Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad

Jane Powell

Doris Day

Janet Leigh

Jeanne Crain

Mitzi Gaynor

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Put The Blame On Lamé

The original version of a soon-to-be iconic dress. Ginger Rogers in Dreamboat (Fox, 1952)

Betty Grable performing on an episode of Shower Of Stars (CBS, 1954)

Marilyn Mawell performing onstage in Las Vegas, 1954

Jeanne Crain and Paul Brinkman at the premiere of Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (UA, 1955)

Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay at the premiere of The Spirit Of St. Louis (Warner Bros., 1957)

The legendary version. Publicity for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Fox, 1953)

Hello, Kitty

Foxy Ladies

Here we have a quartet of boudoir babes from the 20th Century Fox stable of fillies. It's interesting to note the differences between these four, and the decor they were photographed in (either their own, or studio-created). Indisputably the biggest star was Marilyn Monroe, who was captured by Douglas Kirkland in her near-minimalist, almost spartan Brentwood bedroom.


Joan Collins was imported by Fox from Britain in 1955, as their answer to Metro's Elizabeth Taylor, another exquisite British rose who became the quintessential Hollywood superstar. Collins never quite rose above her also-ran status (until a little thing called Dynasty came along in the 1980's), and this photograph points up the studio's nonchalant attitude toward her: despite the glamorous flourishes (pink poodle, pink pillows, pink phone), there's a bizarrely "unfinished" feel to it all, as if the decorator were fired midway through the job.


The ultimate symbol of 1950's excess and extravagance, Jayne Mansfield's infamous Pink Palace was the ideal expression of Mansfield's uniquely, operatically bad (yet fabulous) taste, a shrine to rhinestone luxury totally befitting the Queen of Kitsch.


She never once played a villain; was a devout Roman Catholic who had seven children with her husband of over 50 years; and was the model of chaste, wholesome beauty in such films as State Fair (1945) and Cheaper By the Dozen (1950). Yet someone at Fox thought it fitting to photograph Jeanne Crain in a boudoir setting that made Jayne Mansfield's seem sedate.

Well, those seven kids had to come from somewhere.

We Had the Craziest Dream

It started off, innocently enough (and, frankly, as many of our dreams do), with Miss Arlene Francis...


...who is chatting with Miss Dorothy Kilgallen in the CBS commissary...


...when they spy, sitting a few tables away, Jeanne Crain...


...who is lunching with Eva Bartok...


...except that Jeanne and Eva are dressed as pioneer women. They're whisked away from the commissary by wagon train, through the wildnerness, where they encounter Daniel Boone...


...who, in our dream, is portrayed not by Fess Parker, but Matthew McConnaughey.


Suddenly, we are wandering through the historical home of Daniel Boone, including a room where, a plaque tells us, he consummated an affair with Dorothy Dandridge.


Struck by nature's call, we search the museum for a public restroom, finally finding one and then realizing that we are barefoot! Of course, we don't want to pull a Britney Spears...


...so we leave. In the courtyard of the museum, we realize we left our pink cosmetic case (which we don't actually own in real life!)...


...and our Louis Vuitton Baikal bag (which we do) sitting on a bench.


Frantically, we search them to make sure nothing's missing, and discover a litany of missed calls on our iPhone...


...from our boss, wondering where the hell we are, and why we are late for work.

We blame it all on Arlene Francis, who started the whole bizarre mess.

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Although we think she should have said "no" to that fez/camel toe combo.

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