OF QUEENS may han 1961 YEARBOOK =DSSS 9SSIIIDIVIEIVINDIVOVOD DD VOLUME TWENTY TWOINTR ODUCTION N THE FOLLOWING PAGES, we are pre- tenting some of the world’s most beautiful women — a galaxy of heavenly bodies who ‘ore currently reigning supreme in MODERN MAN's pulchritude heaven. They are all queens in the truest meaning of the word and they all have two things in common — talent and strik- ing beauty. As any discerning modem male can see, they have there two coveted commod ties in abundance. The showcases from which these glamour gems have sparkled and gli tered are the fobulous worlds of the silver screen, television, the stage and modelling, These girs, individually and collectively, have tiracted literally thousands of fans and ad: mirers on their climbs to the top of the heap tnd any accolades are richly deserved. So let the band sound out a fonfare and let the spot- light form on illuminating circle, They reign supreme — with no challengers in sight. CONTENTS MOVIE QUEENS 4 Jayne Mansfield ‘6 Elizabeth Taylor 10 ‘Marilyn Monroe 13 FOREIGN QUEENS 16 Anita Ekberg 18 Sophio Loren 2 Diana Dors 24 Brigite Bardot 7 MODEL QUEENS 30 leis Bristol 32 Virginia Gordon 34 Terry Higgins 36 Karen Klovs 38 CABARET QUEENS 0 June Wilkinson 2 Sheika Moter 45 TELEVISION QUEENS 48 Julie Newmar 50 Joan Bradshaw 53 Fay Spain 56 QUEENS OF TOMORROW |... 58 MOVIES — Joan Tabor rd MODEL — Marie Smythe 2 TV ~ Beverly Scott 64 FOREIGN ~ Ziva Rodan 6 Cover is Bristol (Russ Meyer) 3Ba UR MOVIE QUEENS FEMININITY abounds in Hollywood in such profusion ond proportions that most men would fold under the eyestrain of selecting three queens from its botch of curvy contenders. No doubt even a heavy-duty Univac, confined but to one studio, would blow c its math circuits if fed the numbers of the actresses who are glued together like rs CRU ee a ae a aT a Sear Rea eee ae eee ei Sue art ene ae ate ee RARE eR ce ae eRe a nee ir ete Ce ee re ot cena near eT YN queen for the third year, continues public life in attire meant for private showing. Liz, an ex-child star who once made horse pictures, has grown to the point where her films in- volve some sexsational horsing around. And Marilyn, who jilted A. Miller, jolted the Public in The Misfits, visited « mental clinic and ex-husband Joe DiMaggio, is once ogain the destination of thousands of fan males. All of which means today’s hot topics could Cn ee eesPed en ek kk UUW OC}OLLYWOOD'S GILDED post, faces which captivated the mosters of mass hypnosis have flashed meteoric: the silver sereen. In those days, acting was the personalities like Greta Garbo, Helen Hayes, and © gave such commanding performances that their 8s could not have been distracted if Queen ny doing @ pagan fertility dance yne Mansfield, and things changed. No long quiste for a movie star. Jayne's form of y % more simply exerted: she leaves them inhaling. And who cares? While Jayne cennot fill the shoes of the Bergman-Garbo-Hayes types, neither can they fill her sweaters, 1ugh Jayne's approach to the public is less hypnotizing then hip-teating, it is a good bet that had Joyne been in the balcony no one today would have heard of a ¥ y 7Smiling for newspaper photographers (above, lett), Jayne rounds up opening night publicity on stage of Tropicano. Ingrid, Helen, or Greta. With the awesome structure of o well-curved, monumental work of art, Jayne is indeed o physical wonder However, while Jayne's commanding oll-over prafile hos made her much in demand, a bit more wos needed to put her over as @ full-fledged movie queen. For this, Jayne has other tolents besides her obvious feminine accoutrements and most important is her natural flair for subliminel advertising, Never one to hide her 41-inch bust behind a high collor dress, she is clso an expert in the area known as “imagery Recently, Jayne ottempted to further broaden her image ‘that is, literally speaking os opposed to figure-atvely) with TV appearances on This Is Your life and the Jeckie Glee: Show. Here, she down-played her sex (much te the rele censor-conscious TV veeps) and up-played her wit, ad-lib bing through both half-hour shows to emerge os o clever, good-natured sport. Playing the violin on Gleason's show, she gained more laughs than applause, and smiled toothily with humility despite the fact she tokes her fiddle very se riously, having been a child prodigy on the instrument. 