According to the ads, there was a “money-back guarantee” within 10 days if you weren’t 100% “satisfied” with your love doll.
April 24, 2020
34 Candid Color Photographs of Queen’s First Visit to Japan in 1975
In the spring of 1975 Queen set foot as a band for the first time in Japan much to the delight of their legions of fans there. The band played their first of many gigs at Budokan after the release of 1974’s Sheer Heart Attack and the footage from the show is truly something to behold as are the images of the then 29-year-old Mercury sitting along with his bandmates and a few lovely geishas at a formal ceremony on the grass in front of the Tokyo Tower.
The Sweetest Girl in Pictures: 50 Beautiful Pics of Mary Brian in the 1920s and ’30s
Born 1906 as Louise Byrdie Dantzler in Corsicana, Texas, American actress Mary Brian was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1924) after her showing in the beauty contest.
Brian was dubbed “The Sweetest Girl in Pictures.” She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Astor, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.
During her years at Paramount, Brian appeared in more than 40 movies as the lead, the ingenue or co-star. She made the transition from silent films to sound films.
Brian appeared in only a handful of films thereafter. Her last performance on the silver screen was in Dragnet (1947). Over the course of 22 years, Brian had appeared in more than 79 movies.
In 1960, Brian was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 1559 Vine Street. She died of natural causes in 2002 at the age of 96.
Take a look at these vintage pics to see the beauty of Mary Brian in the 1920s and 1930s.
Brian was dubbed “The Sweetest Girl in Pictures.” She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Astor, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.
During her years at Paramount, Brian appeared in more than 40 movies as the lead, the ingenue or co-star. She made the transition from silent films to sound films.
Brian appeared in only a handful of films thereafter. Her last performance on the silver screen was in Dragnet (1947). Over the course of 22 years, Brian had appeared in more than 79 movies.
In 1960, Brian was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 1559 Vine Street. She died of natural causes in 2002 at the age of 96.
Take a look at these vintage pics to see the beauty of Mary Brian in the 1920s and 1930s.
Beautiful Pics of Cher and Her Boyfriend David Geffen During Their Dating Days
In the late 1960s, David Geffen had entered the music publishing side of the business when, as singer-songwriter Laura Nyro’s manager, he created a publishing company for her songs. That was his first big break as a businessman.
Geffen sold the company to CBS for $4.5 million in stock in 1969. He got half, and that allowed him to form Asylum Records with a roster that would come to include Joni Mitchell and the Eagles.
It took only a year for him to sell Asylum for $7 million to Warner Communications, where he would head the merged Elektra/Asylum Records. He was now a certified music tycoon.
But it was his relationship with Cher that brought Geffen into the public eye. Although he would later come out as gay, in 1973 at age 30 he’d fallen in love with Cher, then 27, and they became a couple.
“I was the first person to share his bed and to share his life,” she says in Tom King’s book about Geffen, The Operator. “People don’t believe that, or they don’t want to believe it, or they don’t understand how it could be. But we were really crazy about each other.”
They would be together for two years.
These pics captured beautiful moments of Cher and her boyfriend David Geffen during their dating days.
Geffen sold the company to CBS for $4.5 million in stock in 1969. He got half, and that allowed him to form Asylum Records with a roster that would come to include Joni Mitchell and the Eagles.
It took only a year for him to sell Asylum for $7 million to Warner Communications, where he would head the merged Elektra/Asylum Records. He was now a certified music tycoon.
But it was his relationship with Cher that brought Geffen into the public eye. Although he would later come out as gay, in 1973 at age 30 he’d fallen in love with Cher, then 27, and they became a couple.
“I was the first person to share his bed and to share his life,” she says in Tom King’s book about Geffen, The Operator. “People don’t believe that, or they don’t want to believe it, or they don’t understand how it could be. But we were really crazy about each other.”
They would be together for two years.
These pics captured beautiful moments of Cher and her boyfriend David Geffen during their dating days.
April 23, 2020
Legendary Child Movie Star: 30 Adorable Vintage Photos of Shirley Temple When She Was a Child in the 1930s
Shirley Temple Black is widely regarded as an American heroine who devoted her career first to films and then to public service. The United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, she is still remembered by millions of fans for her success as a child movie star in the 1930s.
Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California, on April 23, 1928. The youngest of three children, her father was a bank teller, who later worked as his daughter's manager and financial advisor when she became famous. As a child Shirley Temple began to take dance steps almost as soon as she began to walk. Her mother began taking her to dancing classes when she was about three and a half years old. She also took her daughter on endless rounds of visits to agents, hoping to secure a show business career. The hard work soon paid off—little Shirley obtained a contract at a small film studio, and one of the great careers in film history began.
Shirley Temple’s first contract was with Educational Pictures Inc., for whom she worked in 1932 and 1933. She appeared in a short movie entitled Baby Burlesks, followed by a two-reeler, Frolics of Youth, that would lead to her being contracted by the Fox Film Corporation at a salary of $150 per week. The first full-length feature that she appeared in for Fox was Carolina (1934). It was another Fox release of that year that made her a star: Stand Up and Cheer. She appeared in eight other full-length films that year, including Little Miss Marker and Bright Eyes. The first of these is especially notable because it was her first starring role. In 1934 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded her with a special miniature Oscar “in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year, 1934.”
