American actress Christa Lang is known for her many collaborations with director and husband Samuel Fuller, including The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, Underworld U.S.A., and his underrated racial drama White Dog. She also appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up Doc? and  has already wrapped The Queen of Hollywood Blvd., to be released later this year. The above shot, showing her in front of a backdrop depicting Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s famous sculpture "La danse," which is located on the façade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, appeared in the Spanish magazine Triunfo in 1965

Since we were just talking about May Britt a few days ago, it seems like a good time to share this photo of her that appeared in the Spanish magazine Triunfo. Her name was spelled “Mai” in the magazine, and apparently it's pronounced “my,” not “may.” This shot dates from 1965.

European publishers, like Italy’s Tecnografica, often used celebrities on their book covers. Here’s a favorite example—Swiss actress Ursula Andress on the cover of the illustrated giallo Invito alla violenza, by Hugh Pentecost, aka Judson Pentecost Phillips, aka Phillip Owen. The shot is from a 1965 photo series, another frame of which appeared in Spain’s Triunfo magazine. We don’t know whether the series was shot for Triunfo and rented by Tecnografica, or vice-versa. Possibly neither. It could have been shot as a promo series and sold to both Triunfo and Tecnografica. Alternatively, maybe Tecnografica simply appropriated the image. We only suggest that because we can’t think of any reason Ursula Andress would have needed to gnaw grass on the cover of a cheapie giallo three years after she appeared in Dr. No. Maybe we’ll find out the answer to that one later. In the meantime, we’re working on an aggregate post of celeb covers, which we’ll get up soon. 

Update: Rafael wrote in with this: I suggest that these are promotional photos for 4 for Texas (USA 1963), freely appropriated by magazines everywhere.

And indeed he is right. Once we knew the movie we found many more promo shots of Andress wearing the same outfit.  4 for Texas also starred Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, as well as Anita Ekberg, which all sounds worthwhile to us. We will defnitely screen a copy of it. Thanks Rafael, for the help.

We love the Spanish lifestyle magazine Triunfo mainly because of its colorful centerfolds. This great image shows television star Ana Maria Solsona, and was published in October 1963. See more great Triunfo images by clicking its keyword below. 

Above, Italian actress Rosanna Schiaffino, who was known as “the Italian Hedy Lamarr” and appeared in the notable films Piece of the Sky and La sfida, seen here in three pages from the Spanish magazine Triunfo, 1963 and 1964. Schiaffino died today in 2009. 

American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie plays at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, during the summer of 1964. We found this shot in an old copy of the Spanish culture magazine Triunfo. 

Gia Lindström, who you see here in a great image from the Spanish magazine Triunfo, is the daughter of legendary Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman. Lindström’s career in cinema was not quite as storied as her mom’s—she appeared in three films in the mid-1960s, and after a decades long hiatus punctuated by a bit role in a 1996 movie, resurfaced as a television host in 2005. Why she’s called Gia here we don’t know, because her real name and the name she acted under is Pia. Every search we do on “Gia Lindström” comes up empty, which tells us she never used the name anywhere except in this single photo. And yes, we’re sure—at least 95%—that Gia and Pia are the same person. But it wouldn’t be the first time we were wrong, so if you have better info, feel free to e-mail us. This image is from February 1966.  

1963 publicity photo from the Spanish magazine Triunfo of Spanish actress Paloma Valdés, who appeared in numerous films and television shows during the sixties before giving up acting to concentrate on music. 

French actress Mylène Demongeot, seen here glowing in the centerspread of the progressive Spanish magazine Triunfo, published December 1966.