Petite Pia Zadora

Pia Zadora

(I was going to call this "Pia's Pits," but decided

that sounded coarse somehow.)

Love Leigh

It's always nice when Janet Leigh stops by.

Haunting Hildegard

Hildegard Knef

Furry Women to Keep Us Warm

Life magazine fashion layout from 1952.






You can tell which one is my personal favorite.
(Do we have great taste in brunettes or what?)
For those of you who are thinking about trying
this on your own blog, the Google Image Search
word string is "furs 1952 source:life" Enjoy!

[And, just to be fair all around, here are some links to PETA and the International Anti-Fur Coalition and Furry Girls (NSFW) and Furry Guys (NSFW) and Flying Furry Women (NSFW). That should just about cover it.]

The Boss's Wife

Me, I really don't have much use for Norma Shearer. I don't like most of her movies. I don't like a huge majority of her still photographs. Joan Crawford didn't like her either, but then Joan didn't like a lot of females. And Joan got stuck with some roles that Norma didn't want. And Bette Davis called Joan Crawford "that mannequin from MGM." And both Bette and Joan had daughters who crucified them in tell-all books. And the Hollywood queen nastiness goes on and on. Anyway, I'm reading Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of MGM by Mark A. Vieira, which is a pretty good read and features a lot of flattering photographs of Norma, because she was, of course, Mrs. Irving Thalberg. And great Hollywood photographers, like George Hurrell and Clarence Sinclair Bull, were somehow able to make Irving's wife presentable and even alluring. So here are a few Norma Shearer photographs that I dislike the least. And there are a ton more at Divas - The Site.

(And we don't need any huge debate about the possessive boss' vs boss's in the post title here, because you can do it either way, and, well, I don't really care. If ya really wanna complain, you can whine about all the sentence fragments. And run-ons. And. What. Ever.)

Rita Moreno's Fabulous Framework

Rita Moreno









(I was going to call this "Rita Moreno's Remarkable
Rump," but then I realized how recently we had done
a Rump post.)
There's more Rita here.

Hands WAY Up

Happy Birthday, Ava

December 24th is Ava Gardner's birthday. If she were
still here, she'd be partying. Big time. Uh-huh.

Pulchritudinous Pamela Duncan

Wasp-waisted actress Pamela Duncan was in Seven Men From Now (1956), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), The Undead (1957), Girls, Girls, Girls (1962), and a lot of television. There are very few decent pictures of her online or on eBay. This is the best I could do.

(Yeah, I know "pulchritudinous" was a bit of a stretch.)