8 8 a result, her exuberant efforts drew sympathy and respes from many former skeptics who earlier had accused he Creating eye-popping poolside ottraction (lett). Joyn kini-clad figuee ie rore conversation piece for Califor £006 OO6600000460646440080000040040To ls hehe I ea Poses sss sIy eels. Wearing modified version of dress from film Too Hot to Hondle, Jayne (above) flabbergasted Las Vegas spectators. being no more than @ superb, but empty, shell All this, of courte, fits into Jayne's master plan of world jomination. At the outset, she concentrated on over-throw: American moles, then launched herself on South Amer- her triumph was so total that she precipitated an ht riot among enraptured Brazilians who could not be- © their eyes until they had torn away her clothes. On the front, she discovered that she wat making even impressions than in America, (In all fairness, though, pointed out that Europeans naturally found chanting, having seen much more of her by the Continental vs, U.S. versions of fo Handle, in which Joyne wears o net the vital zones only by sequins. In the Jayne had fewer sequins) campaign, which she is now working the few remaining skeptics, mostly ‘emphasizing her home life. While be determined just what such a pro- hing is known for certain: this gal so pretty spicy dish herself woes, Mansfield > Handle Filing. tle Provoking legal problem costume (right), made TooE&isabeth Taylor Universal Pictures and released less thon © year later. Her eyes, it hod been decided by the bigwigs, were too old for @ child star. “The kid's ‘90! nothing,” one director said Today that statement has @ place among such I’ 1939, A SEVEN-year-old girl was signed to @ movie contract with classic exomples of mis ivdgement as Napoleon's Russian campaign and Hitler's withdrawal from the Battle of Britain. The kid who had nothing wos Elizabeth Taylor, For her latest film ~ Cleopatra, in which she is slated for the title role liz received @ cool $1 milion, the biggest basket of cloms ever paid to o woman in motion picture history. But it would not buy half of her over $2 million worth of jewelry. It is therefore no overstatement to say she hos ‘arrived” and no crime to make her MM's “Queen Elizabeth.” Uz Toylor was born in London on February 27, 1932, which makes he: 29 today — ond probably 29 for the rest of her career. Her father, Francis Taylor, was an American ort deoler peddling paintings all over Europe. At the stort of World Wor I, the Taylors moved to Beverly Hills, and liz's mother, Sora, immediately became her theatrical agent. She prodded tiz into the Universal contract, and after that fizzled, arranged @ test with MGM. This time, Liz went over like helium bolloon, and she was hired for the now all-butimmortal Lassie Come Home. The epie tear-jerker set @ precedent for a number of Elizabeth's dog ond horse pictures, which in the glare of her more recent celluloid sexeapades, make it hard believe thot the hal-pint Liz ond the two-gallon Liz are the some The first inkling thot Liz's interests were shifting from furry to furs on her back was when she entered the studio commisso first half-mast blouse. Lis's beauty had blossomed Her first date was provided by the studio: Marshall Thompson (come stor of TV's Angel series) who gave 15-year-old Liz her first kia TLMAGQAAAAANATTITTEAAAARAANMAMAANANM ATMA MAA enPteorerrereeee8 Cat on @ Hot Tin Roof (below). on her first Oscor’ in ButterfieldThe rest of the Liz Taylor story reads like a morning soap opera, At 18 she married Nicky Hilton, heir to the hotel fortune, and let MGM pay the tab as a publicity gim mick for Liz's movie Father of the Bride. The run of the film eosily out-distanced the eight-month marriage. In 1952, Liz married a British actor twice her age, an cold friend, Michael Wilding. While still married to Wilding, Liz met another Mike at @ yacht party, and the old marriage: go-round was off again. Claiming she had found love for the first time, Liz married Mike Todd within hours of her divorce from Wilding and seven months later presented him with a baby girl, her third child by Caesarian section, After March, 1958, when Todd was killed in a plane crash ‘on the only occasion Liz had not been with him, Todd's With Mike Todd, Liz found love for first time, Leaving London hospital (above), Liz is photographed ctter her recent virus infection which eventually. devel ‘ped into double pneumonia. Her illness halted production fon new film Cleopatra for fourth time, nearly killed her. closest friend, Eddie Fisher, joined Liz to share her grief jn