The 50s

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All a girl needed is a good profile

All a girl needed is a good profile and they would wear the right Bra to make sure you could see it .

GLORIA GRAHAME in Odds Against Tomorrow. (1959)

GLORIA GRAHAME in Odds Against Tomorrow. (1959) Dave Burke looks to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earle Slater, a white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a Black gambler. Both are reluctant, but Burke arranges for Ingram’s…

Burlesque performer Ronnie Bell

Burlesque performer Ronnie Bell

Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Marilyn Monroe in a publicity still for The Seven Year Itch (1955) With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life – to eat and drink…

Naked alibi (1954)

Naked alibi (1954) Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of…

Diana Dors posing

I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain’s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe’s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote “How much like our Diana Dors she is.”.