The first woman to be known as a bombshell was Jean Harlow, nicknamed the "blonde bombshell" for her film Platinum Blonde (1931). Two years later, she starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Bombshell (1933). One of the blurbs on posters was "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom."
Hollywood
soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the
early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy
Dandridge, and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as
satellites of, the blonde bombshell and forever known as pin-ups. I hope you
enjoy this month’s group of girls as much as I …
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1st pinup had my attention really quick with her uniform. She wears it well.
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