From 1956: Stunning Kim Novak

A double-clicker if there ever was one!

Here is a clip from my favorite movie, Strangers When We Meet, from 1960. It stars the lovely Miss Novak opposite Kirk Douglas. I especially love the bit at the very end of this clip. Notice how Richard Quine implies that quite a good time was had by the lovers in the hotel room, without showing a stitch of any real nudity, no gyrations, nothing tawdry. If you have the chance to catch this enchanting film, DO. It pops up on Turner Classic from time to time.

Using Sybil To Sell Breakfast Cereal

Product 19 was introduced in 1967 and is apparently still in limited production today.

The Rejoinder: "Buzz Off, Kid! I Gots Twenty-Two More Of These Here Things To Install Before I Can Go Home To The Missus And Listen To Her Nag!"

I hate including vintage goodies without a date, but from the looks of it, my guess would be around 1950. Postwar prosperity, the child looks like Rhoda Penmark's slightly mentally handicapped older sister, the Tide packaging is in the Fifties' style (in 1960, the dot over the I was changed to bright orange).

It's a lousy double-clicker, too,

but I think you see all that you really need to see.

Plum Tuckered Out? Cure Yourself...The 1960s Way! (No, Not By Ingesting Large Amounts Of Dolls.)

1960

"Hmmmm...I'm exhausted, but I still had the energy to go see the girls down at the beauty parlor, and I have my earrings on. A gal's gotta have standards, you know, even if she is tired."

From 1979: Because Sanitary Napkins Five Days Out Of The Month Just Isn't Enough Discomfort For The Modern Seventies Woman

People

February 12, 1979

(In the top shot, is that the World Trade Center in the background?)

My Blue Heaven

1962

A particularly gorgeous double-click.

Every Week When You Wash Your Hair

No date on this one. I'm guessing the post-war forties. You know, everyone was done fighting Hitler; now they were ready to put that all-American ingenuity and know-how into fighting The Itchy Dictator also known as The Scalp.

Double click to read about how YOU can guard against

the "infectious dandruff" menace.

Love That Red

Behold, Janice Dickinson: THIS is the world's first supermodel.

I wonder if Revlon's iconic "Love That Red" shade was named for the lovely coppertop Suzy Parker?

As always, double-click for your close-up, Mr. DeMille.

From November 1980: Stink Like A Recently Divorced Whore Caught Up In The Urban Cowboy Craze

Cosmopolitan

November 1980

Jenny Boyd Gets A Haircut From Vidal Sassoon, 1966

I especially love Jennifer Juniper's naturally red locks.

Glamourous 1950's Poster For Las Vegas, Via TWA

I love vintage travel posters.

I'm guessing that this one is from the Fifties,

as the plane pictured is a Constellation.

Kate Gosselin: An Astonishing Likeness

Give Hate Gosselin "a beautiful dress" on a wire hanger and tell Tootsie Roll to put down the Starbucks cup and I think we'd have an amazing likeness.

Then again, St. Joan of Crawford never would have been caught dead outside in a ball cap. Neither would have Faye Dunnaway as St. Joan of Crawford.

Or with that godawful haircut, come to think of it.

Trans World Airlines: Truly One Of The Aviation Greats

1952

Double-click for the text

Twiggy, 1968

by Richard Avedon for Vogue

Or, You Could Just Score Some Boxes From The Loading Dock Of The Local A&P, Cut 'Em Up Into Bite Size Bits, And Swab A Little Peanut Butter On Those

People

May 19, 1986