June in February

Yeah, I realize that a lot of you just can't stand June Allyson, who stole Dick Powell away from Joan Blondell and hawked adult diapers in TV commercials and was pretty annoying in some of her 1940s comedies. Me, I loathe her awful pageboy haircuts from the 1950s and most of her squinty-eyed publicity pictures and the way she ran around like a rabid chipmunk in a lot of her films. But I like this photograph just fine. So...deal with it, okay?
More here.

More Terry Moore

Lots more Moore here.

WWWW

Wild Wild West Women







(1870s costumes with 1960s hair and makeup. Uh-huh.)

Desk Jockeys

More sexy secretary stuff here.

Ewww! Ewww!

March will be Ginger Rogers month at Turner Classic Movies. And it gives me a chance to use a wonderful and sexy Ginger Rogers telephone picture I got from Uncle Sid.

Music To Noir By

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.

Glancing Back at Futureworld

Last night I watched Futureworld (1976) with the lovely Blythe Danner. It was shot among the most modernistic (for 1976) architecture of Houston, Texas, including the Johnson Space Center. A very skinny Peter Fonda plays a goofy-cranky journalist who runs down tunnels and climbs around subterranean steam pipes. Scrumptious Blythe Danner plays a television reporter. Character actor John P. Ryan plays his usual sinister character, a mastermind behind all the (for then state-of-the-art) computery stuff. Arthur Hill, television's Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, plays a nice-guy public relations type. Stuart Margolin, The Rockford Files' "Angel Martin," plays a surprisingly understated Futureworld amusement park maintenance man. With Yul Brynner as The Gunslinger. Yul Brynner is featured prominently in the film's publicity, but he mainly serves as a flashback to Westworld (1973), when the amusement park went all to hell the first time. He also appears in a frankly bizarre dream sequence with bondaged and strapless Blythe. It was his final screen appearance. There is a Futureworld trailer here, a sexy and NSFW video from a completely unrelated Blythe Danner film here, and numerous much more serious reviews of Futureworld here.

Oh so dreamy. . .