Femmes Fatales May 4 2013
A JOI TO BEHOLD
Itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka-dot bikini.

Usually we take pains to post rare femme fatale images, if not shots that have never appeared on the internet before, but sometimes you gotta make exceptions, especially when there’s very little chance of improving on existing photos. Such is the case with the above images of American model and actress Joi Lansing in a skirted bikini. She posed in this suit a few times, and never have polka dots looked so good. In the 1950s there were the Monroes and Mansfields, but people who say actresses were generally more curvaceous are wrong. Curves were an ideal, but for every Monroe and Mansfield there were women like Linda Darnell and Joi Lansing who had what would today be considered ideal physiques. These shots are actually later Lansing, made for her role in the 1965 comedy Marriage on the Rocks, when she was thirty-seven years old.

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Femmes Fatales May 1 2013
PERFECT TOPPING
How to make a bagel look even more appetizing.

This great shot of Faye Dunaway in a bagel-like hat was made in 1968 when she was filming her hit movie The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen. Really nothing more can be said about this rare image except behold her beauty and watch the movie. Also, we have another rare Dunaway image here. 

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Femmes Fatales Apr 23 2013
A MIKI SITUATION
She’s never been the clothes minded type.

Above, an image of Japanese actress Miki Sugimoto, who appeared in such movies as Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa, aka Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs and Sukeban gerira, aka Girl Boss Guerilla, seen here doing, um, we don’t know. She’s sort of making the sign of the horns with her right hand, though, and that was traditionally meant to ward off bad luck. Didn’t work, clearly, since she lost her clothes somewhere. Circa 1973. 

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Femmes Fatales Apr 15 2013
MAJOR BARBARA
We thought we’d better share two photos so you could appreciate her fully.

These two eye-catching shots feature American actress Barbara Nichols, née Barbara Marie Nickerauer, who did the usual round of pin-up modeling and beauty contests before earning a running part in the Broadway musical Pal Joey. She later appeared in the film version along with Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and other notables, and during her show business career became known for playing strippers. Pretty easy to see why. We have no date for these photos, but if we had to guess we’d say 1955 or 1956.

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Femmes Fatales Apr 6 2013
SECRET ADMAIER
We suspect she’s about to reveal what she’s hiding.

This provocative shot features German adult actress Brigitte Maier from the Dutch magazine Chick, sometimes referred to as Chick Amsterdam. Back in October we featured a poster, which you can have a look at herefrom Maier’s famous 1975 X-rated hit Sensations. This image was made the previous year.

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Femmes Fatales Apr 4 2013
KNOWING LOOKS
There’s something about Marilyn.

And as long as we’re on the subject, here’s Marilyn Monroe, giving a nice array of expressions in three shots by acclaimed photographer Bob Beerman. These are from 1950.

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Femmes Fatales Mar 28 2013
SUN SERENADE
Hail to the kerchief.

This very rare image of Russian-descended American actress Natalie Wood should serve as inspiration for those of you suffering through the last weeks of winter. Cold weather goes away, and then you too can sit laughing in the sun. This shot, showing Wood wearing the all-but-extinct summer headkerchief, is from around 1968. 

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Femmes Fatales Mar 22 2013
RIGHT TURNER
The postman will ring as long as it takes.

This shot of American actress Lana Turner shows her at the height of her fame during the filming of the 1946 film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice. Turner’s own life rivaled that of any of her characters, encompassing the murder of her father to her daughter stabbing a Mafia thug to death. 

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Femmes Fatales Mar 14 2013
GREENE ENERGY
Her infrastructure needs no upgrade whatsoever.

Above, Irish born actress Angela Greene, who appeared in movies but really made her career as a television actress during the 1950s and 1960s. This image is most likely from around 1947 or 1948. 

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Femmes Fatales Mar 8 2013
TIGER WOULD
He hasn’t taken revenge for his friend the leopard yet, but soon… very soon…

Back in the day, one sure ticket into the movie business was to be a star athlete, which is exactly how Anita Lhoest was noticed by Hollywood. After she became the U.S. national 100 meter and 400 meter freestyle champion the producers came knocking. But in the end she made only one movie—Captive Girl—in which she played opposite another former champion athlete Johnny Weissmuller. The photo above is a promo for Captive Girl, with Lhoest aged nineteen. It dates from 1950. 

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1962—Marilyn Monroe Sings to John F. Kennedy
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