Betty Grable
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Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutive years she placed a
Grable in the 1950s
Grable in a scene from Down Argentine Way (1940)
Grable in the film Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Grable and Carmen Miranda in hit Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
Rita Hayworth
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Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over 38 years. The press
Betty Grable
…television. Throughout her career, Grable was a celebrated sex symbol. Her bathing-suit poster made her the top pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. The photo was later included in the Life magazine project "100 Photographs That Changed the World". Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the…
Hayworth by Bob Coburn, 1948
At age 12, Margarita (later Rita) Cansino was dancing professionally as her father's partner in "The Dancing Cansinos", 1931.
Margarita Cansino, at age 14, with her father and dancing partner, 1933
Rita Cansino and her father, 1935