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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 408. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’…

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  • British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 1281. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Love Finds Andy Hardy (George B. Seitz, 1938). American film actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) had one of the longest careers in cinematic history. Judy Garland (1922-1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. During a career that spanned 45 of her…

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  • French postcard by , no. D 16. Photo: Eric Carpenter / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’ by the…

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  • German postcard by ISV, no. D 16. Photo: Star Press. Lana Turner (1921-1995) was one of the most glamorous superstars of Hollywood’s golden era. One of her first lead roles was in Dancing Co-Ed (1939), a vehicle for bandleader Artie Shaw. The two married a year later. Dubbed ‘the Sweater Girl’ by the press, Turner…

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  • Dutch postcard, no. 3114. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Ziegfeld Girl (Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley, 1941). Glamorous and seductive film star Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was born in Austria. The notorious Czechoslovakian film Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933) made her an international sensation, and MGM’s mogul Louis Mayer invited her to Hollywood where she became ‘the most beautiful…

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  • Dutch postcard, no. 3114. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Ziegfeld Girl (Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley, 1941). Glamorous and seductive film star Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was born in Austria. The notorious Czechoslovakian film Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933) made her an international sensation, and MGM’s mogul Louis Mayer invited her to Hollywood where she became ‘the most beautiful…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt