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The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s British female vocal trio from Northampton, comprising lead vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall. They were one of the few British girl groups of the late sixties. Each member of the group had a nickname, similar to the Spice Girls three decades later.
Mathis first appeared in the West End at the age of fifteen and came to fame in March 1968, using the stage name 'Tiger', as the lead singer of the Paper Dolls. They reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart with "Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A Tellin' Me No)", appearing on Top Of The Pops. The Paper Dolls toured widely and topped the bill ...
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey , beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois , beginning in the early 1920s; and one in ...
Set in a pre-#metoo era, Oz girl-band drama “Paper Dolls” has been realized by an all female filmmaker team shedding light on this darker era for women in the music industry. Former MTV ...
Mary Weiss, the lead singer and focal point of the Shangri-Las — one of the truly legendary girl groups of the early 1960s, with hits like “Leader of the Pack,” “Great Big Kiss ...
Paulina Porizkova. Paula Porizkova is letting go of shame and embracing her bare body.. The Czechoslovakian-born model left very little to the imagination in her newest magazine cover, where she ...
Amos was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1937 [1] to India DeLaine Amos and Miles Green Amos. [2] She also has an older brother named Larry. [3] Amos took an interest in art at an early age, creating "masses of paper dolls" and learning figure drawing from issues of Esquire and the art of Alberto Vargas, was painting the figure by the age of nine.
Laurie Simmons, First Bathroom/ Woman Standing, 1978. Laurie Simmons (born 1949) is an American artist best known for her photographic and film work. [1] [2] Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture.