Archive for the ‘WW2 Pin Up Girls’ Category
Jan 19
Deanna Durbin Yank Pin Up Girl – January 19, 1945
Deanna Durbin was born Edna Mae Durbin on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her British-born parents moved to California while she was still young, and her singing voice soon had talent scouts knocking at her door.→ Read more
Jan 07
Linda Darnell – Yank Pin Up May 12, 1944
Linda Darnell, was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, in Dallas, Texas on October 16, 1923. She was one of five children of a post office worker and his wife. A Texas-born beauty, her mother encouraged her to model.→ Read more
Jan 05
Janis Carter – YANK Magazine Pin Up 5 January 1945
Janis Carter January 5, 1945 Yank Pin UP was an established singer, star of stage and screen and later television star. She was born on October 10, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio.→ Read more
Dec 29
Colleen Townsend Yank Pin Up Girl – December 29, 1944
Colleen Townsend Yank Pin Up Girl was born on December 21, 1928 in the Los Angeles area and started her career at Twentieth Century Fox in 1947 at the age of 18.→ Read more
Nov 09
Vivian Austin WWII Yank Pin Up – November 9, 1945
Vivian Austin was born Vivian Coe on February 23, 1920 in Hollywood, California. A former Miss Hollywood and a dancer, this Universal contract starlet of the 1940s entered films as a Goldwyn Girl in "The Goldwyn Follies" (1938).→ Read more
Oct 23
Frances Vorne Yank Pin-Up Girl of the Year 1945
Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself "The Shape", wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year.→ Read more
Oct 22
Gloria DeHaven Yank Pin Up
Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven.→ Read more
Oct 20
Elyse Knox Yank Pin Up Girl October 20th 1944
Born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath on December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut. She studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion in Manhattan then embarked on a career in fashion design.→ Read more
Oct 18
Esther Williams – YANK Pin-up Girl Oct. 1945
Born in Los Angeles, California, on August 8, 1921. Sometimes called “America’s Mermaid,” Esther Williams helped popularize synchronized swimming through a string of hugely popular films in the 1940s and 1950s.→ Read more
Oct 12
Francis Rafferty: Yank Pin Up October 12, 1945
Francis was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on June 16, 1922. As the Depression took its hold on America, her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 9 in search of work.→ Read more
