overseer of the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris at the time of the German occupation of France during World War II. Through the "Special Staff for Pictorial Art" (Sonderstab Bildende Kunst) of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die Besetzen Gebiete (The Reich Leader Rosenberg Institute for the Occupied Territories), or ERR, the Germans began the systematic looting of artworks from museums and private art collections throughout France. They used the Jeu de Paume Museum as to their central storage and sorting depot pending distribution to various persons and places in Germany.

While the Nazi plundering was being carried out, Rose Valland began secretly recording as much as possible of the more than 20,000 pieces of art brought to the Jeu de Paume Museum. Valland kept it secret from the Germans that she understood German. For four years she kept track of where and to whom in Germany the artworks were shipped and risked her life to provide information to the French Resistance and about railroad shipments of art so that they would not mistakenly blow up the trains loaded with France’s priceless treasures. The museum was visited by high-ranking Nazi officials and Valland was there when Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring came on 3 May 1941 to personally select some of the priceless stolen paintings for his own private collection.

A few weeks before the Liberation of Paris, on 1 August 1944, Valland learned that the Germans were planning to ship out five last boxcars full of art, including many of the modern paintings which they had hitherto neglected. She notified her contacts in the Resistance, who prevented the train from leaving Paris. The train was subsequently liberated by the French Army.

Post World War II
Following the liberation of Paris by the Allied Forces, Rose Valland worked as a member of the "Commission for the Recovery of Works of Art" (Commission de Récupération Artistique). Valland was appointed a conservator of the French Musées Nationaux and in 1954 was named Chair of the "Commission for the Protection of Works of Art" (Chef du Service de protection des oeuvres d’art). In 1961, she wrote about her wartime experiences in a book published under the title, Le front de l’art (republished in 1997).

Rose Valland retired in 1968, but continued to work on restitution matters for the French archives. Her valor and dedication resulted in numerous awards from her own and other countries. From the French government she received the Légion d’honneur, was made a Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters and awarded the Médaille de la Résistance. Following its creation in 1951, she would receive the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The United States awarded Valland the Medal of Freedom in 1951.

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This Week’s Softdrink – Shanta

Shasta Beverages is a U.S. soft drink manufacturer, which markets a value-priced soft drink line with a wide variety of soda flavors, under the brand name Shasta Soda. The company name is derived from Mount Shasta and an associated spring.

History

Shasta began as The Shasta Mineral Springs Company in Baltimore, Maryland on December 6, 1889. In 1928 the name was changed to The Shasta Water Company. It produced bottled mineral water from Shasta Springs in Northern California. The water was poured into glass-lined railroad cars and shipped off for local bottling.

In 1931, Shasta produced its first soft drink, a ginger ale. Until the 1950s, the company’s products were mainly mixers for alcoholic drinks, mineral water, club soda, and ginger ale.

Shasta introduced new marketing strategies in the 1950s, which became industry standards: the packaging of soft drinks in cans, the introduction of low calorie soft drinks, and the distribution of cans and bottles directly to grocers through wholesale channels.

By 1960, Shasta was a well-known brand in the western United States. During the 1960s, Shasta was purchased by Consolidated Foods (later known as Sara Lee) and was renamed Shasta Beverages. In 1985, it was acquired by the National Beverage Corp., which also owns the similarly marketed Faygo line of sodas.

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Help Needed
I need your help visitors, both in suggesting sodas and soft drinks from around the world and in giving your opinion on the ones presented if you know the product. And you can start with giving your opinion on the ones posted already or reading what other visitors have written  – Ted

List of Soft drinks and sodas posted already
Visitors soft drinks and sodas suggestions and comments

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Victorian Inventions – Part 6

From “Victorian Inventions” by Leonard De Vries published by American Heritage Press in 1972

Newell’s oscillating sofa, table and couch for vessels presented in 1870

A life on the ocean wave is a tine thing in poetry, but in practice, to those whose stomachs are sensitive to the motion of vessels, it is often a very sorry experience. Many and various remedies, and as many prophylactics as remedies, have been proposed, among which the most efficacious is to stay at home, but the latter, unfortunately cannot always be done. The inventor of the device illustrated has, however, undertaken the task of providing a remedy for sufferings of seasickness. If successful in operation the discomforts of a sea voyage to many will be overcome.

The invention provides the staterooms, cabins, saloons, etc., of vessels with couches, sofas and the like, suspended in such a way as always to maintain a horizontal position, no matter how much the vessel may pitch or roll. The couches are preferably made in a circular form, and suspended on oscillating hangers, the hangers being adjusted on the principle in which the mariner’s compass is suspended to keep it constantly level. The hanging couch may contain a centre table, and other small articles of furniture.