Through the rest of the decade Shirley Temple’s star soared. It was not only her adorable dimples and fifty-six corkscrew curls that would keep her at the top of the box office listings. She was a spectacularly talented child, able to sing and dance with style and genuine feeling. Gifted with perfect pitch, she was a legendary quick study who learned her lines and dance routines much faster than her older and more experienced costars.
Unfortunately, little of the built-up popularity would be Temple’s to claim by the time she was an adult. As she reports in her autobiography (a person's own life story), her father’s questionable management of her funds, coupled with both of her parents’ spending, enabled her to enjoy only a fraction of the immense fortune she had earned. By 1940 she had appeared in forty-three feature films and shorts, and an entire industry had sprung up with products celebrating the glories of Shirley Temple: dolls, dresses, coloring books, and other merchandise.
Shirley Temple died in February 2014 at age 85 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The condition was aggravated by the fact that she had been a lifelong smoker, a fact she hid from the public, supposedly not wanting to set a bad example for fans.
Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California, on April 23, 1928. The youngest of three children, her father was a bank teller, who later worked as his daughter's manager and financial advisor when she became famous. As a child Shirley Temple began to take dance steps almost as soon as she began to walk. Her mother began taking her to dancing classes when she was about three and a half years old. She also took her daughter on endless rounds of visits to agents, hoping to secure a show business career. The hard work soon paid off—little Shirley obtained a contract at a small film studio, and one of the great careers in film history began.
Shirley Temple’s first contract was with Educational Pictures Inc., for whom she worked in 1932 and 1933. She appeared in a short movie entitled Baby Burlesks, followed by a two-reeler, Frolics of Youth, that would lead to her being contracted by the Fox Film Corporation at a salary of $150 per week. The first full-length feature that she appeared in for Fox was Carolina (1934). It was another Fox release of that year that made her a star: Stand Up and Cheer. She appeared in eight other full-length films that year, including Little Miss Marker and Bright Eyes. The first of these is especially notable because it was her first starring role. In 1934 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded her with a special miniature Oscar “in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year, 1934.”
Through the rest of the decade Shirley Temple’s star soared. It was not only her adorable dimples and fifty-six corkscrew curls that would keep her at the top of the box office listings. She was a spectacularly talented child, able to sing and dance with style and genuine feeling. Gifted with perfect pitch, she was a legendary quick study who learned her lines and dance routines much faster than her older and more experienced costars.
Unfortunately, little of the built-up popularity would be Temple’s to claim by the time she was an adult. As she reports in her autobiography (a person's own life story), her father’s questionable management of her funds, coupled with both of her parents’ spending, enabled her to enjoy only a fraction of the immense fortune she had earned. By 1940 she had appeared in forty-three feature films and shorts, and an entire industry had sprung up with products celebrating the glories of Shirley Temple: dolls, dresses, coloring books, and other merchandise.
Shirley Temple died in February 2014 at age 85 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The condition was aggravated by the fact that she had been a lifelong smoker, a fact she hid from the public, supposedly not wanting to set a bad example for fans.
Vintage Photos Capture Farewell Scenes at Penn Station in World War II
At the height of the Second World War, in April 1943, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt came to Penn Station and captured the sorrowful farewell scenes between young soldiers and their families. These forlorn figures, who were bidding goodbyes, seemed to anxiously fear that they might never have any chance to reunite with their loved ones after this departure.
Here’s how LIFE described the scenes in its February 14, 1944 issue:
They stand in front of the gates leading to the trains, deep in each other’s arms, not caring who sees or what they think.
Each goodbye is a drama complete in itself, which Eisenstaedt’s pictures movingly tell. Sometimes the girl stands with arms around the boys’ waist, hands tightly clasped behind. Another fits her head into the curve of his cheek while tears fall onto his coat. Now and then the boy will take her face between his hands and speak reassuringly. Or if the wait is long they may just stand quietly, not saying anything. The common denominator of all these goodbyes is sadness and tenderness, and complete oblivion for the moment to anything but their own individual heartaches.
Below are 34 black-and-white photographs capture the farewells at the station:
Here’s how LIFE described the scenes in its February 14, 1944 issue:
They stand in front of the gates leading to the trains, deep in each other’s arms, not caring who sees or what they think.
Each goodbye is a drama complete in itself, which Eisenstaedt’s pictures movingly tell. Sometimes the girl stands with arms around the boys’ waist, hands tightly clasped behind. Another fits her head into the curve of his cheek while tears fall onto his coat. Now and then the boy will take her face between his hands and speak reassuringly. Or if the wait is long they may just stand quietly, not saying anything. The common denominator of all these goodbyes is sadness and tenderness, and complete oblivion for the moment to anything but their own individual heartaches.
Below are 34 black-and-white photographs capture the farewells at the station:
