"Diana Dors Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film actress and singer. She first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed a genuine talent for TV, recordings, and cabaret, and gained new"
"Bombshell (sex symbol) The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term ""sex symbol"" and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman. The ""Online Etymology Dictionary"" by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942, and in the meaning of ""shattering or devastating thing or event"" since 1860. The first woman to be known as a bombshell was Jean Harlow, who was nicknamed the ""blonde bombshell"" for her film ""Platinum Blonde"" (1931). Two years later, she starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film ""Bombshell"" (1933). One"
"was magical"". Similarly, Jonathan Rosenbaum stated that ""she subtly subverted the sexist content of her material"" and that ""the difficulty some people have discerning Monroe's intelligence as an actress seems rooted in the ideology of a repressive era, when superfeminine women weren't supposed to be smart"". Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a"
"Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot and Mamie Van Doren. A review of English language tabloids from the United Kingdom has shown it to be a recurring blonde stereotype, along with ""busty blonde"" and ""blonde babe"". Jean Harlow started the stereotype with her film ""Bombshell"". Following her, Monroe, Mansfield and Van Doren helped establish the stereotype typified by a combination of curvaceous physique, very light-colored hair and a perceived lack of intelligence. During the 1950s, the ""blonde bombshell"" started to replace the ""Femme fatale"" as the mainstream media stereotype. Marjorie Rosen, the historian of women in films, says of the"
"Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962 (equivalent to $ billion in ). More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los"
"Taylor, Ann-Margret, Veronica Lake, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress, and Gina Lollobrigida The epithet rose sharply in popularity after the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, and declined in popularity in the late 1960s due to emerging ideological conflicts. Bombshells are identified with hypersexuality, their curves, including hourglass figures and large breasts, sex appeal, larger than life personas, as well as stereotypes associated with blonde women and supermodels. Bombshell (sex symbol) The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term ""sex symbol"" and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman."
"Shearer. She had become one of the biggest movie stars in the world by the late 1930s, often nicknamed the ""Blonde Bombshell"" and the ""Platinum Blonde""; she was also popular for her ""Laughing Vamp"" movie persona. Harlow died at age 26 during the 1937 filming of ""Saratoga"". The film was completed using body doubles and released a little over a month after Harlow's death. The American Film Institute ranked her as the 22nd greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. Harlow was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri. The name is sometimes incorrectly spelled Carpentier, following later studio"
"her lifetime. In 2011 she was commemorated by Leeds Civic Trust with a blue plaque placed at her childhood home in Cemetery Road, Holbeck. Ivy Benson has a ward named after her in Clacton Hospital. In 1984 ""The Silver Lady"", a play by Liane Aukin based on Benson's life, was staged at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Benson and her band have been suggested as a possible basis for Alan Plater's TV film ""The Last of the Blonde Bombshells"" and play ""Blonde Bombshells of 1943"", in which a woman reunites her wartime all-girl band. Ivy Benson Ivy Benson (11 November 1913"
"Evelyn Dall Evelyn Dall (January 8, 1918 – March 10, 2010) was an American singer and actress. Born in The Bronx, New York City, Dall began her career in short films and in supporting roles on Broadway. In 1935, she was invited to become the female vocalist for Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, in the UK, where she remained until 1946. She was known there as England's ""Original Blonde Bombshell"". In 1946, she returned to the United States where she married and raised a daughter and son. Widowed in 1974, Dall moved to Jupiter, Florida, in 1980, then to Arizona"
"had an elder brother named Robert, also born in Poland. Their Kiev-born younger sister, Mary Pecjak, was briefly an actress, known as Manya Roberti (1908–1983), who later disappeared from show business. After having appeared in vaudeville, Roberti made her Broadway debut in ""You Said It"" in 1931, and with its success became an overnight sensation. During her run with the show, she was nicknamed ""Broadway's preferred Polish blonde"". Historian Edward Jablonski found that ""much of her appeal to the audiences at the time was due to her Polish accent"" and cited instances where her pronunciation of certain consonants would ""stir"
"Joyce Bryant Joyce Bryant (born October 14, 1928) is an African-American singer and actress who achieved fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer. With her signature silver hair and tight mermaid dresses, she became an early African-American sex symbol, garnering such nicknames as ""The Bronze Blond Bombshell"", ""the black Marilyn Monroe"", ""The Belter"", and ""The Voice You'll Always Remember"". Bryant left the industry in 1955 at the height of her popularity to devote herself to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A decade later, she returned to show business as a trained classical vocalist and"
"Shirley Eaton Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress, model and author. She was a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s, often dubbed the cockney Blonde bombshell for her London accent, blonde hair and sex appeal. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film ""Goldfinger"". Eaton also had notable roles in the early ""Carry On"" films. Preferring to devote herself to bringing up a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969. Eaton was born on 12"
"and Goldie Hawn are also identified to have established the stereotype of the ""dumb blonde"", typified by their combination of overt sexuality, and apparent inability to understand everyday life. Instead of the asexualized and virginal ""nice girls"" of earlier films, the pneumatic blonde bombshells took over the screen in the 1950s to become a cult that has been consistently emulated from that era on. Social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg described the 1950s as ""an era distinguished by its worship of full-breasted women"" and attributes the paradigm shift to Mansfield and Monroe. Patricia Vettel-Becker made that observation more specific by attributing"
"and the police had to intervene when the crowd began to shake the speakers carriage. New retired to the holiday community of Talland-Polperro in Cornwall and died in January 1951 at the age of 73. In 2011, a street in Swindon was renamed in her honour. A Blue Plaque in North Street, Swindon, marks her birth place. In the 2015 film ""Suffragette"", a character partially based on New is portrayed by English actress Helena Bonham Carter. Edith New Edith Bessie New (17 March 1877 – 2 January 1951) was an English suffragette. She was one of the first two suffragettes"
"musical discography, especially one with any availability in the United States. Shirley Eaton Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress, model and author. She was a sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s, often dubbed the cockney Blonde bombshell for her London accent, blonde hair and sex appeal. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film ""Goldfinger"". Eaton also had notable roles in the early ""Carry On"" films. Preferring to devote herself to bringing up a family,"
"Liz Fraser Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was an English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative ""dumb blonde"" in British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Fraser was born in Southwark, London. Her year of birth was usually cited as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in ""I'm All Right Jack"", because the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part. In fact she was three years older, as she confirmed in her autobiography, ""Liz Fraser ... and Other Characters"", published by"
"Cleo Moore Cleouna Moore (October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s. She also became a well-known pin-up girl. Although she never obtained true film stardom, Moore has become a cult fan favorite, with several of her films being considered cult classics. Cleouna Moore was born in Galvez, Louisiana, and raised in nearby Gonzales, Louisiana. Her father ran a grocery store. She was educated in Gonzales' public schools and took a secretarial course at Pope's Commercial College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At"
"the phenomenon to ""Playboy"" and Mansfield and Monroe's appearances in the magazine. Throughout her career, Mansfield was compared by the media to the reigning sex symbol of the period, Marilyn Monroe. 20th Century Fox groomed her, as well as Sheree North, to substitute for Monroe, their resident ""blonde bombshell"", while Universal Pictures launched Van Doren as their substitute. The studio launched Mansfield with a grand 40-day tour of England and Europe from September 25 to November 6, 1957. She adopted Monroe's vocal mannerisms instead of her original husky voice and Texan speech, performed in two plays that were based on"
"Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose; 26 September 1893 – 7 November 1975) was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the ""blank hauteur"" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her ""The loveliest showgirl in the world"". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German"
"the era's social history. Some of Britain's most iconic images include those by Games. An example is the ""Join the ATS"" poster of 1941, nicknamed the ""blonde bombshell"" recruitment poster. His work is recognised for its ""striking colour, bold graphic ideas, and beautifully integrated typography"". Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London on 29 July, the day after World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, ""nee"" Rosenberg, a seamstress born on the border of Russia and Poland. His father, who had emigrated to Britain in 1904, anglicised the family name"
"Carolina Cotton Carolina Cotton (nee ""Helen Hagstrom""; October 20, 1925 in Cash, Arkansas – June 10, 1997, in Bakersfield, California) was an American singer and actress known as the ""Yodeling Blonde Bombshell"", the ""Girl of the Golden West"" and the ""Queen of the Range"". Born to an Arkansas farming family who moved to San Francisco during the Great Depression, Hagstrom took dancing classes, became a child singer and gradually accompanied traveling shows. At the age of 16, she was a high school student who would visit a radio station to watch the Dude Martin’s Roundup Gang. When the band's yodeler"
"Adina Mandlová Adina Mandlová (28 January 1910 in Mladá Boleslav, Austria-Hungary – 16 June 1991 in Příbram, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech actress, sex-symbol of the 1930s and a European movie star. She may be considered one of the most controversial Czech movie stars of all times for being involved in a number of scandals and love affairs. Mandlová, whose true name was Jarmila Anna Františka Marie Mandlová, was born in Mladá Boleslav. After her father died when she was 7 years old, she came to be raised in an unstable family, changing schools several times, and eventually becoming a model"
