EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Star Pin-ups - Cheesecake

I love vintage star pin-ups. You love star pin-ups too, don't you? Why do we all love star pin-ups? These lovely bathing beauties, those sensual love goddesses from the golden age of Hollywood, sex kitten Brigitte Bardot in a corset... I guess it's not only their beauty but also the fun they have ánd give. Here are 12 vintage star pin-up postcards to make you smile. 


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 502.

In the late 1950s blonde, German Elke Sommer (1940) was a European sex symbol before conquering Hollywood in the early 1960s. With her trademark pouty lips, high cheek bones and sky-high bouffant hair-dos, Sommer made 99 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005. The gorgeous film star was also one of the most popular pin-up girls of the sixties, and posed twice for Playboy magazine.


German Postcard by Krüger, no. 900/272.

Film and TV actress Barbara Valentin (1940-2002) was dubbed the 'German Jayne Mansfield' and a 'Scandal Magnet'. Her résumé includes sexploitation but also art films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Her private life was fodder for the tabloids. Pop star Freddie Mercury was ‘the love of her life’.


German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/391. Photo: Gérard Decaux.

Beautiful Claudia Lebail was a French starlet and Playboy model of the 1960s.


Italian postcard by Rotalcolor, no. 18.

Blonde and curvey Diana Dors (1931-1984) was called ‘The English Marilyn Monroe’, to her disgust. In her own words: “I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain's naughty seaside postcards."


German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/334. Photo: Art Messick.

Exotic starlet Maria-Rosa Rodriguez was the sexy leading lady of a dozen French and Italian films of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her main claim to fame was the Louis de Funès comedy Le grand restaurant (1966).


Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, no. 1.

Italian actress Marisa Allasio was a glamorous starlet who appeared in nearly twenty pictures in the 1950s. She was nicknamed ‘The Italian Jayne Mansfield’. In 1958 her career stopped abruptly when she married and became a countess.


Canadian postcard in the Fan Club Postcard Series, no. 2.

Glamorous English actress Joan Collins (1933) is one of the great survivors of the cinema. She began in the early 1950s as a starlet of the British film. 20th Century Fox brought her to Hollywood as their answer to Elizabeth Taylor.


German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/199. Photo: Gérard Decaux.

Alice & Ellen Kessler (1936) were popular in Europe, especially in Germany and Italy, in the 1950s and 1960s, as a singing, dancing and acting twin. The German sisters are usually credited as the Kessler Twins or Die Kessler-Zwillinge.


Small Romanian collectors card by Cooperativa Fotografia, no. 10.

Film actress, singer and writer Anna Karina (1940) is an icon of the Nouvelle Vague.


German postcard by ISV, no. 11/6.

Beautiful starlet Vanda Hudson (1937-2004) was one of the blond bombshells of the British cinema. She appeared in a dozen films and TV series of the late 1950s and early 1960s.


German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/309. Photo: Bernard of Hollywood.

Danish singer, actress and icon Vivi Bach (1939-2013) was nicknamed ‘the first Danish teenager of Denmark' and 'the Danish Brigitte Bardot’. Although not a very talented actress she appeared in 48 films between 1958 and 1974.


French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 866. Photo: Sam Lévin.

Turkish-French actress and singer Magali Noël acted in French and Italian films between 1951 and 2002. The sexy actress was an object of desire in three masterpieces of Federico Fellini.

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