tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52395214796146817622024-03-12T18:44:57.073-07:00Legatus' Wargames Ladieslegatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-89216030955162622552020-06-10T07:59:00.003-07:002020-06-10T08:03:56.938-07:00Lockdown Ladies from my Facebook posts: Week Three<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Day 15 Ann-Margret</b><br />
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Here is Ann-Margret in cinema's ultimate baby doll nightie in the Dean Martin Matt Helm film <i>Murderer's Row</i> (1966). Martin was a long time friend of hers. Born Ann-Margret Olsson in Stockholm, she moved to the US when she was five.</div>
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I suspect she may be more well known in the US than in Britain where Las Vegas residency doesn't hold the save profile or cachet here but it was in Las Vegas she got her big break, being a dancer and a singer.</div>
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Early on, when she still had her natural brunette hair colour (above, aged twenty), she was more known as a pop singer and had a number of albums released. She carried on recording for the next four decades.</div>
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She has had a nearly sixty year film career but, other than<i> Murderer's Row</i> I don't think I have seen any of her films!</div>
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<b>Day 16 Dahlia Lavi</b><br />
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Israeli actress Dahlia Lavi (born Lewinbuk, in Palestine) was discovered as a ten year old by Kirk Douglas when he was filming in Israel. As a result of his help she went to study ballet in Stockholm, getting her first film role there.</div>
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After military service she started to appear in a number of European film<span style="font-family: "times";">s and h</span><span style="text-align: left;">er international film career was helped by the fact hat she spoke six languages. </span><span style="font-family: "times";"><i>Lord Jim</i> (1865) was supposed to be her big break in Hollywood but </span>the film flopped and she returned to Europe</div>
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A series of spy films followed, including<i> The Silencers (1966), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Nobody Runs Forever </i>(1968) and Some Girls Do (1969).<br />
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Her last film was the western <i>Catlow</i> (1971) but she went on to have a successful singing career in Germany, returning to TV, there, briefly, in the nineties.<br />
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<b>Day 17 Edwige Fenech</b><br />
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Edwige Fenech was born in Algeria to a Maltese father and a Sicilian mother. She won a beauty contest in France and competed for that country in the Miss Europe competition when she was eighteen.</div>
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She moved to Rome and started appearing in films the same year. Most of her films were in the <i>commedia sexy all'italiana </i>genre and later the <i>giallo</i> horror genre.</div>
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In February 1968 she was the centrefold (above) in the February issue of <i>Playmen, </i>Italy's first monthly men's magazine. She appeared in the magazine many times, as she did in nearly all of Italy's later men's magazines, as well as in film and glamour magazines across Europe.</div>
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Italian men's magazines were less youth obsessed than those in the UK and US and she carried on posing naked well into her late thirties and still looked fantastic.</div>
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Like in most of her films, she was rarely burdened by too many clothes in her magazine appearances. She became one of the most famous actresses in Italy and later a well known personality and chat show host alongside another Lockdown Lovely, Barbara Bouchet.</div>
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I met her once, in Milan, though an aristocratic friend, as we had a friend in common, when I worked in Italy in the late eighties and early nineties. I found her quite charming, although I had no idea who she was at the time as her European fame never really crossed to the English speaking world. </div>
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<b>Day 18 Marie Devereaux</b><br />
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Another lesser known actress today in the impressive shape of English actress and model Marie Devereaux who appeared in the Hammer films <i>The Stranglers of Bombay</i> (1959) ) (from which this still comes) and <i>Brides of Dracula </i>(1960). </div>
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Born Patricia Sutcliffe in North London in 1940, she got into films via modelling; deploying her outrageous teenage figure for photographers like Harrison Marks (t<span style="text-align: left;">he man who invented the term glamour photography) </span>in the late fifties. </div>
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After a number of British films, she travelled to Italy to work as Elizaberth Taylor's stand-in on <i>Cleopatra</i> (1963). She was due to co-star on another epic, <i>Cassandra's Iliad</i>, starring Marlon Brando but the film was never made. It could have made her a star.</div>
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Instead, after <i>Cleopatra </i>she went to Hollywood and did some TV and made two, later, cult films there: <i>Shock Corridor </i>(1963) and <i>The Naked Kiss</i> (1964)</div>
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After this she stopped making films, married an American and brought up a family in the US.</div>
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Still best known for her roles in <i>The Avengers </i>and <i>Goldfinger </i>(1964) Honor Blackman had a more than sixty five year film career, with lots of TV roles as well, the last being in 2015, at the age of 89.</div>
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She started acting lessons at fifteen and had her first film role in 1947. Before this, during WW2 she was a motorcycle dispatch rider for the Home Office (above) and maintained her interest in motorbikes.</div>
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She remains one of the oldest Bond girls and was thirty eight when <i>Goldfinger </i>was made; five years older than Sean Connery at the time. When she was younger she had studied judo, which certainly helped for her <i>The Avengers</i> and <i>Goldfinger</i> roles.</div>
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She appeared as Hera in <i>Jason and the Argonauts </i>(1963) which was filmed during the time she was playing Cathy Gale in<i> The Avengers. </i>She was also in the later Hammer horror <i>To the Devil a Daughter (1976).</i></div>
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Shirley Eaton's golden personification of Jill Masterson in <i>Goldfinger</i> (1964) even got her onto the cover of <i>Life</i> magazine in November 1964. </div>
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Born in Middlesex, she went to a stage school and her first performance was in Benjamin's Britten's <i>Lets's make an opera</i> in 1954. Initially, she was known as a singer more than an actress, although combined the two in variety shows on stage as well as straight films and TV (including the pilot of <i>The Saint</i>).</div>
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Here she is in an on set shot of the balcony of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. This was recreated in the studio and Eaton did not travel to Florida. Some years ago I stayed in the Fontainbleau (or Fountain Blue as the Americans insist on calling it) and had a similar balcony but no golden ladies were in sight (only a Canadian one with a lot of shopping bags).</div>
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<i>Goldfinger </i>actually came towards the end of her career and after making two films for Jess Franco based on the Sax Rohmer character of Sumuru (very much a female Fu Manchu), for which she had dark hair, she decided to stop acting and concentrate on bringing up her family.</div>
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She studied ballet for eight years and wanted to become a ballerina but her figure developed in very un-ballet like ways and she had to give it up. She worked as a model before making her film debut in 1958, at the age of sixteen.</div>
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In 1960, as Miss Rome, she was runner up in the Miss Universe competition (Runner up? Seriously?) but did win the most photogenic prize. Here she is second from the right.</div>
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She beat two hundred other women to get her role as Tatiana Romanova in <i>From Russia with Lov</i>e (1963) including other Lockdown Lovelies, Tania Mallet (later to appear in <i>Goldfinger</i>), Magda Konopka, and Sylva Koscina. <br />
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She is still the youngest actress to play the principal Bond Girl (at twenty-one) and the only Italian actress to play the main Bond Girl. She didn't make a lot of films and retired in 1968 to marry a shipping magnate.</div>
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Again, I counted the number of likes each lady got and tied at 13 was Marie Devereaux and Dahlia Lavi. Also tying were Shirley Eaton and Edwige Fenech on 12 each.<br />