"Prague. In this role, she continued her involvement in the field of women's work, child protection, unemployment, poverty, and health. She wrote about life in Prague, the concerns and interests of women, pointed to the possibility of addressing unemployment, devoted to the needs of children. She touched all the major social issues, responded to the threat of war. Under her leadership, the sower organized actions in favor of children suffering in Spain and to help the German anti-fascists fleeing to Czechoslovakia. She became a writer, and has written several books, such as ""Child Evička in Wonderland."" In 1931 she was"
"Belinda Lee Belinda Lee (15 June 1935 – 12 March 1961) was an English actress. A profile for the British Film Institute said, ""of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious, yet paradoxically anonymous, British actress of the 1950s."" Often cast in demure roles in her early career, she was able to demonstrate her dramatic abilities, but she found more constant employment when she began to play ""sexpot"" roles. Typecast as one of several ""sexy blondes"", she was often compared, unfavourably, to the popular Diana Dors. Typical of these roles was a supporting part"
"Valerie Hobson Valerie Hobson, Baroness Profumo (Italy) (born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson, 14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998), was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Her second husband was John, 5th Baron Profumo, a government minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963. Hobson was born in Larne, County Antrim, in Ulster. Her father was a captain in the Royal Navy. Before she was 11 years old, Hobson had begun to study acting and dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1935, still"
"Dolores died in Paris on 7 November 1975. Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose; 26 September 1893 – 7 November 1975) was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the ""blank hauteur"" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her ""The loveliest showgirl in the world"". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second"
"be lodged open, it was thought that there had been an assassin there, and Beckham later revealed that she was terrified by the experience. In November 2002, five people were arrested after another plot for her kidnap was infiltrated by a tabloid newspaper. All charges were dropped after a witness was deemed unreliable. Victoria Beckham Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English businesswoman, fashion designer and former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls, and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the"
"Kimberley Walsh Kimberley Jane Scott (née Walsh; born 20 November 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, model, television presenter, actress, and dancer. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality television show """" on ITV. The programme announced that Walsh had won a place as a member of the girl group Girls Aloud. The group has achieved massive success, having twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK, six studio albums have all been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK,"
"activist and Communist, she saw photography as a tool for disseminating her political ideas. In 1933 she married medical doctor Alex Tudor-Hart, who she had met in 1925. She was described ""by those who knew her in her youth as immensely vivacious, amusing, curious, and gifted"". The couple fled to London, England in 1933, so that she could avoid prosecution and persecution in Austria for her Communist activities and Jewish background. While her husband practised as a GP in the area of Rhondda Valley in South Wales, she began to produce photographs for ""The Listener"", ""The Social Scene"" and ""Design"
"Hermione Gingold Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold (9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona. Her signature drawling, deep voice was a result of nodes on her vocal cords she developed in the 1920s and early 1930s. After a successful career as a child actress, she later established herself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama and experimental theatre, and broadcasting on the radio. She found her milieu in revue, which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with Hermione Baddeley. Later she played formidable elderly"
"Carmen Miranda Carmen Miranda GCIH, OMC () (born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. Nicknamed ""The Brazilian Bombshell"", Miranda is noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films. As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before making her first recordings with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of ""Taí"" (""Pra Você Gostar de Mim""), written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her"
"Caroline Winberg Caroline Maria Winberg (born 27 March 1985) is a Swedish supermodel and actress. Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna, Sweden. Winberg, a tomboy and aspiring professional football player in her youth for AIK from Solna a suburb north Stockholm, was en route to football training when scout Cesar Wintland spotted the 15-year-old and suggested that she consider a career in modelling. Winberg began her modelling career at age sixteen, and a year later was booking local gigs and appearing in promotional spots for regional companies. She soon caught the eye of several well-known agencies – including Women Model"
"Bombshell (film) Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes, and Franchot Tone. The film is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman. Movie star Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) is angry with her studio publicist E. J. ""Space"" Hanlon (Lee Tracy), who feeds the press with endless stories about her greatness. Lola's family and staff are another cause of distress for"