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Claim to fame: Ellen Michaels is an American model and photographer. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the March 1972 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.Michaels who was getting a degree in elementary education at the time of her pictorial went on to become a successful model for everything from […]
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Eliza Dushku born December 1980 started her career at age 10. Played in This Boys Life, True Lies, Bye Bye Love, and Race the Sun. She is best known as Faith from the TV hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She needed to receive special emancipation to be able to work the long hours as […]
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Rudolph Valentino, was known as, ‘The Latin Lover’ (he was actually Italian), ‘The Great Lover’, ‘The Sheik’, and ‘The Great Lover of the Silver Screen’. Valentino, danced, sang, and acted. The role that shot him to stardom was in, ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’.
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Daryl Hannah was arguably the 80’s bombshell. No one could forget the torn fishnets and precocious sexuality of ‘basic pleasure model” Pris in, ‘Blade Runner’, or how she could manage to make a fish tail sexy in ‘Splash’.
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Thanks to one widely distributed photo, Grable became the predominant pin-up girl for soldiers during World War II. Grable’s legs were famously insured by her studio for $1,000,000. She acted in numerous box office hits co-starring with legends like Marilyn Monroe and Dan Dailey
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Brigitte Bardot was a sex symbol throughout the 1950’s and ’60’s. She became world famous in 1957 with the release of the controversial film, ‘And God Created Woman’. Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle’s 1965 film, ‘Viva Maria!’.
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Lana Turner was nicknamed, ‘The Sweater Girl’ because she could “fill” a sweater better than anyone. During World War II, Turner became a popular pin-up girl. Thanks to her popularity with soldiers she starred in films like, ‘Ziegfeld Girl’ (1941),’Honky Tonk’ (1941), and ‘Johnny Eager’ (1942).
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Rita Hayworth was a professional dancer at only fourteen. She danced in clubs and bars which got her noticed by studio executives. A complete make-over, including plastic surgery transformed her. She was known for her breath taking beauty. Thanks to her pinup photos she quickly became a favourite of soldiers during World War II. When […]
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Fawcett rocketed to fame with her now famous pin-up poster of her in the red bathing suit; the poster sold over 12 million copies. To see how popular she was one only needed to step into any hair salon in America where women where emulating her iconic hairstyle. After ‘Charlie’s Angels’, Fawcett starred in multiple […]
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Sophia Loren, born Sofia Villani Scicolone was born out of wedlock to a poor family. During World War II, she lived in Pozzuoli which was frequently bombed. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin. After that, the family moved to Naples, where they […]
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