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Julie Ege was born in Norway in 1943 and started working as a model at the age of sixteen. She became Miss Norway in 1962 which helped her profile and in 1967 appeared in her first film in Norway.</div>
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She moved to London and was the <i>Penthouse</i> Pet of the Month for May 1967 (where they called her Julie Edge), still sporting her natural brown hair.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">She also appeared naked in </span><i style="text-align: justify;">King</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> magazine in Italy in 1969 (above). </span><span style="text-align: left;">As a result of this, er, exposure, she came to the attention of the producers of the James Bond film </span><i style="text-align: left;">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i><span style="text-align: left;"> (1969) where she played one of Blofeld's international angels of death</span></span></div>
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She actually didn't appear in that many films in the UK, her next major role being in <i>Up Pompeii </i>(1971) from which our statuesque publicity still comes.<br />
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By this time she had become much blonder, as she would remain, which no doubt helped her get a string of sexy Scandinavian girl roles.<br />
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She appeared in <i>The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins</i> (1971) a supposed comedy with seven (obviously) separate stories. Julie was in the 'gluttony' section and had a nude scene with Leslie Phillips, of all people. This section also featured <i>Penthouse</i> publisher Bob Guccione, playing a photographer.<br />
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She became one of those international dolly-birds of the era and she was always appearing in newspapers like the <i>News of the World</i>, falling out of her clothes, as well as some European magazines.<br />
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I remember one newspaper feature in the early seventies where they stranded her on a desert island where she had to fend for herself, usually without the benefit of clothes (above). I actually cut this picture our of the newspaper at the time.<br />
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After appearing in one of my favourite seventies films, <i>The Final Programme</i> (1974), she went back to Norway and appeared in films and TV there for a number of years. Later she became a nurse</div>
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<b>Day 9 Madeline Smith</b><br />
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Lovely English actress Madeline Smith was working in the trendy store Biba in the sixties when the boss of the store suggested she became a model.</div>
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Modellng soon led to some small parts in films at the age of eighteen. Here she is as a fresh faced eighteen year old at home in Kew.</div>
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But little girls get bigger every day, as Hammer films soon noticed, casting her in <i>Taste the Blood of Dracula</i> in 1969. She later claimed that she never went topless in a film but she was a fibber as she did in <i>The Vampire Lovers</i> (1970), a film made by Hammer to deliberately take advantage of the new 'X' certificate in Britain.</div>
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She had a lesbian sex scene with Ingrid Pitt, in the latter but convent educated Madeline later admitted she was a virgin at the time and had no idea how to simulate arousal.</div>
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Producers got her to strip for a bath scene in <i>Up Pompeii (1971), </i>as featured in the top picture in this section, much to the delight of all my school friends when this was later shown on TV.</div>
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She had a nice line in wide-eyed but big busted innocence in a number of other films and TV shows in the seventies and early eighties, including <i>The Two Ronnies, The Persuaders, Doctor at Large </i>and <i>Jason King</i>. It was comedy she mainly focussed on and appeared on the big screen in <i>Carry on Matron</i> (1972).</div>
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A better actress than many of the other dolly-birds we have featured, she is internationally best known for her appearance in the pre-title sequence of the first Roger Moore Bond,<i> Live and Let Die </i>(1973). She retired in 1985 but in the last few years has had a few more roles.<br />
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One of my mother's favourite TV shows was <i>Upstairs, Downstairs </i>which I endured every week, until a young Lesley-Anne Down joined the cast in 1973 as a very pert nineteen year old.</div>
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I remember a scene where her character was making a saucy film dressed in this fetching nineteen twenties outfit, This perky picture of her in that episode actually appeared in <i>TV Times</i> magazine (I know because I cut it out), which you certainly wouldn't get today.</div>
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She had won several beauty contests and was voted Britain's Most Beautiful Teenager when she was fifteen.</div>
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Before <i>Upstairs Downstairs,</i> she posed for some amateur nude photos for a friend, Peter Douglas (one of Kirk Douglas' sons). She was so nervous at having agreed to pose that she ate constantly beforehand and put on twenty pounds as a result. <i>Mayfair </i>magazine published the pictures without her permission in 1975 on the back of her new fame and a lawsuit soon followed.</div>
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Hammer spotted her early on and as a sixteen year old she had a small role in <i>Countess Dracula </i>(1971). She made a number of fairly well known films, my favourite of which was <i>The First Great Train Robbery</i> (1978) where she wore some very anachronistic but entertaining lingerie.<br />
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The poor reception to her lead role in <i>Sphinx</i> (1981) knocked her career back but gave us some utterly splendid publicity shots which saw her nearly arrested for posing in Egypt in such a way.</div>
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Afterwards, although she did make more films her career was rather more focussed on TV, especially mini-series in the US and I remember a particularly scenery chewing turn in the civil war drama <i>North and South </i>(1985).</div>
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I also remember her in <i>The Last Days of Pompeii</i> (1984) but she then appeared in <i>Dallas</i> and this led to a number of American day time soap operas.</div>
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<b>Day 11 Valerie Leon</b><br />
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She was working in Harrod's department store when she auditioned for a small part in a musical and began working as a chorus girl on stage. This led to film extra work and her first film was the Morecambe and Wise comedy <i>That Riviera Touch </i>(1966) in which she played a girl in a bikini. Interestingly, another of our Lockdown Ladies, Alexandra Bastedo, had an early, uncredited, role in this.</div>
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She was a harem girl in <i>Carry on up the Khyber</i> (1968), the first of six Carry on films she would appear in, with her largest role being in <i>Carry on up the Jungle </i>as a fur clad jungle queen,</div>
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Most of her roles were small ones, such as a hotel receptionist in<i> The Italian Job</i> (1969) and she played another hotel receptionist in<i> The Spy who Loved Me</i> (1977). Sh also appeared in the alternative Bond, <i>Never Say Never Again</i> (1983).</div>
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Her biggest role was in Hammer's <i>Blood from the Mummy's Tomb </i>(1971) in which she played two parts. Her reluctance to strip off effected her further use by Hammer at the time and in British sex comedies of the period which her contemporaries appeared in.</div>
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See did a lot of TV work, including <i>The Persuaders, Special Branch </i>and <i>Space:1999 </i>but mainly appeared in comedy shows.</div>
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For me she is best remembered as the girl from the Hai Karate aftershave TV advertisements which ran every Christmas for seven years in the seventies and provided her with a significant income due to repeat fees.<br />
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<b>Day 12 Gabrielle Drake</b><br />
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British actress Gabrielle Drake was actually born in Lahore, India, where her father was an engineer but the family moved back to Britain when she was eight. Having studied at RADA she began a stage career in the mid sixties.</div>
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She made her first big impact in <i>UFO</i> in 1970 and, despite many other roles, it is this that she is probably still best known for. making a striking entrance in the first episode where she does a semi striptease on Moonbase.</div>
