Celebrities

Gurli Ingeborg Elna Andresen (1907-1959)

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Gwili Andre came to Hollywood in the early 1930s with the intention of establishing herself as a film star after working for several years as a model in Europe and New York. She was reportedly spotted by David O. Selznick at the premiere of a Broadway show. Selznick was taken by her beauty, and he arranged for a screen test.

She was signed to RKO Studio, and in 1932 appeared in Roar of the Dragon and Secrets of the French Police. While her striking looks were likened to that of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich,  her acting garnered poor reviews. One newspaper columnist called her a “stiff, colorless and completely talentless performer.” Despite the poor reviews of her acting, RKO began using her glamorous looks to promote her career. A widespread publicity campaign ensured that her name and face became well known to the American public, but her next role in No Other Woman (1933), opposite Irene Dunne, was not the success the studio expected. Over the next few years, she was relegated to supporting roles which included a role in the Joan Crawford picture A Woman’s Face (1941).

On 5 February 1959, Andre died in a fire that started in her apartment in Venice, California where she lived alone. The cause was never determined.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (1934-2025)

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was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained international fame for portraying characters associated with hedonistic lifestyles. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remained a major pop culture icon. She appeared in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985.

Lewis Frederick Ayres III (1908-1996)

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Lew Ayres was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years. He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine films. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Johnny Belinda (1948).

In March 1942, Ayres was identified as a 4E conscientious objector and sent to a CO camp. As expected, the announcement that a Hollywood actor objected to the war was a major source of public outcry and debate. Within a month it was determined that he had initially requested to be A-O-1, so that he could serve as a non-combat medic. However, the military’s policy that servicemen cannot request, or be guaranteed, where they will serve, forced him to request a 4E status. The U.S. military confirmed that they would place him as a medic and in April 1942, his status was changed. He enlisted in the United States Army on May 18, 1942.

He served as a first aid instructor in the United States Army before requesting a drop in rank in order to serve as a medic and chaplain’s assistant in the Pacific. He was one of 16 medics who arrived under fire during the invasion of Leyte to set up evacuation hospitals, and there he provided care to soldiers and civilians in the Philippines and New Guinea. He donated all the money he had earned as a serviceman to the American Red Cross.

Serving for three and a half years in the Medical Corps, he was awarded three battle stars. After the war, he resumed his career and made scores of movies, but never reached the peak of his early Hollywood stardom.

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (1931-2015)

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Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress active in American and European films, known for her beauty and curvaceous figure. She became prominent in her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960). Ekberg worked primarily in Italy, where she became a permanent resident in 1964.

As a starlet at Universal, she received lessons in drama, elocution, dancing, horseback riding, and fencing. She appeared briefly in The Mississippi Gambler (1953) with Tyrone Power, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) (playing a woman on Venus), Take Me to Town (1953) with Ann Sheridan, and The Golden Blade (1953) with Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie.

Ekberg worked primarily in Italy, and became a permanent resident in 1964

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*** Admin note – I will not post her later pictures here, she did not age well ***

Marilyn Pauline Novak (1933- )

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Teased in yesterday’s satirical Mimsy/Lux advertisement and known professionally as Kim Novak, she is a retired American actress and artist. Novak is best known for her role in the 1958 film Vertigo. She also appeared in Middle of the Night (1959), The Notorious Landlady (1962), Of Human Bondage (1964), and Falcon Crest (1986). Novak retired from acting after a disagreement with the director of her 1991 film Liebestraum.

She has since focused on painting. 

Joy Rae Brown AKA Joi Lansing (1929-1972)

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was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening “tracking shot” in Orson Welles’ 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She frequently was clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her figure (34D bust), but she never posed nude. She passed away from Breast cancer at 43

Beefcake Tuesdays – Thomas William Selleck

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(1945- ) His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1984. From 2010 to 2024, he portrayed NYC Police Commissioner Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. From 2005 to 2015, he portrayed Jesse Stone in nine television films based on the Robert B. Parker novels.

In films, Selleck played bachelor architect Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). He has also appeared in more than 50 other film and television roles since Magnum, P.I., including the films Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter. He appeared in recurring television roles as Monica Geller’s love interest Dr. Richard Burke in Friends, as Lance White, the naive private investigator on The Rockford Files, and as casino owner A. J. Cooper on Las Vegas. He also had a lead role in the television Western film The Sacketts, based on two of Louis L’Amour’s books.

Nobody does it better; feel sad for the rest

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Caroline Jane Munro (1949- ) was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a “Face of the Year” competition for the British newspaper The Evening News and won. This led to modeling chores, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at age 17. She moved to London to pursue top modeling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and television commercials while there. while we remember her best in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), she already had fifteen appearances prior to that role

Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano (1931- )

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Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades, she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Among her numerous accolades, she is one of the few actors to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony – referred to as the “Grand Slam” of American Show Business. Her role as Anita in the 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story made her the first Latina to win an Academy Award

A Spicy set from June rose Wilkinson

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(1940-2025) was an English model and actress who appeared in Playboy magazine and in films of the 1960s. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of her career she was called “the most photographed nude in America”. She also Dated Elvis Presley a couple of times while he was filming King Creole (1958).

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