![LOST IN HER EYES](/images/headline/5330.png) If you're not careful you could spend eternity in there. ![](/images/postimg/lost_in_her_eyes.jpg)
Two limpid pools? Windows to the soul? Any and all descriptions apply to this photo of U.S. actress Arlene Dahl. It was made during a 1954 make-up test when she was preparing to co-star in Woman's World with June Allyson and Lauren Bacall. We have another interesting image of her on a Technicolor lithograph. Look here.
![BOATLOAD OF QUESTIONS](/images/headline/3137.png) This particular Gondel is filled with unidentified passengers. ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_01.jpg)
Back in 2010 we showed you some covers of the West German movie magazine Gondel, named of course after Venice’s famed banana-shaped boats. Which is fitting because Gondel later began to dedicate itself to a completely different type of banana shape by turning into a porn magazine. You see, because a banana and an erect penis are both… er… filled with potassium… *someone turns on a blender behind the bar* Anyway, it was in the 1970s when Gondel shifted gears, and theirs wasn’t an uncommon evolution among magazines around that time, as we’ve talked about before regarding the men’s adventure publication Male. Above you see the front of an issue that hit newsstands this month in 1958, and below are the interiors. The cover model is credited as Marlon Rota, as you can see by looking at masthead page where it says “titelfoto,” but no person so named ever appeared in movies. It’s possible her name is spelled wrong, because others are, but we checked similar names such as Marilyn Rota and Marlene Rota and came up blank. It’s also possible she’s just too obscure to register on the internet. So that’s another of History’s Little Mysteries™. There are others. Inside the issue you get full-page shots of, top to bottom, Anne Heywood, Merry Anders, Rita Pizzy, Clark Gable with Jean Kay, Maggie McGrath, Elga Andersen, Nuccia Morelli, Yvonne de Carlo with Robert Morgan, unknown, Margarete Neumann, Linda Cristal, Karin Himboldt, Joan Collins, unknown, Pascale Roberts, Belinda Lee with unknown, Annie Gorassini, Anne Heyworth, Mamie Van Doren, unknown, and Arlene Dahl. Got any idea who the mystery passengers are? Let us know, and meanwhile check out the Gondel covers at this link. ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/boatload_of_questions_25.jpg)
![HOLLYWOOD SWINGING](/images/headline/2776.png) Everybody who was anybody got inside. ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_01.jpg)
Above and below, scans from the French show-biz and showgirl magazine Paris-Hollywood, issue 26, from 1948. The front cover features Marguerite Chapman, the rear Arlene Dahl, and in between you get Cyd Charisse, Patricia Roc, Martha Vickers, Alexis Smith, Anne Jeffreys, Luce Feyrer, Edwige Feuillère, Marlene Dietrich, and other luminaries. That's quite a collection of celebs. In upcoming years the magazine would spend more time on cabaret dancers, but its early issues were all about international stars. We picked up a few of these in Paris a while back and we’ll get to some detailed scans of those soon. In the meantime, you can see more from Paris-Hollywood here, here, and here. ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/hollywood_swinging_19.jpg)
![LIVING DAHL](/images/headline/2462.png) Scientific denialism with a smile. ![](/images/postimg/living_dahl.jpg)
Did you know scientific studies have conclusively proven that horizontal stripes are fattening? The solution, it seems, is to look excellent already so you can wear anything you want. This truth is demonstrated by Arlene Dahl, above, who starred in movies such as Reign of Terror, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Fortune Is a Woman, and appears here on a Technicolor lithograph from 1953. Who knew scientific denialism could be so fun?
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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