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In the early seventies, unlike Valerie Leon, as mentioned above, she appeared in a number of British sex comedies including <i>Connecting Rooms</i> (1970) where she played an artist's model, as seen in our first picture and above.</div>
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She had a bigger rle in <i>Au Pair Girls</i> (1972) (above) which was directed by Hammer stalwart Val Guest who had directed when<i> Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth</i> (1970) and parts of <i>Casino Royale </i>(1967).</div>
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I first became aware of Miss Agutter when she appeared in the BBC adaption of <i>The Railway Children</i> in 1968 and the family all went to the cinema, unusually for a a non-Bond film, to see the film version, two years later.</div>
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I remember seeing trailers for <i>Logan's Run</i> (1977) at the cinema but didn't see it at the time and really only knew is from all the SF cinema books that were published in the wake of <i>Star Wars </i>and <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i> in 1977. </div>
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She returned to England in the nineties and fitted TV roles around family life and in 2000 appeared in another version of <i>The Railway Children</i>, this time playing the mother. I think the last thing I saw her in was an episode of <i>Poirot </i>from<i> </i>about fifteen years ago.</div>
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Elke Sommer is one of those European actresses whose name you know but you then struggle to remember any of the films she has appeared in. <i>Von Ryan's Express </i>(1965), from which this publicity shot comes, is one of those films that always seemed to be on TV at Christmas but I don't think I have ever seen it.</div>
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For our purposes it was her appearance in the Matt Helm film <i>The Wrecking Crew</i> (1969) that saw her appear as a Lockdown Lady and she appeared in a number of similar spy films in the sixties, including <i>Deadlier than the Male </i>(1967) with Sylva Koscini.<br />
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Most of her work in the seventies was back in European films although she became the highest paid actress to appear in a Carry On film in 1975's <i>Carry on Behind.</i><br />
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Since the eighties she has concentrated more on painting than acting and now lives in Los Angeles. As you can see, she was always happy to pose for revealing photographs for magazines and appeared in <i>Playboy </i>pictorials several times.</div>
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As we are locked down, and because the Old Bat showed symptoms of the Chinese Virus, I hadn't been out of the house for three weeks. To cheer myself up, therefore, I have been featuring a photograph of an actress from the past on my Facebook page every day. Facebook being an organisation run by puritan Americans I am constrained as to the type of photograph I can show but not here. So I shall be posting some slightly more revealing shots of some of the ladies on this blog. Also, in some cases, I could not choose which image to use so here can post some of the alternatives.</div>
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Born Josette Chouleur in Lyon in 1936, the types of parts she played in her short career can be determined by the titles of some of her films: <i>Mannequins of Paris </i>(1956), <i>The Twilight Girls</i> (1957), <i>Mademoiselle Strip Tease</i> (1957) and <i>Soft Skin on Black Silk</i> (1959.<br />
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Following her appearance in <i>Mademoiselle Strip Tease</i> she was featured in a pictorial in the July 1958's <i>Playboy</i>, as part of their ongoing uncoverage of continental actresses at the time.<br />
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Born in Hove, in Sussex, in 1946, she attended Brighton School of Drama and her first film appearance was in 1963. Her final screen appearance was in <i>EastEnders</i>. perhaps surprisingly, in 2009. She was multi-lingual in five languages and even worked as a translator for Number Ten Downing Street.<br />
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Here she is in her 1970 Pirelli Calendar appearance photographed by Francis Giacobetti on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.<br />
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Better known these days as one of the world's most famous interior designers, Anouska Hempel was born an a ship travelling between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand in 1946. Brought up in New Zealand and Australia she moved to the UK when she was sixteen and got her first film part in Hammer's <i>The Kiss of the Vampir</i>e (1963) the following year.<br />
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Here she is as one of the international Bond girls in <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i> (196(). She was also in <i>Department S</i>, <i>UFO</i>, <i>Space 1999, The Persuaders</i> and <i>Carry on at your Convenience </i>(1971).<br />
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Here she is still looking superb in the nineties!<br />
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<b>Day 4 Catherine Schell</b><br />
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Older wargamers will remember her enhancing Callan (1974) (above) and there were pictures of her holding some wargames figures in <i>Military Modelling</i> magazine at the time.<br />
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She was also one of the group of international Bond girls in <i>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</i> (1969), along with Anouska Hempel (above). I also remember her luminously portraying explorer Florence Baker in the BBC's <i>Search for the Nile</i> (1971).<br />
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The producers of <i>Forbidden Planet</i> (1956) made the most of American actress Anne Francis' world class legs, giving her the shortest skirts seen in cinema to that point, a decade before the mini skirt.<br />
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Although <i>Forbidden Planet </i>was her best known film she had a long career, having her Broadway debut at the age of eleven in 1941 and her final TV appearance in 2004.
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For most of the sixties, seventies and eighties she was kept busy with many guest star roles in popular TV shows such as C<i>olombo, The Virginian, The Twighlight Zone, Kung Fu, Dallas, The Invaders</i> and <i>Burke's Law. </i>Her role in the latter earned her a starring role in <i>Honey West</i>, the first eponymous female detective TV show.<br />
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<b><br /></b>Rank starlet Beth Rogan is most famous for her doeskin ensemble (pictured) in one of my favourite Ray Harryhausen films, <i>Mysterious Island</i> (1961). This was made at Shepperton Studios, about a mile from where I lived when I was younger and, indeed, Shepperton village square stood in for Richmond, Virginia in the film.<br />
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Here she is on location at Sa Conca beach near Girona, Spain which also appeared in other Harryhausen films <i>The 3 World's of Gulliver's</i> (1960) and <i>The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad</i> (1958).<br />
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I met her once, at an exhibition of her paintings (she attended Wimbledon Art School) in the Sussex village. Emsworth, where she lived. I only found out who she was when I went back home and looked up her name (Jeni Cassell, at that time) on the internet.<br />
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Our Harryhausen theme continued and our first seven days of Lockdown Lovelies (thanks for the term, Sophie!) ended with English actress, and genre geek goddess, Caroline Munro in my favourite still of her from <i>The Golden Voyage of Sinbad</i> (1973).<br />
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I have already covered Miss Munro extensively on Legatus' Wargames Ladies <a href="https://legatuswargamesladies.blogspot.com/2013/09/caroline-munro.html">here</a>.<br />
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Now, I counted the number of likes each lady got and the clear winner was Caroline Munro with thirteen. Second was Alexandra Bastedo with 11 and joint fourth were Agnès Laurent and Anouska Hempel with ten each!<br />
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<i>Pete Conrad on the Moon November 19th 1969</i></div>
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It is fifty years ago today that astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth men to walk on the Moon. The entire crew of three had a US Navy background but their backup crew, David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin, were all US Air Force (they would later form the Apollo 16 crew). As a typical inter-service prank the back-up crew managed to insert photocopies of pictures of <i>Playboy</i> Playmates into the astronauts’ lunar checklist (see ringed, above), which the back-up crew had to prepare for the mission astronauts. These were a schedule of tasks to be performed on the moonwalks in a three and half inch by three and a half inch ring-bound booklet which were attached to the left wrists of their spacesuits.