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I feel a strong sense of suspicion simmering, could this contraption really maintain a horizontal position at all times or would it contrary to its intent make even me, who has never been seasick in my life, feel the discomforts of the sea. I suspect it might – Ted

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Thoughts Around Tarzan

It is first when you see the man in a setting like this that it dawns on you what at hilarious concept the stories about Tarzan really is. A grown man in a leopard boxer, still white as skimmed milk after a life in the African wilderness and with a haircut fresh from the barber. The fact that he chooses to wear the silly boxer and nothing else when in a more civilized surroundings does not make the stories any less hilarious – Ted

The Sunday Comic – A Fashion Statement

This Week’s Girliemag Article – A Real, Livin’ Doll – LEILA

No, Deleila isn’t her name, but it’s really her trade! Jenny, who is pictured here is just getting ready to rise and face another new, bright, beautiful day, is a lady barber! So Help Us Tillie the Toiler.

Read the whole article and see
the naughty pictures HERE

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 😉

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Automobile Racing And Speed Records in 13 Short Glimpses

The automobile was hardly invented before man’s hunger for competing created the first automobile races. For a car, the speed was the deciding factor and as early as 1903 daring drivers started to race on the French country roads.

I have posted 13 of V. Hancke’s illustrations of races and speed record attempts from the Danish book “Berømte Biler” (Famous Cars) with a short description of each on a page HERE

Music Genre Glossary I – L

Even the most music interested among us can sometimes get lost in all the different labels music journalists and record companies choose to put on recordings. This glossary may help you find your way in this label jungle. As you can see from the text above here this glossary is from 1979 and as this is a retro blog that works alright for me. Besides, any music styles that has emerged since then is of little interest to me, with the possible exception of neo-classic country. I’m sorry to say that dance, trance, hip-hop, rap and the rest simply don’t do it for me – Ted

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You’ll find I – L HERE

Grand-daddy’s Sauce – Part 5

All posts material: “Sauce” and “Gentleman’s Relish” by Ronnie Barker – Hodder & Stoughton in 1977

I Can’t Stand By And Just Watch Others Suffer

(Words by George Sellars – Music by Archie Wright)

VERSE 1
I mingle a lot with society,
I’m well known by the gentry, you see.
I often go round to Quaglino’s,
and he sometimes comes round to me.
I sat next to a beautiful lady,
when I last went around there to sup.
She was wearing a frightfully low-cut gown,
you could see she was well brought up.
She began to converse rather freely,
her one pleasure, she said, was to cook.
She described what she did with her dumplings,
Till I didn’t know which way to look.
Just then, an itinerant waiter
dropped a large ice-cream right on her chest .
As it slid out of sight she cried "Help me!
It’s freezing! Oh, quick do your best!"

CHORUS
Well I can’t stand by and just watch others suffer.
No, I have to go and try to make amends.
So I held her down by force
and applied hot chocolate sauce
And ever since, we’ve both been bosom friends.

VERSE 2
One night at the club I’d been drinking,
and was staggering home, about three.
Well, l’d missed all the cabs, and decided
it was their turn to try missing me.
As I zig-zagged along the Embankment
(as I said, I’d had several halves).
On the bridge stood the butcher’s young daughter,
I could tell it was her by her calves.
She spoke, in a disjointed fashion,
“All the lights have gone out, of my life,
I know it’s not meet, but there’s so much at stake,
I shall chop out my heart with a knife."
I murmured, "That’s tripe, you’re a chump dear”
(it was the language she best understood) .
She replied, "If I had but the guts, sir,
I’d throw myself into the flood."

CHORUS
Well I can’t stand by and just watch others suffer.
And other peoples’ fear just makes me brave.
So like the dear kind soul I am,
I threw her underneath a tram,
And saved her from a very watery grave!

VERSE 3
As I wandered through a cornfield last September
A couple sat beneath the harvest moon
And I saw the lady cuddling the fellow
Persuading him to have a little spoon;
First he wouldn’t, then he would, and then he didn’t
Then he tried to, and he couldn’t, all the same
Then he wondered if he should or if he shouldn’t,
as he didn’t even know the lady’s name.
Now he finally decided that he oughtn’t.
And he’d always wish he hadn’t, once he had.
Then he asked her, "Is it really that important?"
And she said it was, which petrified the lad.
Well, she lay there, on one elbow, so romantic
and he stood there, undecided, on one leg,
In her eyes I saw a longing that was frantic
Like a cocker-spaniel, sitting up to beg.

CHORUS
Well I can’t stand by and just watch others suffer
It makes me suffer so myself, you see.
So I pushed, and he fell over.
They were married in October,
And they’ve called the baby Cyril after me!

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Retrorambling’s Visitor Service – How Not To Carve A Turkey

A digital recreation of an article published in Hollywood Magazine’s November issue 1935

How To Carve A Turkey

 Sometimes the festive bird  fights back, and when that happens primitive instincts bounce to the surface and a man’s true nature frequently is revealed in the ensuing struggle. fearless Bob Hope took time out from Thanks for the memories to demonstrate the special holds which have won him fame at countless dinner tables.

“Don’t forget to be the first to smile” warns our spirit of thanksgiving
as he moves into position.

Blind Faith

The party spirit

Twinge of doubt

Determination	The hypnotic eye	Brute Strength	Unshakeable poise
Surprise attack	Where’s the referee	Calculating hatred	Touch of madness
Desperation	Frenzy	Gloating triumph	The winnah!

