pin-up girl
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Hollywood's golden age pin-up girl, Marilyn Monroe, who died at age 36 in 1962, earned near $27 million, placing her third on the list.
From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2011
Betty Grable, 26, pin-up girl, and trumpeting Harry Haag James, 32; six days after he was divorced by Louise Tobin James; each for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Divorced.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Betty had her first baby, her G.I. admirers promptly wrote their No. i pin-up girl to tell her all about their wives and their babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Named Irina Baronova, popular White Russian pin-up girl of the Red Army, ballerina of the Manhattan musical Follow the Girls, had a new narcissus named for her by the Horticultural Society of New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page.
From Time Magazine Archive