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Pete Conrad’s contained, firstly, a picture of Angela Dorian,<i> Playboy</i> Playmate of the Month for September 1967. The caption to the picture in the checklist read ‘Seen any interesting hills & valleys?’ </div>
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Angela Dorian was born Victoria Vettri in New York to Italian immigrant parents. She was already an actress on TV and film, including Yul Brynner Mayan epic <i>Kings of the Sun</i> (1963), when she posed for <i>Playboy, </i>at the age of twenty-two. She lost out on the lead role in Stanley Kubrick’s <i>Lolita </i>(1962). She followed up her 1967 appearance in<i> Playboy</i> by becoming the Playmate of the Year for 1968.<br />
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Best known for her subsequent roles in <i>Rosemary’s Baby</i> (1968) and, especially, the Hammer prehistoric adventure <i>When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth</i> (1970), her career petered out in the early seventies; her last film being the far from epic <i>Invasion of the Bee Girls</i> (1973)</div>
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<i>In court in 2011</i></div>
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In 2011, after having shot her husband in the back at close range (he survived), during an argument, she was charged with attempted voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to nine years in prison. She was released last year.<br />
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The second Playmate in Conrad's check list was Reagan Wilson, Miss October 1967, captioned ‘Preferred tether partner’; referring to a procedure for shared life support in an emergency. <br />
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Californian Wilson was twenty when she posed for <i>Playboy</i> and had also done a little bit of TV acting. She made two films in the early seventies, both heavily featuring her 40 inch bust, before getting married and opening an antique shop with her husband.
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Alan Bean’s first checklist picture was Cynthia Myers, Miss December 1968, with a caption ‘Don’t forget – describe the protuberances’.
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Myers was from Ohio, had just graduated from high school and was still only seventeen when she posed for <i>Playboy. </i> Like all the images used for the checklists the picture came from the<i> 1970 Playboy </i>calendar which had just gone on sale. Paid $5,000 for her shoot she was voted the 10th greatest Playmate of all time in 2000. For two reasons.<br />
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Bean's second checklist Playmate was Leslie Bianchini, Miss January 1969, with a caption of ‘Survey-her activity’ a pun on the Surveyor 3 unmanned lander, which the mission was due to inspect on the surface of the Moon.
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Leslie Bianchini was the daughter of an Illinois turkey farmer but the family moved to San Francisco and <i>Playboy </i>magazine found her conveniently working as a Bunny girl at the Playboy Club in that city. Twenty-one when her pictorial was shot she was a keen horsewoman and she later became a breeder of Arabian horses.<br />
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There is no such thing as perfection, of course, but if I had to design my visually perfect lady (like Arnold Schwarzenegger in <i>Total Recall </i>(1990), perhaps) then I would venture that she would be very close to the lovely Mariam. As one of my friends observed in the past: "He does like them dark and obvious".</div>
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Now I do not like things coming from the Argentine, on the whole, as their government owes me about $75,000 in unpaid fees which I know I will never get. "Forget it, you are British," my not very helpful Argentinian lawyer told me. I do not buy Argentinian wine, therefore, but I am prepared to make an exception for Mariam.<br />
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The fourth issue of Playmen appeared in September 1967 and contained a pictorial on actress Barbara Steele. Born in Birkenhead she studied at the Chelsea Art School, as she planned to become a painter, and then the Sorbonne in Paris.</div>
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Although she had a few small parts in British films at the end of the fifties she made her name in Italian horror films of the sixties, principally<i> Black Sunday</i> (1960), although she also appeared in Hollywood's <i>The Pit and the Pendulum </i>(1961) and then a number of other cult Italian horror films, She also had a part in Federico Fellini's <i>8½</i>. (1963) and Fellini wanted her to appear more in the film but she was contracted to another movie/</div>
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She carried on acting, sporadically, during the sixties and seventies, becoming a cult star. She took ten years off from acting but started to work as a producer, including working on two mini-series I remember watching, the Robert Mitchum WW2 dramas <i>The Winds of War</i> (1983) and <i>War and Remembrance</i> (1988); even winning an Emmy for the latter. More production and acting roles followed, the last of which was in 2016.</div>
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In fact, many copies of this issue were seized by the police and <i>Playmen</i> didn’t risk any more pubic hair on its pages for nearly five years.
