TackyTimes Magazine Hollywood 40s Special

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Special Hollywood Issue
May - 2005

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Turmoil in the Pin-up Business -> Read All About It

Jane Russell, Maurene O'Hara, Jeanne Crain, Laureen Bacall, Maria Montez and lots of others are all married to men who have had enough of microscopic bathing suits and lifted skirts. Other husbands on the other hand are still ever so liberal.

The picture goers seam to think that Jane Russel has joined the pin-ups after her role in "The Outlaw". But now her husband has put his foot down.

George Petty - Father Of The Modern Pin-up
-> Come Meet Him

If you think that the pin-ups is a product of Hollywood alone and that the white telephone they constantly seam to be accompanied by is Graham Bell's invention your wrong. Their both create by George Petty.

Without A Pool You're Nothing
-> Read About One Of The Hollywood Necessities

If you manage to tear your eyes away from Jeanne Crain for a short second you might notice her pool, It is marble and classic in style.

When you check out the illustrations in this story you might suspect that this is a disguised pin-up article but you're wrong.
We are not suggesting that this piece could indeed only interest plumbers and masons, but it is after all about swimming pools.

The Pin-up Girls - Do They really Like It
-> Read For Yourself What They Say

Maria Montez in a typical pin-up posture in a photo like so many others our magazine and papers seam to flow over with these days.

Yes, sir, I know that you like it. All those long legged pin-ups with their minimal bathing suits, silk stockings, feathers, the lot. The question is, do any of them like it themselves.
A Hollywood reporter who took it upon him to find out found that some did and some didn't. This article will tell you who thought what.

About Stars and Brains -> Who Of Them Are Regarded As Intelligent And Who Are not

If you are among those who think a pretty face or a muscular actors body means that those they belong to necessary have to be totally brainless you are wrong.
Everybody knows that to get to the top in Hollywood takes a lot, still most people think that those that do have nothing but a big vacuum above the neckline.

Greta Garbo is regarded as being sharp as knife in spite of her little miss when it came to "Mr Schicklgruber" (read about it in the article)

The articles in this Tacky Times Special are taken from different issues of the Norwegian magazine "Film Journalen" from 1946, 1947 & 1948.

All part of TidiousTed's magic magazine collection :-)

Beauty Isn't Enough -> Read Why

Penny Edwards is one of the newcomers in Hollywood. She's only 17 and still she's been in several Broadway Hits and now even in the movies. Her first was "My Wild Irish Rose" and she is now on the set of "Two Guys From Texas"

An article that tell it like it is. In today's Hollywood you need character, personality and acting skills a lot more than you need a pin-up body and temporary beauty.

A Pin-up Cavalcade - And Compliments
To Those That Chose Not To be

No girl or woman could deny the fact that the pin-up babes were rubbing them the wrong way back in the 40s. coming back from a hard day's work to find their magazines full of these long legs and freshly painted faces.

-> Go Meet Them

Yvonne de Carlo in "Frontier Girl" where she plays a girl who make her living robbing cowboys.

Fanatic American Censorship Strikes
British Movie -> The Necklines That Were Too Much

Can a historically correct costume be so offensive to the American public that censorship is needed to protect the movie goers.

This question is highly relevant both in America and in England where the "film war" has reached a level that seam ridiculous to the rest
of the world.
The fact that the american censorship has decided that a female bust in historically correct neckline seen slightly from above is too much for the American people has made it necessary for the English to refilm several expensive scenes in their popular movie "Wicked Lady"

This is one of the necklines that
were too daring. Patricia Roc's
costume were regarded as to
exiting for the American public. Protectors of the moral would
react. And this from a nation that is
flooding the world in pin-up photos.

The Hollywood Stars And Their Sports
-> What Star Prefer What Sport For Relaxation And Fitness

Ronald Reagan and Alexis Smith prefere riding.

The three leading sports stores in Hollywood is not on just any street, they are on the boulevards, and they are expensive. They are so exclusive that they only cater for the big ones. People like you and I that neither are nor look like Gary Cooper or Lana Turner would be regarded as strange creature in one of them, should we drop by for some tennis balls or a couple of lures.

The Celluloid Heros - Are They For Real
-> How Do They Treat A Girl In The Real Life

An evening on "Mocambo" with Bing Crosby is something else, at least that's what the girls who've had the pleasure says.

This article takes a look at how those good looking guys we see on the silver screen behave themselves when out on the town with a girl at their side.