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From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [1] [2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women and was first attested to in English in 1941. [3] Images of pin-up girls were published in magazines and newspapers. They were also displayed on postcards, lithographs, and ...
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During World War II, her pin-up series for the company, called Victory Girls, was published both in calendar and mutoscope-card form. In 1946, Mozert created the publicity poster for Republic Pictures' Calendar Girl , a movie about the Gibson Girl .
George Petty, The Ballerina,1965 George Brown Petty IV (April 27, 1894 – July 21, 1975) was an American pin-up artist. His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company.
His first known pin-up was the cover to La Paree Stories in March 1934. [2] By 1935, he was producing covers for Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, French Night Life and Caprice. Driben's popularity continued to rise in the late thirties with covers for Silk Stocking Stories , Gay Book , Movie Merry-Go-Round and Real Screen Fun .
In 1940, Life ran a feature article entitled "Speaking of Pictures" which mostly focused on Moran's work and made him a national celebrity. In 1941, Moran helped the magazine publisher, Robert Harrison, to launch a new men's magazine called Beauty Parade, and he later contributed pin-ups to other Harrison magazines such as Flirt, Wink and Giggles.
Jewel Flowers Evans (7 July 1923 – 6 February 2006) was an American pin-up model best known for her work with Rolf Armstrong as a "Calendar Girl" during the 1940s and 1950s. [1] [3] Jewel Flowers was born in 1923, in East Lumberton, North Carolina, in the part of the town known as a cotton mill village, to Calton and Leah Flowers.
The Statue of Liberty featured as the "Yank pin-up girl" at the end of the war. The women who posed for the pin-ups included both famous and unknown actresses, dancers, athletes, and models. Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth, the most famous pin-up models of World War II, both appeared in Yank pin-ups. Grable appeared in June 1943 wearing a ...