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March 1968's issue of <i>Playmen </i>featured a specially shot pictorial of Jill St John by 'Pierluigi' photographed in the home she shared with recent, third husband, the singer, Jack Jones. She was still only 27 at the time and it would be another three years before her slightly annoying but visually impressive appearance in <i>Diamonds are Forever </i>(1971)<br />
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Born Jill Oppenheim, she started acting on radio at six and made her screen debut at nine. She ws put under contract bu Universal at the age of sixteen. Making her name in a string of comedies in the sixties, after a series of earlier 'pretty girl' type roles, she had been nominated for a Golden Globe for <i>Come blow your horn</i> (1963), appearing with Frank Sinatra,<br />
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These are quite revealing shots for an American actress at the time but photographer Pierluigi was one of the top cinema stills photographer of the time and a friend of Frank Sinatra with whom St John had just appeared again. in <i>Tony Rome</i> (1967). Pierluigi Praturlon (1924-1999), to give him his full name (which he never used professionally), after starting as a photo journalist (a shot he took of the reclusive Greta Garbo in Rome in 1947 made his name), began shooting on film sets in Rome in 1949 capturing the glory days of Italian cinema after World War 2.</div>
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Here are a few more outtakes as well. What a very splendid young woman she was. Pierluigi had a reputation for making his sitters feel at ease and catching them in a relaxed manner, He certainly caught St John looking <i>very</i> relaxed and informal in his characteristic reportage style.</div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-87080928601354311942019-04-14T11:10:00.001-07:002019-04-14T13:37:15.721-07:00Anna Gaël for Playmen, November 1967<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today's lady from <i>Playmen </i>is Hungarian actress Anna Gaël (born 1943). She had appeared in her first film in 1962 and made a number of, usually, low budget films in Europe until 1981. She also had several TV appearances, including an episode of <i>The Persuaders </i>in 1971. She appeared in one of my wargaming group at school's favourite WW2 films <i>The Bridge at Remagen</i> (1969), Her choice of role was not always of the highest and she appeared in the notorious, low-budget British SF spy sex 'comedy' <i>Zeta One</i> (1969) with Yutte (<i>Lust for a Vampire</i> (1971)) Stensgaarde, James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtrey, who must have really, really needed the money.</div>
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When <i>Playmen </i>first appeared in June 1967 fully uncovered bare breasts were not permissible but gradually, over the next few months, the magazine sneaked some in, despite regularly having the copies seized by the Italian authorities from newsstands (the government was closely backed by the Vatican who really disapproved). Anna Gaël's pictorial was a real barrier breaker and she was topless in virtually every shot. </div>
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In 1968 she became Viscountess Weymouth, having married English aristocrat Alexander Thynne and since 1992, when his father died, her proper title has been The Most Honourable The Marchioness of Bath. A case of very successful social climbing indeed!</div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-90722615991132513812019-04-08T15:38:00.000-07:002019-04-29T00:48:14.579-07:00Marika Green for Playmen, December 1967<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Much to my surprise my recent Wargames Ladies from Italian magazine <i>Playmen </i>have been very popular so I will feature a few more over the next month or so as my particular friend Angela enjoys their retro sixties style.</div>
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So here, from <i>Playmen</i>'s December 1967 issue, photographed by Giancarlo Botti, we have actress Marika Green, Born in Stockholm in 1943 her father was Swedish and her mother French. </div>
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Her first film role was at the age of 16 in Robert Bresson's <i>Pickpocket </i>(1959). She worked consistently in, mainly French, films and TV from then until the early nineties but her best known role was as one of the three leads in the notorious <i>Emmanuelle</i> (1974).</div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-36379104476701927782019-04-06T09:12:00.001-07:002019-04-28T23:06:13.004-07:00Magda Konopka for Playmen: June1967<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More wargames ladies cry, well, one or two people and both ladies themselves at that. So here from Italian men's magazine <i>Playmen,</i> is magnificent Polish actress Magda Knopoka, who is best known for being one of the trio of cavegirls in Hammer's <i>When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth </i>(1970), </div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-56117766333446659792019-04-05T09:53:00.002-07:002019-04-11T17:49:03.391-07:00Giovanna Ralli for Playboy Italia 1978<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is Giovannia Ralli, lead actress of the Blake Edwards film <i>What did you do in the war, Daddy? </i>(1966). She appeared in <i>Playboy</i> Italia's February 1976 issue at the age of 41. Italian men's magazines were not so youth fixated as ones in the UK and America and often featured ladies in their thirties and forties.</div>
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It is back just over a hundred years for this festive filly with her load of mistletoe by Austrian artist Raphael Kirchner (1876-1917). Kirchner produced some of the earliest pin up paintings, many of which were produced as postcards and were popular with troops during the Great War. He was a direct influence on Alberto Vargas who went on to produce famous pinups for<i><span> </span>Esquire</i><span> </span>and<span> </span><i>Playboy.</i></div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-15820416976223647672017-10-31T02:07:00.000-07:002017-10-31T02:07:20.062-07:00Halloween witches by Angus McBride<br />
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Given it's Halloween today it seems like a good opportunity to post this cartoon by Angus McBride of a pair of witches discussing familiars. The left hand witch obviously thinking that she would like to get familiar with the right hand witch's familiar. As ever with McBride, bags of character in the faces. It first appeared in Mayfair Magazine, Volume 8 Number 10 (October 1973).legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-81973293483737740282017-06-03T10:20:00.000-07:002017-06-03T12:41:53.482-07:00Molly Peters 1942-2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Like many people in Britain in the sixties and seventies, the only time my family went to the cinema in a year was when the annual (as they then were) James Bond film was released. I remember a few others that actually got me to the cinema. I remember going to <i>Carry on Cowboy</i> (1965),<i> 2001: A Space Odyssey </i>(1968),<i> One Million Years BC </i>(1966), <i>Thunderbird 6 </i>(1968)<i> </i>(I missed <i>Thunderbirds are Go </i>(1966), which we were due to go to but I was dangerously ill in hospital - as my sister says: 'when you were small you were always basically just on the brink of death' - to which there is some truth<i>), The Jungle Book</i> (1967), <i>The Battle of Britain </i>(1969)<i> </i>and<i> Waterloo </i>(1970).<i> </i>Most of these films, as you can imagine, I was mainly taken too by my father but the Bond films were <i>family</i> outings. Given the amount of implied sex and violence this is rather odd, in retrospect, and now I find it strange, when going to see a Bond at the cinema to see parents with children who are really too young to attend. </div>
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<i>Thunderball </i>(1966) was, the last James Bond film I <i>didn't </i>see at the cinema. <i>You Only Live Twice </i>(1967) was the first one, as I mentioned in <a href="http://legatuswargamesarmies.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-james-bond-films-of-sir-roger-moore.html">my post</a> on the Bond films of Roger Moore, recently. My mother and father went to see <i>Thunderball</i> and I remember my mother telling me it was the best one so far (discuss). So I never saw Molly Peters, who died this week, playing therapist Patricia Fearing on the big screen in <i>Thunderball</i>, although I would, no doubt, have been as immune to her charms as I was to Raquel Welch's in <i>One Million Years BC. </i></div>
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I had to wait a long time to see<i> Thunderball </i>as ITV didn't acquire the British TV rights (for £850,000) of the first six Bond films until 1974 and these were then first shown between 1975 and 1977. By 1976, however, I was well aware of Miss Peters' charms when I first saw the (pan and scan) film on TV.</div>
