Promo photo of American film actress Alice White, née Alva White, who appeared in around forty films, including the original Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, seen here circa 1928 in the mode of Clara Bow, to whom she was often compared. 

Photo of Hawaiian-born actress, singer and model Agnes Lum, aka Lum-chan, who during the late 1970s was a star in Japan and one of the most recognizable sex symbols in the world. She specialized in "gravure", a Japanese style of provocative but nudity-free modeling, and most images feature her in the above mode—as an embodiment of summertime. 

Promo photo of American actress Barbara Stanwyck, indisputably one of film and television's greatest and most enduring stars, circa mid-1930s.

August 1960 calendar shot of Diane Webber, whose specialization in nudist and health publications made her one of the most photographed models of the sixties. 

Promo photo of Austrian actress Maria Perschy from the West German action flick Die Pagode zum fünften Schrecken, aka Five Golden Dragons, 1960. 

American actress Laraine Day, who starred in The Locket with Robert Mitchum and in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, seen here circa early ’40s.

Promo photo of French actress Marina Vlady, née Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff, circa 1955. Vlady began her film career as a typical bombshell and even earned the nickname “Miss Body of 1960”, but she went on to become an award-winning actress. 

Promo photo of American actress Raquel Welch practicing her penalty shots. Too bad she didn’t take that kick for Ghana against Uruguay—our favorite team would still be in the World Cup. Alas, now we have no choice but to back Spain. 

French-born actress Carole André, whose role in the Italian b-movie Yor: the Hunter from the Future, aka Il mondo di Yor, made her a cult favorite among the sword and sorcery set. 

Algerian-born French actress-turned-astrologer Elizabeth Teissier, shown here in a shot originally published in the French nudie magazine Lui, circa 1975.