Smoking in Bed (1)

Very very dangerous!

Joan Collins


Mamie Van Doren


Lauren Bacall


Mildred Harris and Billie Dove
The Heart of a Follies Girl (1928)


Jane Birkin La Moutarde me monte au nez (1974)


June Havoc The Story of Molly X (1949)


Mary Brian

Bathing Beauties: The Wild Surf

Ride the Wild Surf (1964)

Barbara Eden and Shelley Fabares


Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden


Susan Hart, Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden

Menacing Maidens

Yet another entry in our campy movie poster series.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

An abused wife takes revenge on her cheating husband after exposure to alien radiation causes her to grow to the large economy size.

Attack of the Jungle Women (1959)

You can tell it's really going to be a turkey if they are so sure you won't recognize the names of any of the actors that they don't bother listing them on the poster.

Cat Women of the Moon (1953)

Marie Windsor almost makes this bit of foolishness worth watching. Almost.

Cult of the Cobra (1955)

The stunning Faith Domergue as the faux-asian woman who turns into a reptile to exact her revenge.

Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Patricia Laffan as the Martian dominatrix, along with one of the most lumbering and ridiculous-looking robots in film history make this one not to be missed.

Fire Maidens From Outer Space (1956)

Lessee... 5 guys land on a perfectly earthlike moon of Jupiter inhabited by 15 scantily clad beauties eager for male companionship. Yep, pretty horrifying!

Queen of Outer Space (1958)

I seriously considered this one for my "Most Embarrassing Moments" entry, but, really, if you are Zsa Zsa Gabor, aren't all your moments pretty embarrassing?

She Demons (1958)

Irish McCalla and her boyfriend are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by an ex-Nazi evil scientist type who experiments on beautiful women. Even the scantily clad dancing girls can't save this one.

The Astounding She-Monster (1958)

The Astounding She-Monster is Shirley Kilpatrick, a sexy blonde alien with a skintight metallic suit, high heels, lipstick, and incredible eyebrows. If she touches you, you die. If you watch this movie, you sleep.

The Leech Woman (1959)

A faded beauty leaves a trail of murder from Africa to the United States when she discovers a compound that will restore her lost youth-when consumed with fluid from the pineal gland of the newly dead.

The She-Creature (1956)

A hypnotist fills the room of a local club every night with his predictions of death. To make them come true, he hypnotizes the beautiful Marla English and regresses her to a past life, which somehow produces the she-creature, a monstrosity with scales, a tail and breasts that rampages around a lake resort, somehow getting the drop on her unsuspecting victims.

The Snake Woman (1961)

This film has everything. Torch carrying villagers, a mad scientist, an old woman with "second sight," a handsome young detective and a beautiful girl who, by metamorphosis, turns into a stinging cobra. Yawn.

The Wasp Woman (1959)

The owner of a cosmetics firm is offered a serum made from "wasp enzymes" which makes animals grow younger. She experiments on herself and discovers that the treatments have an interesting side effect.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!

I will readily admit that there is something I just don't quite get about the "glamorous lady draped seductively atop a dead carnivore" paradigm. I'm nothing if not tolerant of the foibles of others, however, having so many fetishes of my own (as my faithful followers will have, no doubt, noticed) so, for those who get off on beauties perched on carcasses, here you go:

Jean Harlow


Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury (1947)


Joan Collins



Veronica Lake


Carroll Baker Harlow (1965)


Claudia Cardinale The Pink Panther (1963)


Cassandra Peterson a.k.a Elvira, Mistress of the Dark


Geneviève Page in Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968)


Kim Novak in Jeanne Eagels (1957)


Ann Sheridan


Greta Garbo

Uh, Greta, listen sweetie, you're going to want to not try to lay on him. He ain't quite dead yet.

Happy Birthday, Nina Foch (1924-2008)

A leading lady of the 1940s, tall, blonde Nina Foch (rhymes with gosh) usually played cool, aloof and often foreign, women of sophistication. As film roles became harder to find, Foch proved to versatile in many areas. She worked as George Stevens' assistant director on The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and directed plays.

The Return of the Vampire (1944)


The Return of the Vampire (1944) with Bela Lugosi


She's a Soldier Too (1944)


Escape in the Fog (1945)


Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)


My Name is Julia Ross (1945)

My Name is Julia Ross (1945)

Her film noir credits include Illegal (1955), The Undercover Man (1949), The Dark Past (1948), Johnny O'Clock (1947), My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) and Escape in the Fog (1945).

Johnny O'Clock (1947)


The Dark Past (1949)


The Dark Past (1949) with William Holden


The Undercover Man (1949)


Johnny Allegro (1949)


Johnny Allegro (1949)


with George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)


with George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)


with George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)


Nina Foch, George Macready, George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)


Nina Foch, George Macready, George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)



Nina Foch, George Macready, George Raft in Johnny Allegro (1949)


Johnny Allegro (1949)






St. Benny the Dip (1951)


St. Benny the Dip (1951)


with Dick Haymes on the set of St. Benny the Dip (1951)


signing autographs on the set of St. Benny the Dip (1951)


An American in Paris (1951) with Gene Kelly


Executive Suite (1954)


Executive Suite (1954)


Executive Suite (1954)


Nina Foch candid NYC 1954


Illegal (1955)


Illegal (1955) with Hugh Marlowe


Illegal (1955) with Edward G. Robinson


The Ten Commandments (1956)


Three Brave Men (1956)


Spartacus (1960)


with Gwyneth Paltrow in Hush (1998)

In later years Nina became a widely respected acting teacher in the Los Angeles area (notably USC) and has directed on stage. She also was a senior faculty member at the American Film Institute.