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In fact, there was rather too much of Miss Peters' charms on display for the British Board of Film Censors who objected to no less than 32 items in <i>Thunderball </i>and indicated that if it wasn't cut it would be given an 'X' certificate, The scene where Peters gets her naked back massaged by Connery using a mink glove was cut from the British theatrical release, although it was restored for the later video and DVD release.</div>
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What did remain, however, was the scene where, after rescuing Bond from a sabotaged back stretching machine, Bond pushes Peters' character into the Turkish bath (despite her saying 'no' -sorry, feminists) and strips her clothes off. Miss Peters' naked back is clearly visible through the steamed up window. However mild it seems today, it was the first nude love scene in a Bond film. which was Peters' claim to cinematic immortality.</div>
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Peters was a model when she appeared as an extra in <i>The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders </i>(1965) and was spotted by the film's director, Terence Young, who would go on to direct <i>Thunderball </i>the following year. He encouraged her to try out for the part of Patricia Fearing.</div>
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The glove appeared again in a couple of rather more revealing shots which were done for a Bond Girl special in November 1965's<i> Playboy, </i>which also featured an interview with Sean Connery. <i>Playboy </i>had, for many years, a strong association with the Bond producers and this was the first of many pictorials of Bond girls which tied in to new Bond films. It was the top photograph of these which appeared in the magazine.</div>
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Peters was a brunette and only dyed her hair blonde for the role in <i>Thunderball, </i>so any shots of her with blonde hair date after this. Men's magazines were keen to exploit the Bond girl connection, needless to say. Here she is in June 1967's F<i>iesta </i>and on the cover of American magazine <i>Modern Man</i> for May 1966.</div>
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A farmers daughter from Walsham-le-Willows in Suffolk, Peters left home for London as a teenager and worked as a nanny and as a shop assistant. Some of her friends suggested that her 37-24-37 figure would get her a job as a glamour model.</div>
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She soon picked up work in this field and her first appearance was in one of glamour photographer Harrison Marks' (indeed, he is credited with inventing the term 'glamour photography') magazines in late 1962, when she would have been twenty. <br />
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She also posed for photographer Russell Gay, who was the man behind <i>Fiesta</i> and <i>Knave</i> magazines. She appeared under a number of different names, including Carla Houseman, Wanda Wainwright and Joey Milbank. She made a number of short nudist films for Harrison Marks too. <br />
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This illustration appeared in saucy French magazine <i>La Vie Parisienne</i> in 1926. It was the work of Georges Pavis (1886-1977) who sold his first illustrations at the age of nine. He studied at<i> l'École des beaux-arts </i>but was drafted into the army during the Great War, where he was badly injured at Verdun. After the war he provided illustrations for all the main French magazines, as well as books.</div>
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This is an affectionate portrait of Yvonne Aubicque, the mistress of its painter, Irish artist Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), who has several fascinating stories connected to her. Called,<em> Early Morning</em> it is a wonderful evocation of the pleasures of a mistress, as she sits surrounded by domestic detritus that indicates no great desire to leave her bed anytime soon.</div>
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William Orpen was born in Dublin and attended the Metropolitan School of Art there, to which he was admitted at the age of eleven, such was his natural skill. At the age of seventeen he moved to London to attend the Slade School of Art. Catching the attention of John Singer Sargent he rapidly became one of the country's top portrait painters. Although he married and had three children he had a string of mistresses, many of whom modelled for him, despite constant worries about his own unattractiveness (caused, it is said, by overhearing his parents asking themselves why he was so ugly and their other children so attractive!). </div>
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In 1916 Orpen was appointed as an official war artist and carried on in this role after the war, where he was was the official painter of the Versailles treaty signing. While in France, he fell head over heels for Yvonne Aubicque, the daughter of the Mayor of Lille, who he mat met in hospital, when suffering with blood poisoning, where she was working as a Red Cross volunteer. He painted two portraits of her during the war but when he sent the paintings back to Britain he found himself in hot water, as official war artists were only supposed to paint pictures of military subjects. </div>
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<em>The Spy/The Refugee II (1917)</em></div>
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Even worse, he had called his pictures of her "The Spy" and claimed she was a German spy who had been executed by the French, no doubt in order to give it an acceptable "military" provenance. However, the subject of female spies was sensitive at this period as English nurse Edith Cavell had been shot by the Germans for helping allied soldiers to escape and Mata Hari had also just been executed by the French. Orpen found himself facing a court martial and had to confess that the paintings were of his mistress. One of Orpen's friends was Lord Beaverbrook, who was instrumental in preventing the court martial, although Orpen was severely reprimanded and only just hung on to his official war artist role. Orpen changed the name of the pictures to <em>The Refugee</em> and, like his war paintings, they now belong to the Imperial War Museum in London.</div>
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<em>Yvonne Aubicque in 1918</em></div>
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What happened to the lovely Yvonne? She remained as Orpen's mistress for more than ten years; although he usually ran more than one mistress simultaneously. When in France, after the war, he had bought a black Rolls-Royce and hired a sixteen year old called William Grover as his chauffeur. Grover was the son of an English father and a French mother but had been born in France. He immediately took a fancy to Yvonne and she him. You might expect all sorts of problems to follow but when Yvonne stopped being Orpen's mistress he gave her his Rolls-Royce and a large house in Paris. Grover and Yvonne married in 1929. Grover had always been keen on cars and motorcycles and had started to race motorcycles at the age of fifteen. Worried about what his father might think, he used the pseudonym W Williams when he started to race. By 1926 he had graduated to car racing. In 1928 he won the French Grand Prix and in 1929, in a British Racing Green Bugatti, he won the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix. Now known as Grover-Williams he retired from racing to concentrate on business, including working for Bugatti and running a kennel where Yvonne bred Highland Terriers which she successfully showed at Crufts dog show, eventually becoming a judge there. They were a wealthy couple and, apparently, good dancers, winning several competitions.<br />
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With the German invasion of France Grover-Williams fled to Britain where, because of his fluency in both French and English, he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive where he was trained at their wartime base, the home of Lord Montague, Beaulieu in Hampshire, now, coincidentally, the site of the National Motor Museum. Grover-Williams was dropped into France, with no contacts or support on the ground, and was instructed to set up a new resistance network in Paris, as the previous one had been compromised. Yvonne moved back to Paris as well, although she lived in their house in Rue Weber while he lived in a separate apartment. He recruited two former fellow racing drivers and they began sabotage work, principally at the Citroen factory. In August 1943 Grover-Williams was captured by the Germans as their network had been compromised and it was believed that he was interrogated by the Gestapo and shot almost immediately.</div>
