Alice Denham, rare 1950s book of nude pinup photos of Playmate model GND5736
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Alice Denham. Book of pinup photos, quarto, 24pp, early 1950s. A rare book of nude photos of beautiful Alice Denham, who gained fame as a pinup girl, Playmate model, and author and professor, lover of beat writers. Some creasing and wear, but very good.. The American Hollywood cheesecake glamor pinup reached its peak in WWII. Evelyn Keyes, one of the most popular of the WWII era pinup girls, wrote in "Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister": "It was our patriotic duty to answer the gallant servicemen...with pinup pictures, the nakedest the Hays Office would allow...We females spent hours posing in bathing suits, negligees and shorts, jumping out of candy boxes for Valentine's Day. Posing with turkeys for Thanksgiving, sleighs for Christmas...it made us feel like such good Americans!" They were eagerly collected to be pined up by horny soldiers on their bunks in camps, on ships, on air planes, even on nose cones (giving rise to the term, "nosecone art"). Today these photos, also known as "Cheesecake" are valuable collectors items.
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