A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. A model is a person who is posed or displayed for the purpose of Art, Fashion, or other products and Advertising. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — Pin-ups are intended for informal display. Pin-up girls are often glamour models, fashion models, and actresses. Glamour photography is the photographing of a model with the emphasis on the subject
Pin-up may also refer to drawings, paintings and other illustrations done in emulation of these photos (see the List of pinup artists). This is a list of Artists who work primarily in the medium of the pin-up. The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The pin up images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick Paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an Envelope and Lithography is a method for Printing using a plate or stone with a completely smooth surface Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of pin-up girls were mass-produced. A poster is any piece of printed Paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface
Many pin ups were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an Image created by Light falling on a light-sensitive surface usually Photographic film or an electronic A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention A sex symbol is a famous person of either gender typically an Actor, Musician, model, Teen idol, or Sports star One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable. Betty Grable ( December 18, 1916 &ndash July 2, 1973) was an American Dancer Singer, and actress Her poster was ubiquitous in the lockers of G.I.s during World War II. For other uses of GI see GI GI or GI is a term describing members of the U World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Other pin-ups were artwork, often depicting idealized versions of what some thought a particularly beautiful or attractive woman should look like. An early example of the latter type was the Gibson girl, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson Charles Dana Gibson ( September 14, 1867 &ndash December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist noted for his creation of the " The genre also gave rise to several well-known artists specializing in the field, including Alberto Vargas and George Petty, and numerous lesser artists such as Art Frahm. Alberto Vargas ( 9 February 1896 &ndash 30 December 1982) was a noted painter of Pin-up girls and Erotica. George Brown Petty IV ( 27 April 1894 &ndash 21 July 1975) was an American Pin-up artist Art Frahm (1907–1981 was an American painter of campy Pin-up girls and Advertising.
The term "cheesecake" is synonymous with pin-up photo. The earliest documented print usage of this sense of cheesecake is in 1934 [1], predating pin-up, although anecdotes say the phrase was in spoken slang some 20 years earlier, originally in the phrase (said of a pretty woman) "better than cheesecake". Cheesecake is a large family of sweet Cheese -based Custard pies Cheesecakes are generally made with soft fresh cheeses In the 1950s, for example, there was a magazine called Cheesecake that had a young Marilyn Monroe in an itsy bitsy yellow bikini on its cover in 1953.
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In comic books, a pin-up is simply a full-page piece of artwork, most often without dialogue, that showcases a character, group of characters, or significant event, published within a single issue or annual rather than made available by itself as a poster. Theda Bara was the stage name and later legal name of Theodosia Burr Goodman ( July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955) an American Vilma Bánky ( January 9, 1898 - March 18, 1991) was a Hungarian -born American Silent film Actress Belle Bennett ( April 22, 1891 - November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her professional career in Vaudeville Clara Gordon Bow ( July 29, 1905 &ndash September 27 1965) was an American Actress and Sex symbol, who rose to fame Mary Brian ( February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American Actress and Movie star who made the Louise Brooks ( November 14, 1906 &ndash August 8, 1985) was an American Dancer, model, Showgirl Camilla Antoinette Clifford ( June 29 1885 &ndash June 28 1971) was a Belgian -born stage actress and the most famous model for the Betty Compson ( March 19, 1897 - April 18, 1974) was an Oscar nominated American Actress. Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; ( March 23, 1905 - May 10, 1977) Crawford was signed to a motion picture Bebe Daniels ( January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. Marion Davies ( January 3, 1897 &ndash September 22, 1961) was an American film Actress. Billie Dove (born May 14 1903 Ruth Etting ( November 23 1896 – September 24 1978) was an American singing star of the 1930s who had over sixty hit recordings Greta Garbo ( 18 September 1905 &ndash 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress during Hollywood 's Barbara Kent (born December 16, 1906) is a former popular actress in Silent movies. Bessie Love ( September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) was an American Motion picture actress who achieved fame largely Barbara La Marr ( Reatha Dale Watson) ( July 28, 1896 in Yakima Washington &ndash January 30, 1926 in Altadena California Colleen Moore, born Kathleen Morrison ( August 19 1900 – January 25 1988) was an American Film actress Mae Murray ( May 10, 1889 – March 23, 1965) was an American Actress and Dancer, who became known as "The Nita Naldi ( April 1, 1897 &ndash February 17, 1961) was an American Silent film Actress. Alla Nazimova (Алла Назимова born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон May 22, 1879 Pola Negri ( Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec) ( 3 January, 1897 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page ( August 4 1910 &ndash September 6 2008) was an American Film actress Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Academy Award -winning Canadian motion picture Dolores del Río ( August 3, 1905 &ndash April 11, 1983) was a Mexican Film actress. Edith Norma Shearer (August 10 1900 - June 12 1983 was an Academy Award&ndashwinning Canadian-American actress. Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood Lilyan Tashman ( October 23, 1896 – March 21, 1934) was an American Silent film Actress. Olive Thomas ( October 20, 1894 &ndash September 10, 1920) was an American Silent film Actress and Alice White ( August 24, 1904 - February 19, 1983) was an American Film actress. Annabella (14 July 1909 &ndash 18 September 1996 was a French cinema actress who achieved her greatest success in French cinema, but who Jean Arthur ( 17 October &ndash 19 June) was an Oscar -nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in Francophone countries ( June 3, 1906 &ndash April 12, 1975) was an American-born Constance Campbell Bennett ( October 22, 1904 &ndash July 24, 1965) was an American actress. Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, ( August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an Oscar -nominated American Claudette Colbert ( IPA: /koʊlˈbɛɹ/ ( September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French -born American stage Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5 1908 – October 6 1989 was an American actress of Film, Television and Theatre. Marlene Dietrich maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtrɪç (December 27 &ndashMay 6) was a German -born American Actress, Singer and Entertainer Alice Faye (born Alice Jeane Leppert on May 5, 1915 - May 9, 1998) was an American actress and Singer Janet Gaynor ( October 6, 1906 &ndash September 14, 1984) was an American actress. Jean Harlow ( March 3, &ndash June 7,) was an American Film Actress and Sex symbol of the 1930s Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award -winning actress. Sonja Henie ( April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and actress Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (born January 8 1911 &ndash April 26 1970) was Vivien Leigh Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 &ndash 8 July 1967 was an English actress. Carole Lombard ( October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. Marilyn Miller ( September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early Sally Rand ( April 03, 1904 &ndash August 31, 1979) was born Harriet Helen Gould Beck in Hickory County Missouri. Ginger Rogers ( July 16, 1911 &ndash April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award -winning American film and stage actress Barbara Stanwyck ( July 16, &ndash January 20,) was an American actress, a star of film and television known during her 60-year career as a Thelma Todd ( July 29, 1905 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress of the late 1920s and early 1930s film Helen Twelvetrees ( December 25, 1908 - February 13, 1958) was an American stage and screen performer considered a top female Lupe Vélez ( July 18, 1908 &ndash December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress Mae West (August 17 1893 &ndash November 22 1980 was an American actress, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Sex symbol. Toby Wing ( July 14, 1915, Amelia Courthouse Virginia &ndash March 22, 2001, Mathews Virginia) was an American actress Vina Fay Wray ( September 15, 1907 &ndash August 8, 2004) was a Canadian &ndash American actress and the first Loretta Young ( January 6, 1913 &ndash August 12, 2000) was an American actress Diana Barrymore ( March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960) was an American film and stage actress. (ˈbærjman in Swedish but usually ˈbɝgmən in English (August 29 1915 &ndash August 29 1982 was a Swedish three-time Academy Award -winning and two-time Emmy Vivian Blaine ( 21 November, 1921 – 9 December, 1995) was an Actress and Singer best known for originating the role Cyd Charisse ( March 8, 1922 &ndash June 17, 2008) was an American Dancer and actress. Jeanne Elizabeth Crain ( May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Linda Darnell ( October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American film actress. Yvonne De Carlo ( September 1, 1922 &ndash January 8, 2007) was a Canadian -born American Film and Vera-Ellen ( February 16, 1921 - August 30, 1981) was an American actress and stage and Film Lisa Fonssagrives ( May 17, 1911 – February 4, 1992) born Lisa Bernstone in Sweden, was a fashion model Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award -winning British Actress in American films Ava Lavinia Gardner ( December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award -nominated American actress Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10 1922 – June 22 1969 was an American actress and singer Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE ( September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an English-American actress who was Paulette Goddard ( June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an Oscar -nominated American Film and Theatre Betty Grable ( December 18, 1916 &ndash July 2, 1973) was an American Dancer Singer, and actress WikipediaWikiProject_Opera#Infoboxes --> Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress Jane Greer ( September 9, 1924 &ndash August 24, 2001) was a film and television actress who was perhaps best known for her role as Femme Anne Gwynne ( December 10, 1918 - March 31, 2003) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s Susan Hayward ( June 30, 1917 &ndash March 14, 1975) was an Academy Award -winning American Actress. Rita Hayworth (October 17 1918 &ndash May 14 1987 born Margarita Carmen Cansino was a Spanish-American actress who rose to stardom in the 1940s as the era's leading Sex symbol June Haver ( June 10, 1926 &ndash July 4, 2005) was an American film actress, who was born in Rock Island Illinois Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an iconic American singer and Actress. Candy Jones (born Jessica Arline Wilcox in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, on December 31, 1925 - January 18, 1990) was an Jennifer Jones may refer to Jennifer Jones (actor (born 1919 eponym of Jennifer Robin Jones is an Academy Award-winning American actress Olga San Juan (born March 16, 1927) is a Brooklyn-born dancer and Comedian of Puerto Rican extraction who was active in films primarily in the Veronica Lake ( November 14, 1922 &ndash July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model Carole Landis ( January 1, 1919 - July 5, 1948) was an American Film actress. Hedy Lamarr ( November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian born American actress Dorothy Lamour ( December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American motion picture actress. Joan Leslie (born January 26 1925 in Detroit Michigan) is a former American actress. Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors ( December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors Marie McDonald ( July 6, 1923 – October 21, 1965) was an American singer and actress Ann Miller (April 12 1923 – January 22 2004 was an American dancer singer and actress Carmen Miranda, pron. 'kaɾme͂j mi'rɐ͂dɐ (February 9 1909 – August 5 1955 birth name Maria do Carmo María Montez ( June 6, 1912 - September 7, 1951) was a Dominican -born Motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons on 17 August 1920 in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish film actress Frances Rafferty ( June 16, 1922 - April 18, 2004) was an American Actress, Dancer and World War II Ella Raines ( August 6, 1920 &ndash May 30, 1988) was an American actress. Donna Reed ( January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an Academy Award -winning American actress. Jane Russell (born June 21) is an American film actress and Sex symbol. Ann Sheridan ( February 21, 1915 &ndash January 21, 1967) was an American Film actress. Alexis Smith (June 8 1921 - June 9 1993 was a Canadian actress. Gene Tierney ( November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Lana Turner ( February 8, 1921 &ndash June 29, 1995) was an Academy Award -nominated American Film Chicago -born Jean Wallace (born Jean "Janina" Walasek to John T Walasek and Mary A Walasek nee Sharkey ( October 12, 1923 For the Fijian academic business woman see Esther Williams (academic Esther Jane Williams (born August 8 1921 is a retired Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 &ndash January 14 2006 was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films as well as on stage and television Pier Angeli ( June 19, 1932 – September 10, 1971) was an Italian -born actress. Brigitte Bardot ( (born 28 September 1934 is a French actress, former fashion model, Singer and animal welfare/rights activist Candy Barr ( July 6, 1935 &ndash December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, Burlesque exotic Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3 1930 in Santa Monica California) is a Showgirl Hazel Court ( February 10 1926 &ndash April 15 2008) was an English Actress known for her roles in Horror films Dagmar ( November 29, 1921 – October 9, 2001) was an American actress, model, and Television personality Dorothy Jean Dandridge ( November 9, 1922 &ndash September 8, 1965) was an American Actress and Popular singer Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1922) is an American Singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Sandra Dee ( April 23 1942 - February 20 2005) was an American Film actress best known for her portrayal Faith Domergue ( June 16, 1924 - April 4, 1999) was a film actress Diana Dors ( October 23, 1931 &ndash May 4, 1984) was an English actress and Sex symbol. Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born on September 29 1931 is a Swedish model, actress and cult Sex symbol. Gloria Grahame ( November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an Academy Award -winning American Film Allison Hayes ( March 6, 1930 &ndash February 27, 1977) was an American Film actress. Audrey Hepburn ( &ndash) was an English/Dutch Academy Award - Emmy Award - Tony Award - and Grammy Award -winning film and stage actress Grace Patricia Kelly (later Grace Princess of Monaco; November 12 1929 &ndash September 14 1982 was an Academy Award -winning American film and Gina Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927 in Subiaco Italy) is a Golden Globe Award -winning Italian Actress and Photojournalist Sophia Loren (born September 20 1934 is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress born Sofia Villani Scicolone Jayne Mansfield (April 19 1933 – June 29 1967 was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. Nellie Elizabeth "Irish" McCalla ( December 25, 1928 – February 1, 2002) was Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1 1926 &ndash August 5 1962 baptized Norma Cleouna "Cleo" Moore ( October 31 1928 - October 28 1973) was a blonde bombshell of 1950s Hollywood films Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress, who was one of her nation's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s Maila Nurmi ( December 11, 1922 &ndash January 10, 2008) was a Finnish American Actress, who created the campy Bettie Mae Page (born Betty Mae Page April 22 1923 in Nashville Tennessee) is a former American model who became famous in the 1950s for Suzy Parker ( October 28, 1932 - May 3, 2003) was an American actress and model. Barbara Payton ( November 16, 1927 &ndash May 8, 1967) was an American film Actress. Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an Academy Award -nominated American actress, Singer Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927 in Denver Colorado) is an American stage film and television actress. Lili St Cyr ( June 3, 1917 or 1918 &ndash January 29, 1999) was a prominent American Burlesque Stripper Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an Academy Award -winning American actress. Gia Scala ( March 3, 1934 &ndash April 30, 1972) was an English American actress of Italian-Irish descent Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks February 29, 1928) is an American stripper Burlesque star and Motion picture Actress Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award -winning English-American actress Märta Torén ( May 21, 1926 &ndash February 19, 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931 some sources say 1933 is an American actress and Sex symbol. June Wilkinson (born 27 March 1940 in Essex) is an English model and actress known for her appearances in Playboy Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger 26 April 1942 in Paris) was a former Miss France Monde and Actress during the 1960s and onwards Anouk Aimée (born 27 April 1932 is an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning French Film actress. Ann-Margret (born April 28 1941 is a Swedish -born American actress singer Ursula Andress (born March 19, 1936) is a Golden Globe award-winning Swiss actress and a major Sex symbol of the 1960s Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an English-born French Actress, Singer and Film director. Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925) is an English actress, who is perhaps best known for the roles of Cathy Gale in Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is an Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia. Yvonne Joyce Craig (born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville Illinois) is an American actress best known as Batgirl from Catherine Deneuve (French katʁin dəˈnœv born October 22 1943 is a two-time Cesar Award -winning BAFTA Award -nominated and Academy Award -nominated Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a Golden Globe -winning American television and Film actress, perhaps Donna Douglas (born September 26, 1933) is a Louisiana -born American Character actress and Real estate Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) known as Faye Dunaway, is an American actress. Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead on August 23, 1934) is an American film and television actress and Singer who is best Shelley Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer known primarily for her roles on Movies Soap operas Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Hall on March 12, 1932 in Bethel Park Pennsylvania) is an American actress, Game show Jane Fonda (born December 21 1937 is an American Academy Award winning Actress, Writer, political activist, former Fashion Talitha Getty ( October 18, 1940 - July 14, 1971) was an Indonesia -born Dutch actress and regarded to some extent Linda Harrison (born 26 July 1945) is an American model and Actress. Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, Singer and actress. Marisa Mell (born Marlies Theres Moitzi 24 February 1939 - 16 May 1992) was an Austrian actress who became a Soledad Rendón Bueno ( July 9, 1943 – August 18, 1970) better known by her Stage names Soledad Miranda or Susann Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an Academy Award -nominated and seven-time Emmy Award -winning American actress Julie Newmar (born August 16, 1933) is an American actress, Dancer and Singer. Christa Päffgen ( October 16, 1938 ? &ndash July 18, 1988) was a German Singer - Songwriter, fashion model Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January, 1937) is an English Academy Award, two-time Cannes Best Actress, Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 - some sources say 1942 or 1943 - in Los Angeles California) is an Academy Award -nominated Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi July 10, 1938 in Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Romy Schneider (September 23 1938–May 29 1982 was an Austrian actress. Jean Dorothy Seberg ( November 13, 1938 – September 8, 1979) was an American actress. Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick ( April 20, 1943 &ndash November 16, 1971) was an American actress Socialite Jean Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English Supermodel and actress Elke Sommer (born 5 November, 1940) born Elke Schletz, is a German -born actress, Entertainer, and Artist. Sharon Marie Tate (January 24 1943 – August 9 1969 was an American actress. Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945 in Washington DC, as simply Leigh Taylor) is an Emmy Award-winning American Penelope Tree (born 1950) is an Anglo-American Supermodel. Penelope was born to Anglo-American Bisexual Journalist Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English Supermodel, Actress, and Singer, now also Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is a Golden Globe Award -winning Oscar nominated American stage film and television actress Raquel Welch (born September 5 1940 is a Golden Globe -winning American actor who achieved fame as a Hollywood sex symbol during the 1960s Dawn Elberta Wells (born October 18, 1938, in Reno, Nevada) is an American actress best known for her television work in the 1960s particularly Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an Emmy - and Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American film and television Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, also billed as Natasha Gurdin ( July 20, 1938, San Francisco, California A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative An annual publication, more often called simply an annual, is a book or a Magazine, Comic book or Comic strip published yearly
In professionally published fan magazines for films and television series, a posed photograph of actors or actresses from the subject matter, but might also showcase specific scenes from the subject matter in photograph form (called stills) are occasionally called pin-ups. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U The label is very casual, though, as these types of fan media are more accurately described as posters.
See also
External links
- Pin-Up WOW! | Pin-Up Girls at the Pin-Up WOW!
- Pinup calendars from famous artists
- Mid-20th century pin-up art
- Yahoo! Directory of Pin-up sites
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- Gil Elvgren Pinup Tribute & Gallery
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