Adventures in Androgyny: Truus van Aalten

Rub-a-dub-dub: Linda Darnell

Forever Amber (1947)

Inside Looking Out: Fay Wray

The Wedding March (1928)

Smoking in Bed: Marisa Mell

with Jean Marais in Train d'enfer (1965)

Sweater Girl: Peggy Cummins

Gun Crazy (1950)

For the Boys: Hattie McDaniel

(Original Caption) Hattie McDaniel (center), Chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, takes time off from rehearsals to lead a caravan of entertainers and hostesses to Minter Field, for a vaudeville performance and dance for soldiers stationed there. The young lady to the right of Miss McDaniel is Miss Virginia Paris, noted concert singer.

Easter Bunnies 2

Doris Day


Sharon Tate


Heather Angel


Ida Lupino


Loretta Young

Bathing Beauties: Cleo Moore

with Richard Crenna in Over-Exposed (1956)

Reflections: Corinne Griffith

Outlandish Hats: Louise Brooks

The American Venus (1926)

The Eyes Have It: Sheila Ryan

1941 (age 18)


Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)


1946

Bevy of Beauties: King Creole (1958)

Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Liliane Montevecchi, and Jan Shepard hang out with the narc wannabe.

Light and Shadow: Alice Day

The Next Room (1930)

On the Set: Silvana Mangano

on location in Voivodina, Yugoslavia, during the filming of Tempest (1958)

The Art of the Dangle: Else Neft

The Naked Street (1955)

Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 52

Michelle Pfeiffer


Connie Nielsen


Kirsten Dunst


Anja Rubik


Abigail Clancy


Brighdie Grounds


Christina Ricci


Crystal Renn


Ellen Barkin


Zoë Lund

Adventures in Androgyny: Dorothy Lee

She Loves Me Not (1934)

Rub-a-dub-dub: Gina Lollobrigida

Solomon and Sheba (1959)


Never So Few (1959)

Inside Looking Out: Ladies Behind Bars 22

Some Eighties Ladies :)


Marianne Basler in Contrainte par corps (1988)


Jill Clayburgh in Hanna K. (1983)


Barbra Streisand in Nuts (1987)

Anne Bancroft in Garbo Talks (1984)

Smoking in Bed: Marlene Dietrich

The Room Upstairs (1946)

Sweater Girl: Barbara Eden

For the Boys: Chili Williams - The Polka Dot Girl

Known as "The Polka Dot Girl," Chili Williams (born Marian Sorenson in 1921) was discovered by a modeling agent in 1943 at Fire Island in New York. The modeling agent's photographer, Ewing Krainin, took her picture while she was frolicking in the Atlantic Ocean surf, and the series of photos appeared in the September 27, 1943 issue of LIFE Magazine. Krainin had stitched together a black-and-white polka-dot dance-set (which would later come to be known as the "bikini") for her. The photos were so well received, that 100,000 fans sent in letters requesting copies, many of which found their way into the hands of homesick GI’s fighting during the final months of World War II. She signed a movie contract in 1944 and moved to Hollywood, California, where she appeared in 17 films, including the wartime favorites Girl Rush (1944), The Falcon In Hollywood (1944), George White's Scandals (1945), Johnny Angel (1945), Wonder Man (1945), and Having A Wonderful Crime (1945). Chili also joined the Jack Carson USO tour of the Pacific Theater during the winter of 1944-45. (Keep your eyes peeled for pictures from that tour in a future "For the Boys" posting)