Vintage Pulp | Mar 29 2011 |
This March 1962 cover of The National Police Gazette features American actress Rhonda Fleming, whose scarlet hair offers a hint why she was known as the Queen of Technicolor. As far as why she’s qualified to tell “why perfect marriages bust up”, she had just divorced her third husband Lang Jeffries on the grounds of mental cruelty, so who better to ask? Mainly though, we posted this cover as an example of what we were talking about yesterday vis-a-vis photo-illustrations. See below or link here.
Femmes Fatales | Dec 6 2010 |
American actress Rhonda Fleming, who was a rarity due to actually being born and raised in the city of Hollywood, became known as “The Queen of Technicolor” because of her flaming red hair. It isn’t evident in this promo shot from the mid 1940s, but it might evident in film titles such as The Redhead and the Cowboy, in which she starred with Glenn Ford, and Those Redheads from Seattle, which paired her with Gene Barry. Fleming is still around, and we'll have more on her a little later.