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However, in the 1990's a different story emerged. It looked as if Grover-Williams survived and was taken to a prison camp in Poland. It then appears that he joined MI6 after the war. Even more strangely, in 1948 a man called George Tambal turned up at Yvonne's house in Evreux and moved in with her. She introduced him as her cousin but the locals thought they acted more like lovers. He claimed to have arrived from America via Uganda, bringing animals for the depleted zoos of Europe. Grover-Williams, it should be noted, had family in America and a sister in Uganda. Also, amazingly, Tambal's date of birth was exactly the same as Grover-Willams'. Tambal was very knowledgeable about motor cars and bore the scars of a beating around the head. </div>
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No-one has ever proved it conclusively but it looks like Grover-Williams survived the war, joined MI6 (MI6 have admitted they know what happened to Grover-Willams but they won't say what) and then rejoined his wife in Evreux. She died in 1973 and Tambal/Grover-Williams was killed in 1983, at the age of eighty, having been knocked off his bicycle by a car, ironically, driven by a German tourist.</div>
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So called because of the cheap wood pulp paper on which they were printed, pulp magazines flourished in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century until the late fifties. Typically, as the case with <i>Saucy Movie Tales</i>, they were 128 pages long and were in a 7" by 10" format. <br />
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The interior illustrations included bare bottoms and bare breasts but no pubic hair, of course, as that would have been classed as obscene, rather than saucy. In <i>Saucy Movie Tale</i>s stories there were, of course, the perils of the casting couch, innocent ingenues and even rape. Some were comic and some merged with detective or even supernatural type stories. </div>
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Romanian born publisher Harry Donenfield was the man behind <i>Saucy Movie Tales, Pep Stories</i>, <i>Saucy Stories </i>and others, Norman Saunders had been working for another publisher, Fawcett, in Chicago, before moving to New York and Donenfield's magazines. <br />
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Agnès Laurent (1936-2010) was a lovely French actress who I remember as appearing in the title character in the British comedy <i>A French Mistre</i>ss (1960), which I saw at an impressionable age.</div>
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Laurent made mostly French language films and by the time of her memorable turn in <i>A French Mistress</i> was getting towards the end of her short career.</div>
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After <i>A French Mistress, </i>she appeared in <i>Mary had a little... </i>(1961) regarded as the first British sex comedy, although, of course it had no sex and very little comedy. <br />
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To save on special effects once shrunk Laurent remains inert, like a doll and is played mostly by...a doll. At the end of the film the scientist's jealous fiancee throws shrunken/doll Laurent into the sea where the water and salt reconstitutes her into her full sized form once more. </div>
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In these, for the time, rather racy publicity shots Laurent gambols in the sea with the actor who plays the scientist and the doll who plays her.<br />
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It's that time of year again when we need another sexy witch, so here is one by American pin-up artist Ren Wicks from 1964. As you can see this particular witch disguises herself as an old crone whereas in reality she is a fetching redhead.</div>
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Well, the Legatus has done quite a lot of things in his fifty-six years but given the surprise expressed by my Foreign Office friend the other day that I hadn't been to a rugby match it got me thinking about some of the other things I have never done (there will be nothing to do with interaction with ladies in this post, you will be pleased to know, as I have done <i>everything</i> in that area).</div>
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Now this is a key pillar of British (do they play cricket in Scotland or are all the pitches marred by caber impact craters) cultural history, so I should be in favour of it but, again, it is stupefyingly dull. I have been invited to a couple of Test matches (in the UK and Bombay) but I turned them down. I went to the Oval for a conference earlier this year and even the sight of the pitch made me start to doze off. </div>
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As I get older I am getting more and more resistant to the thump, thump, thump of modern music which seems to pervade Britain. I am amazed, when watching the Eggheads quiz on TV, how almost none of the contestants can answer basic questions on classical music. Do they not realise that pop music is all low grade, commercial juvenilia?</div>
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Not once. Ever. Not even been tempted to try. They are just disgusting. Sophie has been known to smoke a cigar, occasionally and, oddly, I don't find that smell to be as offensive as cigarette smoke. Wouldn't want to try one, though. There are enough things that can go wrong with your body without significantly adding to the risk.</div>
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Not the shop where third rate celebrities pretend to buy disgusting looking frozen desserts (although I haven't been there since it was called Bejam) but the country. I haven't been to Cyprus, Bosnia, Montengro, or Macedonia either but the one European country I have no desire to visit is Iceland. It's basically Mordor. A dark, grim, treeless nation inhabited by puffin eating cod snatchers in dubious sweaters who can't keep their volcanoes, fishermen or investors under control. Britain's new enemy in Europe. </div>
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A slight rider, here. I <i>have</i> danced (if you can call it that) on New Years Eve 1975, at Brasenose College Ball in 1980 and in the bar of the Reval Hotel in Lithuania with Swedish Anna (who I had just met) in 2006. I was very drunk on all three occasions. The thought of going somewhere with the sole purpose of dancing would be horrific. I don't enjoy dancing and, am very suspicious of men who do. As my father used to say:<i> "dancing is for women, children, homosexuals and black people". </i> Dancing is ridiculous and you look ridiculous doing it unless you are very, very well trained. Although I love <i>Strictly Come Dancing, </i>dancing is, fundamentally, about showing off and there is nothing worse than a show off!
Fortunately, dancing in 1975, when I first tentatively did some with a girl called Debbie on New Years Eve seemed to involve gently jiggling up and down with your arms bent and your hands held up at shoulder level. Then came <i>Saturday Night Fever </i>which<i> </i>encouraged show offs all over the planet and, from then on, made dancing, particularly for men, an embarrassing minefield I couldn't then (as I still can't) understand why dancing was supposed to be <i>fun</i>; it was totally ghastly.<br />
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It is often said (usually by people on <i>Strictly Come Dancing</i>, for example) that a<i>nyone </i>can dance but I actually don't agree with this. I think dancing is an innate ability, like being musical, having ability in languages, being good at maths or drawing. While you can improve a little through teaching, if you don't have that basic ability nothing that anyone does for you can help. It is best just to acknowledge your limitations, therefore! If you are no good at something you should not do it!<br />
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So,there are my thirty things in life I have no intention of trying!</div>
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It's slightly shocking to realise that it is just over nine years since the death of Angus McBride, whose wonderful illustrations graced more than 60 Osprey books (more if you count compilations) over the years. I am sure that many of us bought some of them simply for the illustrations, having no intention of collecting armies for the period in question. </div>
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I first became aware of McBride's illustrations in the sixties when his pictures regularly appeared in <i>Look and Learn</i> magazine. His first work for Osprey was in 1975 but just before this he did a series of illustrations, cartoons and even a comic strip for <i>Mayfair </i>Magazine. I have posted two of these paintings before (above), which appeared towards the end of his time working for <i>Mayfair </i>and appeared in the October 1975 issue. The top one was an illustration to a story and the bottom one was a cartoon.</div>
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The first illustration of his I can find in <i>Mayfair</i> is one for a story<i> </i>and<i> </i>dates from their June 1974 issue. It demonstrates the wonderful detail he put into his pictures: The damp parts of the tub where the water has run down to pool on the floor, the cat and dog facing off, the discarded stockings, the wonderful lighting provided by the fire and, above all, the expressions on the two figures which tell you everything about their two characters at a glance.</div>
