Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model and singer.
Grable in the 1950s
Grable's daughters, Victoria Elizabeth and Jessica, watch her rehearse for her TV debut on Shower of Stars (1954)
Grable in a scene from Down Argentine Way (1940)
Grable in the film Tin Pan Alley (1940)
A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. Beginning in the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S.
Betty Grable's famous pin-up photo from 1943
Pin-up girl nose art on the restored World War II B-25J aircraft Take-off Time
Harry Wann paints a "pin-up" girl on a PT boat, Australia, 1944
Pin-up photo of singer Jackie Martinez