Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe on the set of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

Toen we nog geen AI nodig hadden voor magnifieke foto's (en nu nog niet, come to think of it).

Deze is vermoedelijk wel later nog ingekleurd.

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Betty Grable missed out on a role in Samuel Goldwyn's Guys and Dolls in 1955, because she didn’t attend a meeting with him as her Dog had broken its leg. Goldwyn was peed off by that and gave the role to Vivian Blaine.
On her birthday, 10 things you didn't know about Betty Grable.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/12/18-december-betty-grable.html

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Photo of the Day

the million dollar legs

Posing for promotional photos was required under Betty Grable’s contract with Twentieth Century Fox; but when she arrived at the movie studio for a previously scheduled photo session in 1943, she had a problem.

Betty had recently married band leader Harry James and was pregnant with her first child.

And she had a ‘baby bump.’

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-d45?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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