New York. Fisher's 14-day extension of o four-day busi ness trip made headlines and toppled his already tottering marriage to Debby Reynolds. Liz and Eddie were married 10 hours after his divorce was final Immediately, Liz leorned her love for Fisher brought hate from friends. An outcast, she could not have won a popularity contest against Benedict Amold. The press accused her of faking illness when she stopped production ‘on Cleopatra four times, and only dovble pneumonia con: vinced them otherwise. But when she won an Oscar for Butterfield 8, after calling it “a piece of obscenity,” she received a standing ovation as she stumbled to the stage in 4 leg cost and diamond throat bandage. Today, Liz is the cress most wonted by producers. And the woman most watched — and odmired — by all red-blooded men. 12 AVLANAANANA TE TERA KAKA ee Ae eanantecerocercecenee -Rehearsing donce act for film, River of No Return, Marilyn wears a figure revealing me thot started “adult” western craze Movie wes made toon after calendar uproor. HEN MARILYN MONROE was only Norma Jean Baker cond a frizzy-haired moppet in a Los Angeles gram. ‘mar school, she was a tall, weedy, and bony tom: boy. In the school plays like Halloween Night ond Flowers of Spring, her ungitlishness won her only roles as © boy prince, boy villain, or on oak tree. But somewhere Between grammar school and high school, there wos o shitting in the location of her muscles. And today, os on mternational movie queen ond goddess of sex worshipped men on seven continents, Marilyn Monroe could never gain be presented os a boy; especially since the fullest evidence of her sex — that celebrated calendar — has be we the American man’s most coveted document since his le discharge papers, Bet the Monroe calendar did more than estoblish her as n without question. It set @ precedent that hos been med by more fame-hungry actresses than there are in Goldwyn’s scrapbook. Uncovered photographs since ‘eleosed of Elaine Stewart, Sophia Loren, Anite ca, Stella Stevens, Tina Lovise, Fay Spain ‘curse Joyne Mansfield, 1o name only 0 few. Rather com the careers of such illustrious cinema sex bombs, undraped figures have — as in the case hed them firmly in the firmament. The pened a new area of fame exploitation of the public when Marilyn graduated from a home lymood school of hard knocks. Work se inspector for the Radio Plane Company, her meoger income by posing in swim inwups ond magazine covers. Her Jean Dougherty as a result of a 2 Van Nuys High school chum. Her ght the eyes of 20th Century-Fox signed to @ one-year contract cover girl photos moguls, ond During that Morilyn hod o bit part in one film, 13Chatting in scene from Lets Make love with Yves ‘Mentand, Marilyn hod more spectators than listeners Seudda Hoo, Scudde Hoy, but in the typical hard-luck fashion of mony sudden “discoveries,” her section of cellu- loid ended up on the cutting room floor. No more roles were found for Marilyn, and she was dropped. Her brief flame of fame flickered and almost went out For the next several years, Marilyn monaged to get a few more movie bits amounting to walk-ons (or in the case ‘of Love Hoppy, it was a chase-across by Groucho Marx), but she continued to rely on modeling to pay for her peanut butter sandwiches. By 1950, she had cornered two meaty roles in Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. The parts were © long way from making her a star, but the had become known just well enough to throw in her trump card. “4 a Smiling ot press conference (above), Marilyn told reporters after divorce from DiMaggio that she would fone down sex, play more serious roles. But in latest film, The Misfits, she is more provocative thon ever In 1951, Marilyn wiggle-walked into the studios with on ormful of outdated calendars and posted them out to stage hands, actors, and directors. She said she modeled for photographer Tom Kelly when she needed $50 for rent And the only thing she wore was perfume, The reaction was heard ‘round the globe. Shortly fter, when Marilyn starred in Gentlemen P, Blondes, it became obvious that all men men pr Marilyn. Her following films, How fo Marry © Million River of No Return, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, © pulled in receipts that had to be carted off in Brinks’ In 1954, Marilyn again made heedlines by wal ‘on Pink Tights ond into wedlock with Joe DiMagoic. & HAAAAANA TT TERA A ARAMA EE ANOOO TEEPE eeee eAppecring in Some like it Hot (above), Marilyn com: peted with “girl” ployed by Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis. cothlete 10 an intellect, Marilyn married Miller in June, 1956. Except for the ot and Let's Make Love, she disop- ever, Miller wrote an ode to Marilyn character and called it The Misfit. file or just bored by Miller, Marilyn tend when last seen, she was bock making the scene with DiMaggio. At any rate, if it wos the title that bugged her, itis understandable; no one who looks at the way Marilyn packs into her clothes could call her @ misfit ond get away with it! °athe ST ea ate) at FOREIGN MOVIES (@ hdd eo oa a Cee rete a Coe re een) this year’s sensvous sovereigns are no newcomers to accolades and © ‘wards, no Joanie-Come-Lately has come along to usurp their gilded = thrones. Regally ruling the foreign beauty scene ore these perennial es oe ee ee a en a Ce ee ee at ee thot here ore four queens that are pretty hard to beat. E Si + S + ’ oi 7 + + * o + ¥ - ‘ 5 7ADILEKBERG Regally sensuous quolitior of famed Swedish film ‘actress come through with devastating effectiveness vehother in cheesecake photograph by de Dienes (above), or in candid shot (lef), taken on film set swept down from the chilly clime of Sweden fond landed on the Hollywoodian shores to write new exotic pages in filmland history. During the late ‘20s and ‘30s, Greta Garbo sizzled the silver screen with her throaty bedroom voice. Aiter her came Ingrid Bergman, whose red-hot af- feir with Roberto Rosellini made international head- lines. But the last Scendinavion import has proven to be the tostiest dish of them all. She is, of course, the bosomy, blonde sexsation Anita Ekberg. Anita stormed the U.S. early in the ‘$08 to vie in the Miss Universe contest. She did not win, but she soyed behind to take the route to film stardom via © cheesecake modeling stint. Cast, but lamentably covered up, in Blood Alley, Anita nevertheless was exposed enough to warrant more exposure — in other films, that is. Her fist big role came in Wor ond Peoce, where she played 0 regal, uninhibited countess. From there it was literally the sky's the limit with her carser. She proved her stellar qualities in Zorak, An Englishman in Lo: Vegas, Artists and Models, and her latest film, Lo Dolce Vita, is currently causing a storm of controver in Rome. In this flick Anita portrays a footloose foney American movie stor in Rome, Tz TIMES @ storm of sexy smorgaibord has Anito’s classically sculptured features, ore not the only attributes that hove — BAS OOOO464 OH HEHAHAHAD ADMD OQQDODDAAGDOAAHHADELADOCHE COLO OCLOSPosing provocotively on bannister (right), ‘or hiding coyly behind fowel (below), Anita reveals cure vaceous body that made her a stor. fome. Risking her exalted position in filmdom, Anita hos been one of the most outspoken ectresses of all time. And very few of her acid opinions have endeared her to the fe: male population, especially her remarks on virginity (against it) and motherhood (also against it). Her brief marriage to Anthony Steel, top British octor, tond her famous nude poses for a Hungarian sculptor did le to dim the aurora borealis that is Anita’s glow in the cinema firmament. Neither, for that matter, did her sizzling ‘off-stage performances at several Rome soirees. At one of those famous headline-making flings, the super-sensval Anita curled the pizza circuits upper crust with o bro- busting version of the Charleston @ few years ago. One of her latest bashes even out-did thot. Bare-chested, the ini mitable Ekberg bongoed her way through a torrid Afro. Cuban rendition of a voodoo dance. ‘Only a real queen of the foreign flicks can afford to play that kind of regally uninhibited role in life. Anita hos i, in spades, and she is way out in front, erally and figure- tively, chead of the curvy court of Swedish delights, un- challenged in looks, talent, or temperament. 20 Discussing picture plans, Anita enjoys joke with British comedian, Norman W: dom, covstar of Englishman in Los Ve CPT TRGRGANG Coeeoaneeanaanaaaacacanaracesnnescnannaanrnanillies who adorn the silver seers of holy in ony glomour conclave in RE ewe to bring on oy, bo ol SOPHIA profes Hall pee LOREN © burst out of a ragged low-cut peasant Stout And. for the most part, this impression is well sie Ke he Holion film industry has marched to notional fome with a brigade of such busty doll ny INTRODUCING Leas amie tage d greta ey nvr in aid a nn a at et tts tt mela et mT eye) eee en er er) a ae)