Femmes Fatales

November 8 2024

PERSONAL DEFENSE

I keep hearing that smash Bergers are all the rage, so I decided I needed a little protection.

This shot of Austrian actress Senta Berger was made to promote the television show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., in which she featured during a 1964 episode titled, “The Double Affair.” We’ve visited with Berger a lot, but a particularly nice pair of shots is here. For our many non-U.S. readers, a “smash burger,” which has exploded in popularity, is a hamburger pressed flat from a ball of meat onto a flattop grill and cooked until it has crispy edges. We’ll take our medium rare Wagyu burgers any day of the week.

Austria, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Senta Berger, television

Femmes Fatales

May 19 2024

WHOA NEILE

Let's not go off half-cocked.

This promo image with white markings shows Filipina actress Neile Adams, whose nickname was Nellie, entertaining dangerous thoughts with a machine pistol at her side. Adams is known, these days, for being the wife of screen legend Steve McQueen, but she appeared in about ten films and an equal number of television shows, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Police Woman, and The Rockford Files. There are versions of this photo with McQueen pasted into the background, so for the fun of it we added one below.

Philippines, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Police Woman, The Rockford Files, Neile Adams, Steve McQueen

Femmes Fatales

May 16 2024

POWERS OF INNOVATION

You like my gun? I made a few modifications. It doesn't fire anymore, but it scares the absolute crap out of people.

This promo shot shows U.S. actress Stefanie Powers and was made for her The Man from U.N.C.L.E. spin-off show The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., on which she starred as secret agent April Dancer. She would later go on to become widely known while starring in the 1979-84 sleuthing weekly Hart to Hart with Robert Wagner. The photo is from 1966. You can see another one here.

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hart to Hart, Stefanie Powers, Robert Wagner, television

Intl. Notebook

October 21 2022

MIDNIGHT BLUE

Dark on the outside, darker on the inside.

This is the second Canadian tabloid we’ve shared in October, and we have several others upcoming in the next few months. This time we’re back to Minuit, the sister publication of Midnight, published today in 1968 with a cover featuring Susan Boyd. She’s looking a little radioactive, and in unusually dark waters. This could everyone’s fate the way things are going in 2022. We don’t know what Minuit editors were shooting for here. Maybe they had a problem during the printing phase. But in it an odd way it’s actually a nice cover, and Boyd pops up again in the centerfold, looking much healthier.

Elswewhere inside the issue Minuit wastes no time with its efforts to shock. We learn about Vietmanese youngster Bon Ngoc Tho, who editors claim is a demi-homme born with many characteristics of his father—a monkey. We can say a lot about this, but let’s skip most of it and simply note that the 1960s were the tail end, so to speak, of a long-running fascination with supposed human freaks.

Moving on, editors have a curious photo of a model with something unidentifiable in her mouth. We took several guesses what the thing was, and they were all wrong. Turns out it’s a pea shooter—a tire-pois. No, we’d never seen one, but a few of you probably recognized it. Minuit editors claim it can kill a kid, and that hospitals around the U.S. have been treating serious pea shooter injuries, along with wounds inflicted by “blow zappers and Zulu-guns.” The article explains that the injuries come not from shooting the projectiles, but from swallowing them while inhaling to fire the weapon, occasionally piercing arteries in the neck.

There are more stories along those lines, but it isn’t all dark at midnight. Elsewhere in the issue you get men’s fitness, nymphomania, and plenty of celebs, such as Claudia Cardinale, Nai Bonet, and Maureen Arthur, plus Robert Vaughn hawking a 100% legitimate Man from U.N.C.L.E. “plume espion.” That means “spy feather,” which doesn’t help at all in determining exactly what it is. But a careful scan of the text suggests that it’s an x-ray vision device that works on everything from walls to clothes. Right. We’ll take two, and see you at the beach. Twenty-one scans below.

Canada, Montreal, Minuit, Midnight, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Susan Boyd, Suzanne Pleshette, Maureen Arthur, Josiane Larazin, Claudia Cardinale, Kim Porter, Nai Bonet, Franl Lee Morris, Clint Eastwood, Robert Vaughn, tabloid

Femmes Fatales

January 24 2021

VENTURA HIGHWAY

It's my way or I'll pump you fulla holes. I know that doesn't rhyme, but you get the idea.

Above: a promo photo of British actress Viviane Ventura, who appeared in such films as Docteur Caraïbes and A High Wind in Jamaica, and television shows such as I Spy and The Man from U.N.CL.E. This shot was made when she was co-starring in Battle Beneath the Earth in 1967.