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The next one is a cartoon from two months later; August 1974, This one is the first of several of his <i>Mayfair </i>works which contains a lot of figures and the first one showing pubic hair. Looked at from the perspective of today this is really quite dubious, if not downright disturbing. It seems to say, basically, that if you go through the park, girls, you will be pursued, thrown into the pond and raped by a gang of men (some of whom sport even more dubious Peter Wyngarde mustaches). The fact that the women seem to find this slightly inconvenient rather than terrifying tells you everything about attitudes towards women in the seventies. </div>
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September 1974's offering is just as bad. Here a miracle drug (decades before Viagra) has apparently made all the men in the hospital ward desperately horny. So what should they do? Assault all the nurses, of course! Even here the attention to detail is tremendous, with McBride including a drop of liquid shooting out the top of the hypodermic syringe which appears to be about to be driven into the bottom of a nurse being pinned down on the bed; presumably for having the temerity to wear tights rather than stockings. We hope that McBride didn't think up the subjects of these cartoons himself but was working to a brief provided by someone else. We <i>really </i>hope. </div>
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September 1974's issue eschews assault for a catastrophic picture of hunters falling off a cliff, enabling McBride to illustrate lots of accidentally revealed female skin, including quite a graphic spread legs picture. At least the women here being pawed are being so 'accidentally'.</div>
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This November 1974 story illustration also seems to show a lady being flung to the ground by an ardent suitor but at least this appears to be in the imagination of the male character. The barely concealed pudenda is much bolder than any photo <i>Mayfair </i>would have had in its pictorials as, unlike the other men's magazines in Britain at the time, they did not take part in the ever increasing move to more explicit shots.</div>
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Rounding out the year, in December 1974, we seem to have two young ladies, looking around a stately home, whose clothes have been removed by (presumably) a man hidden inside a suit of armour. At least we have a military element in this one.</div>
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Jumping the two illustrations from January 1975 at the top of this post, we have accusations of impropriety on a frozen pond, showing women of the time getting their own back on a suspected peeping tom. His expression is such that you think there may well be something in the lady's suspicion.<br />
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A pile up on the Helter Skelter for March 1975 and at least no-one is assaulting anyone else. Typical McBride detail in this one being the flying button from the crotch of the central lady's undergarments.</div>
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April 1975's cartoon has a barely dressed lady being threatened by a phallic fireman's hose as the firefighters prepare to give her a good...soaking.</div>
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May's offering is really McBride's most overtly sexual cartoon to date with the lady of the house appreciating her decorator's brushwork. Hopefully, she is voluntarily interacting here. The kicked over mug of tea is a typically clever detail.</div>
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In March 1976 we have, at last, a woman in charge who know what she wants, She is positively primly dressed compared to his other women. This is the last of McBride's <i>Mayfair </i>illustrations. From this point on, having moved to South Africa he would work mainly on Osprey illustrations.<br />
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Such full colour strips were not new in British men's magazines with <i>Penthouse </i>running a strip called <i>Wicked Wanda </i>from 1973 until 1980, which was produced by another Osprey stalwart Ron Embleton. That, however, was a series of ongoing stories. McBride's strip featured the eponymous Adam, an older bearded man, with the strip presenting a different girlfriend every week. Here we have the misadventures of a nymphomaniac cellist. The Legatus had a girlfriend who played the cello when he was at college. She was 6' 3" tall, quite scary and while very friendly was <i>not </i>a nymphomaniac.<br />
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<i>December 1975</i></div>
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<i>January 1975</i></div>
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The fifth and final strip appeared in January 1975 and featured an older lady who, nonetheless was revealing rather more than her predecessors. I don't know why the strip didn't continue; maybe it was stylistically too similar to<i> Carrie,</i> maybe having a male figure in it didn't appeal or maybe it was because McBride had moved to South Africa. Or maybe it was because it was a bit rubbish.</div>
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None of the obituaries of McBride mention his work for <i>Mayfair,</i> even though they cover his other work (such as his Lord of he Rings paintings). Perhaps it is just that much of it is too politically incorrect for today. The seventies really were a different world. It is, at first, quite odd, seeing McBride's distinctive style for these saucy confections, just as the Legatus finds it odd to see some of Don Lawrence's <i>Trigan Empire </i>faces appearing in the adventures of a girl who can't keep her clothes on in <i>Carrie</i>.<br />
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Another day we will look at Ron Embleton's <i>Wicked Wanda, </i>which was<i> </i>a work on an altogether bigger scale.</div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5239521479614681762.post-84961112264558613172016-05-28T05:26:00.000-07:002016-05-28T05:27:38.058-07:00Something for the weekend: 54mm nudes from Mayfair<div style="text-align: justify;">
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As today is International Masturbation Day (no, really, my friend Sophie told me and she lives in Vancouver, so would know) it is time time for another feature from an old <i>Mayfair </i>magazine.</div>
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Here, from September 1976, we have an article on 54mm and 80mm white metal female nude models, designed by Cliff Sanderson. An interesting little article too. All page scans are clickable.</div>
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<i>Painting naked girls makes your hair fall out!</i></div>
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The celebration of All Hallows Eve in the UK has increased enormously over the last decade; driven mainly by manufacturers of plastic tat, supermarkets and confectioners, hoping for a pre-Christmas sales bump. When I was a child it was not marked at all in Britain. Indeed, I remember being invited to a Hallowe'en party in Banff in Canda in 1994 and finding it a very odd idea. After all, we have Guy Fawkes night in the UK, just five days later, which is much better as you get to let off rockets. Sadly, the latter is falling out of fashion in the UK, due to health and safety concerns over the public letting off large amounts of explosives willy nilly (alright, I know that gunpowder is not technically an explosive) and politically correct notions that, for some reason, the burning of effigies of Catholics is not acceptable.</div>
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This painting was by America''s greatest pin-up artist, Gil Elvgren (1914-1980), who for more than forty years produced hundreds of paintings of pretty girls (usually having difficulties in keeping their clothing in order) for calendars and advertisements (especially for Coca-Cola). He was also a fine photographer and shot his own reference pictures, as here.<br />
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Elvgren's model for this painting was, the really rather splendid, Marilyn Hanold (b. 1938) who was <i>Playboy</i>'s Playmate of the Month for June 1959. She was just nineteen when she posed for this shot. She had a number of small parts (actually there was nothing small about her parts) in TV and films in the fifties and early sixties, including, at the end of her career, as Amazon number 8, in the James Bond spoof <i>In Like Flint (1967) </i>with James Coburn. That year, however, she married Rulon Neilson, the president of Skyline Oil Company from Utah and stopped acting. What did she see in the, twice her age, millionaire oil tycoon? For, that matter what did the 57 year old see in the 29 year old 40-26-38 nude model and former Las Vegas showgirl?<br />
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