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The Drawback With Supreme Quality

Images and translated text from the Danish edition of  “Fotofaszination – kameras, bilder, fotografen”
by Johan Willsberger.

Rolleiflex and Leica’s leading technical quality and their reputation as top products had its drawbacks. They were scrupulously copied. The Japanese, the Americans, The Frenchmen, the British, The Checks, the Russians, yes even the Germans tried to make a profit on the image of the masters.They even, specially when it comes to Leica even copied them in every detail.

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I’m a bit of a Rolleiflex nut, and got two originals, one from 1952 and one from 1959 plus two Japanese copies – Ted

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Pre-War Classics Of The Road – Part 5

1901 Sunbeam-Mabley

Mr Mabberley Smith was an architect given to designing large houses in the timbered ‘Tudorbethan’ idiom, and who fancied himself as a car designer. His first-and hopefully only-design to reach production was the Sunbeam-Mabley, built between 1901 and 1904 by the Sunbeam cycle company. Powered by a 2 3/4 hp De Dion engine, which drove the centre pair of wheels, the Sunbeam-Mabley was steered by the single wheels fore-and-aft (which were out of line). Altogether, it scuttled along the road like a drunken Victorian sociable settee, and would probably have been better employed as an item of furuiture in one of Mr Mabberley Smith’s houses.

1902 Berna

Joseph Wyss of Berne. Switzerland. built his first Berna cars in 1902. This model was on similar lines to the contemporary De Dion-Bouton. It had a 785cc single-cylinder engine mounted at the rear and three-seater coachwork with a ‘sideways’ front seat. It was no mean achievement to go into production with a motor vehicle in Switzerland, a country in which cars were banned from some cantons and drastically restricted by law in others.

1903 Thornycroft

John I. Thornycroft was a steamlaunch builder on the River Thames who had built an experimental steam carriage in the mid nineteenth century and who later pioneered the steam-powered commercial vehicle. His first venture into petrol vehicles came in 1903 with a range of cars which included this 20hp. fourcylinder model of 3628cc, which was offered with the advanced feature of a belt-driven dynamo to charge the ignition batteries.

1903 Mércèdes 60

‘See the Mercedes, shapeless, unpaintable’ warbled the onelegged Edwardian poet W.E. Henley. However, the Mércèdes car was one of the handsomest vehicles of its day, and one of the fastest. In November 1902, Mercedes introduced their new 60 hp model, with a 9 3/4 litre, four-cylinder, hi-block engine. In the following year, a stripped ’60’ cost over £2000, but offered 70 mph-plus performance at a time when the British speed limit was only 12mph.

Marisa Allasio – Italian Actress

Marisa Allasio (born Maria Luisa Lucia Allasio in Turin on 14 July 1936), is a retired Italian actress of the 1950s. She appeared in nearly twenty pictures between 1952 and 1959.

She left her acting career in 1958, year of her marriage with Count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo (born 2 December 1933, Turin), son of Princess Iolanda di Savoia, first-born of Vittorio Emanuele III and Elena del Montenegro. They had two children: Carlo Giorgio Dmitri Drago Maria Laetitia, dei Conti Calvi di Bergolo (born 1959, Rome) Anda Federica Angelica Maria, dei Conti Calvi di Bergolo (born 1962, Rome).

Filmography
Perdonami!, Mario Costa (1952)
Gli eroi della domenica, Mario Camerini (1953)
Cuore di mamma, Luigi Capuano (1954)
Ballata tragica, Luigi Capuano (1954)
Ragazze d’oggi, Luigi Zampa (1955)
Le diciottenni, Mario Mattoli (1955)
War and Peace, King Vidor (1956)
Maruzzella, Luigi Capuano (1956)
Poveri ma belli, Dino Risi (1957)
Marisa la civetta, Mauro Bolognini (1957)
Camping, Franco Zeffirelli (1957)
Belle ma povere, Dino Risi (1957)
Le schiave di Cartagine, Guido Brignone (1957)
Susanna tutta panna, Steno (1957)
Venezia, la luna e tu, Dino Risi (1958)
Nudi come Dio li creò (Nackt, wie Gott sie schuf),
Hans Schott-Schöbinger (1958)
Carmela è una bambola, Gianni Puccini (1958)
Seven Hills of Rome (Italian title: Arrivederci Roma),
Roy Rowland (1958)

The Mystery Of Josephine Sarah Marcus

In 1976, this image appeared on the cover for the book, I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus collected and edited by Glenn G. Boyer. The supposed scantily-clad woman was of Josephine in her 20s, and based on the popularity of the book, copies of the image were later sold at auction for up to $2,875. In 1994, Western researchers identified discrepancies in the book and began to challenge the authenticity of the manuscript. It was discovered that the risqué cover image was linked to a photogravure titled Kaloma and first published by a novelty company in 1914. It was originally produced as an art print. Kaloma’s popularity continued as she became a pinup during WWI, and appeared after the war on post cards. After discrete airbrushing darkened her peignoir, Kaloma appeared in other popular advertising. There is still a great debate, whether it’s Josephine Earp or not. All I know is, she’s hot, shrouded in mystery and it’s good ol’ American history.

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