Britain, Battle Beneath the Earth, A High Wind in Jamaica, I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Docteur Caraïbes, Viviane Ventura

Femmes Fatales

October 15 2019

THE POWERS THAT BE

Saying U.N.C.L.E. is not going to appease her.

This shot of U.S. actress Stephanie Powers was made as a promo for the television series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., in which she played the wonderfully named spy April Dancer, aka Agent 0022. The show was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but lasted only one season during 1966-67, which gives us the date range on this photo.

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Stephanie Powers, television

Femmes Fatales

July 25 2019

PLENTY MOORE

The woman from U.N.C.L.E.

This nice shot of U.S. actress Barbara Moore was made as a promo for the television show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., on which she made a series of guest appearances as the character Lisa Rogers, Agent 46. And that was pretty much it for Moore. She had bit parts in a couple of movies and appeared on one other network show, before fading from public view. This photo, though, we hope will stay in view for a while, because it’s great. It was made in 1967.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Barbara Moore, television

Femmes Fatales

June 18 2019

DESTINATION HOLLYWOOD

In real life this could only be a road mirage or a carjacking. Anything else would be too good to be true.

Above is a striking photo of U.S. actress Dolores Faith, who had no major roles during her brief career, but is probably best known for the sci-fi b-movie Mutiny in Outer Space, for her guest appearance on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and for being a world class beauty. We don’t have a date on this, but her time in Hollywood lasted only from 1960 to 1966, so take your pick from any of those years.

Mutiny in Outer Space, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Dolores Faith

Hollywoodland

July 20 2017

LEIGH BY EXAMPLE

You think you can ball? Then show me what you got, chumps!

We featured Leigh Chapman as a femme fatale not too long ago, but here you see her again in 1965 schooling some fools on a Culver City, California basketball court during down time from filming television’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. She needs to drive hard and draw contact. But not against the flabby shoeless guy—he’d probably like it way too much.

California, Culver City, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Leigh Chapman, television

Femmes Fatales

November 2 2016

CHILLY AND GRAY

She has a classic case of cold feet.

British actress Janine Gray must really be suffering in this cold. She was born in Bombay, India, and though she left at age five, may have been there just long enough to get used to the tropical weather. Her show business career was short, but she did appear in some of the better television series of the 1960s, including The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Saint, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The shot above was made to promote her role in the cinematic comedy Quick Before It Melts, which is set in Antarctica. Luckily for Gray it was filmed in California. But that’s a place that can feel pretty cold too, when you have no pants. See below. 1964 copyright on these images.

Britain, India, California, The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Saint, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Quick Before It Melts, Janine Gray, television

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

April 30

1927—First Prints Are Left at Grauman's

Hollywood power couple Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who co-founded the movie studio United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, become the first celebrities to leave their impressions in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, located along the stretch where the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame would later be established.

April 29

1945—Hitler Marries Braun

During the last days of the Third Reich, as Russia’s Red Army closes in from the east, Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker during a brief civil ceremony witnessed by Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the next day, and their corpses are burned in the Reich Chancellery garden.

April 29

1967—Ali Is Stripped of His Title

After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before due to religious reasons, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight boxing title. He is found guilty of a felony in refusing to be drafted for service in Vietnam, but he does not serve prison time, and on June 28, 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses his conviction. His stand against the war had made him a hated figure in mainstream America, but in the black community and the rest of the world he had become an icon.

April 28

1947—Heyerdahl Embarks on Kon-Tiki

Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his five man crew set out from Peru on a giant balsa wood raft called the Kon-Tiki in order to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. After a 101 day, 4,300 mile (8,000 km) journey, Kon-Tiki smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947, thus demonstrating that it is possible for a primitive craft to survive a Pacific crossing.

April 28

1989—Soviets Acknowledge Chernobyl Accident

After two days of rumors and denials the Soviet Union admits there was an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Reactor number four had suffered a meltdown, sending a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Today the abandoned radioactive area surrounding Chernobyl is rife with local wildlife and has been converted into a wildlife sanctuary, one of the largest in Europe.

April 27

1945—Mussolini Is Arrested

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and fifteen supporters are arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, Italy while attempting to escape the region in the wake of the collapse of Mussolini’s fascist government. The next day, Mussolini and his mistress are both executed, along with most of the members of their group. Their bodies are then trucked to Milan where they are hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of a gas station, then spat upon and stoned until they are unrecognizable.