Joan Dixon WWII Pinup
Joan Dixon was born in Norfolk, Virginia on June 6, 1930. She is known for her role in the film noir, “Roadblock” (1951).
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WW2 Pin Up Girls
WW2 Pin Up Girls are defined as: “Noun 1. A picture of a very attractive or famous person, pinned up on a wall, as in a barracks, usually by admirers who have not met the subject. 2. A very attractive girl, especially one considered attractive enough to be the subject of such a picture.”
Gene Tierney: Yank Pin UP May 25, 1945
Gene Tierney Gene Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1920, to well-to-do parents. Her father was a very successful insurance broker and her mother was a former teacher. Her childhood was lavish indeed. She also lived, at times, with her equally successful grandparents in Connecticut and New York. She was educated
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Sheila Ryan WWII Pin Up Model
Born Katherine Elizabeth McLaughlin on June 8, 1921 in Topeka, Kansas, she went to Hollywood in 1939 at the age of 18. She was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1940 and was credited in her early films as Bettie McLaughlin. Adopting the name Sheila Ryan, she starred in “Dressed to Kill” (1941) the following
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Lina Romay YANK Magazine Pin Up Girl – May 18, 1945
Maria Elena “Lina” Romay was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born on January 16, 1922 to Porfirio Romay, the attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.
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Judith Barrett WWII Pin Up
Judith Barrett was born Lucille Kelly on February 2, 1914 in Arlington, Texas, the daughter of a cattle rancher, Barrett made several appearances at The Palace Theatre, Dallas while still at school. Her first big chance came when she started in a lavish commercial film in 1928, “The Stock Exchange” opposite Bobby Vernon.
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Linda Darnell – Yank Pin Up May 12, 1944
Linda Darnell, was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, in Dallas, Texas on October 16, 1923. She was one of five children of a post office worker and his wife. A Texas-born beauty, her mother encouraged her to model.
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Ingrid Bergman Yank Magazine Pin Up April 28, 1944
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling.
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Gale Robbins Yank Pin Up April 21, 1944
Little known singer/actress Gale Robbins was a knockout-looking hazel-eyed redhead who made a slight dent in post-war Hollywood.
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Ramsay Ames Yank Magazine Pin Up April 20, 1945
Despite being one of the great exotic screen beauties of the early ’40s, Ramsay Ames never broke out of leading roles in B-movies and supporting parts in A-films.
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Dorothy Malone – YANK Pinup Girl – April 13, 1945
Dorthy Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, Illinois on January 30, 1925. The family moved to Dallas, Texas, where she worked as a child model and began acting in school plays at Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School.
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