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Betty Blue (model)
Betty Blue (August 14, 1931 – August 23, 2000) was an American model and actress and was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. A self-described nudist, Blue was a showgirl at the El Rancho Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas before becoming a Playmate, and posed for other men's magazines before and after joining the ''Playboy'' family. She also did additional nude photo shoots for ''Playboy'', usually anonymously, and can be seen in a mid-1990s topless shot in ''The Playmate Book''. Blue had a limited acting career, mostly in TV commercials and some B-movies. From 1957 to 1963, Blue was married to producer and director Harold Lime. They remarried in 1991. Upon her death from heart failure, her ashes were sprinkled on the grounds of the Playboy Mansion. Filmography * ''Women in Revolt'' (1971) (as Baby Betty) .... Betty ''Not Tonight Henry''(1961) .... Pocahontas See also * List of people in Playboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Memphis, Arkansas
West Memphis is the largest city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26,245 at the 2010 census, ranking it as the state's 18th largest city, behind Bella Vista. It is part of the Memphis metropolitan area, and is located directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee. History Pre-European habitation Native Americans lived in the Mississippi River Valley for at least 10,000 years, although much of the evidence of their presence has been buried or destroyed. The people of the Mississippian Period were the last indigenous inhabitants of the West Memphis area. Mound City Road, located within the eastern portion of the West Memphis city limits, has a marker indicating that the villages of Aquixo (Aquijo) or Pacaha were in the area. Several mounds are still visible. European exploration and settlement Explorers from both Spain and France visited the area near West Memphis. Among those explorers were Hernando de Soto and his men from Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People In Playboy 1953–1959
This list of people in ''Playboy'' 1953–1959 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in ''Playboy'' magazine in the years 1953 through 1959. Not all of the people featured in the magazine are pictured in the nude. The entry in indicates that the issue marks the original appearance of that year's Playmate of the Year (PMOY). 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 See also *List of people in Playboy 1960–1969 *List of people in Playboy 1970–1979 *List of people in Playboy 1980–1989 *List of people in Playboy 1990–1999 * List of people in Playboy 2000–2009 * List of people in Playboy 2010–2020 References {{DEFAULTSORT:People in Playboy 1953-1959 Playboy lists Playboy 1953-1959 Playboy 1953-1959 Playboy ''Playboy'' is an American men's Lifestyle magazine, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Revolt
''Women in Revolt'' is a 1971 American satirical film produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. The film stars Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn, three trans women and superstars of Warhol's Factory scene. It also features soundtrack music by John Cale. This film is notable as the last with Warhol behind the camera. During production from 1970 to 1971, Jackie Curtis insisted that Warhol shoot the film, or she threatened to leave the project. The film satirizes the Women's Liberation Movement, and alludes to Valerie Solanas and the ''SCUM Manifesto''. Plot Holly and Jackie form a small group of "women's libbers." They convince Candy, a wealthy socialite who has an incestous relationship with her brother, to join them at their meetings. The group needs Candy's membership to bring money and "glamour" to their cause. Cast See also * List of American films of 1971 * Andy Warhol filmography Andy Warhol directed or produced nearly 150 films. 148 ---> Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Find A Grave
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience." Volunteers can create memorials, upload photos of grave markers or deceased persons, transcribe photos of headstones, and more. , the site claimed more than 210 million memorials. History The site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton (born in Alma, Michigan) to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum. Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow online visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of ''Playboy'' magazine founder Hugh Hefner who lived there from 1974 until his death in 2017. Barbi Benton convinced Hefner to buy the home located in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, near Beverly Hills. From the 1970s onward the mansion became as the location of lavish parties held by Hefner which were often attended by celebrities and socialites. It is currently owned by Daren Metropoulos, the son of billionaire investor Dean Metropoulos, and is used for corporate activities. It also serves as a location for television production, magazine photography, charitable events, and civic functions. Hefner established the original Playboy Mansion in 1959. It was a 70-room brick and limestone residence in Chicago's Gold Coast, which had been built in 1899. Hefner had founded ''Playboy'' in Chicago in 1953. After he moved to California, his company eventually let the mansion for a nominal rent to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Failure
Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome, a group of signs and symptoms caused by an impairment of the heart's blood pumping function. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, excessive fatigue, and leg swelling. The shortness of breath may occur with exertion or while lying down, and may wake people up during the night. Chest pain, including angina, is not usually caused by heart failure, but may occur if the heart failure was caused by a heart attack. The severity of the heart failure is measured by the severity of symptoms during exercise. Other conditions that may have symptoms similar to heart failure include obesity, kidney failure, liver disease, anemia, and thyroid disease. Common causes of heart failure include coronary artery disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, excessive alcohol consumption, infection, and cardiomyopathy. These cause heart failure by altering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lime
Edward E. "Ted" Paramore III (January 13, 1928 – July 8, 2008) was an American pornographic film director best known by his stage name Harold Lime.Elias, James (1999). ''Porn 101: eroticism, pornography, and the First Amendment.'' Prometheus Books, His father was screenwriter Edward E. Paramore Jr. Reuben Sturman mentored Lime and financed several of his films, including ''The Ecstasy Girls'', ''Amanda by Night'', and ''Society Affairs''.McNeil, Legs, Jennifer Osborne, Peter Pavia (2005). ''The other Hollywood: the uncensored oral history of the porn film industry.'' HarperCollins, Filmography *''Not Tonight Henry'' (1960) *''Everybody Loves It'' (1964) *''The Agony of Love'' (1966) *'' The Girl with the Hungry Eyes'' (1967) *''The Ribald Tales of Robin Hood'' (1969) *''Wild Riders'' (1971) *''The Dirty Dolls'' (1973) *''Young Secretaries'' (1974) *''The Decline and Fall of Lacey Bodine'' (1975) *''Desires Within Young Girls'' (1977) *''Untamed'' (1978) *''Sensual Encounters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B-movies
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music). However, the U.S. production of films intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s. With the emergence of commercial television at that time, film studio B movie production departments changed into television film production divisions. They created much of the same type of content in low budget films and series. The term ''B movie'' continues to be used in its broader sense to this day. In its post-Golden Age usage, B movies can range from lurid exploitation films to independent arthouse films. In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre—the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Pilgrim (model)
Janet Pilgrim (born Charlaine Edith Karalus; June 13, 1934 – May 1, 2017) was an American model who became a Playmate of the Month while employed at ''Playboy's'' corporate office. She was chosen as Playmate of the Month three times: July 1955, December 1955 and October 1956. Miss July 1955 In 1955, ''Playboy'' was in its second year of production and had previously used professional models as Playmates. Karalus worked for Hugh Hefner in the subscription department and agreed to pose for the July 1955 episode in exchange for a new addressograph for the office. Hefner reportedly chose the name "Janet Pilgrim" as to make fun of sexual puritanism The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. P .... Karalus appeared topless with a tuxedo-clad man reported to be Hefner in the back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
