The Parisian Hostess Pin Up has been living the Pin Up lifestyle for the past 10 years while creating the Handmade Apothecary Brand; The Parisian Hostess, providing Essential Oil products to those that look for a healthier more natural approach to living. Now in its 8th year of business, you can find The Parisian Hostess products in over 40 Boutiques and Spas in the United States. www.TheParisianHostess.com
While she is not creating yummy goodies, she is working professionally as an Emcee of events, Burlesque Class Instructor and empowering woman to feel and look their best!
Editor of the Modern Day Pin Up Magazine - the magazine every Pin Up will be reading! www.ModernDayPinUpMagazine.com
Creator of the Bombshell Academy Bootcamp - where she teaches women how to release their inner Bombshell through hair, makeup, posing and photo shoots.
Owner Glitter Glam Studios- Specializing in Pin Up, Glam and Boudoir Shoots www.glitterglamstudios.com
Television:
TV Norge- Alt for Norge Reality TV Show Season 10: Cast
ESPN- Making the Squad: Miami Dolphins Cheerleader: Cheerleader
American Forces Network- Outside the Gate: Travel Series Host
American Forces Network- Creative Commissary Cooking: Series Host
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Pretty Pin Up by Day and professional Burlesque Performer by night!
Published PNW Redheaded Pin Up. An officially sweatered member of the Capital City Dolls. Active in promoting Equality, Equity, Body Positivity, Inclusivity, Mental Health, Community Outreach, and Vintage Style Not Vintage Values.
Hey, Sugar! My name is Billie Jayne DeVille. I was born and raised a Georgia Peach but I now
call South Carolina my home. I'm a full-time artist/pinstriper and a total sucker for whitewall
tires and big tailfins! When I'm not painting, you can find me cruising in my 53 Chevy, my 55
Cadillac, my 63 T-bird or in the shop getting down and dirty with my 58 Plymouth restoration project! I am also co-owner of Deville Magazine, a quarterly kustom kulture publication available in both print and digital!
I have always had a love of vintage, and with finding the pinup/rockabilly lifestyle, I feel like I have finally found my place in this crazy world!
I'm a mom of six - 3 human kids and 3 dachshund puppies! When I'm not busy at home or modeling, I'm also a professional photographer. My Husband & I own Clearwater Pinup and Boudoir Photography.
Why "Mayzie"?
I am a HUGE Dr. Seuss fan. I have always loved all of his books - I grew up loving thim & have passed the love down to my children. I really wanted to use a name from one of his books, but unfortunately, there were only a handful of names I thought would fit for a pinup name. I ultimately settled on "Mayzie" from "Daisy-Head Mayzie" and "Mayzie La Bird"
Born
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20 September 1934 (age 85)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality
Italian
Other names
Sofia Scicolone
Sofia Lazzaro
Citizenship
Italian, French
Occupation
Actress and singer
Years active
1950–present
Spouse(s)
Carlo Ponti Sr.
(m. 1957; ann. 1962)
(m. 1966; died 2007)
Children
Carlo Ponti
Edoardo Ponti
Relatives
Alessandra Mussolini (niece)
Sofia Villani Scicolone Dame Grand Cross OMRI (Italian: [soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃikoˈloːne]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren (Italian: [ˈlɔːren], English: /ləˈrɛn/), is an Italian film actress. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16 in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples.
At age 15, Loren as Sofia Lazzaro entered the Miss Italia 1950 beauty pageant and was assigned as Candidate #2, being one to the four sharing contestants representing the Lazio region. She was selected as one of the last three finalists and won the title of “Miss Elegance 1950” , while Liliana Cardinale won the title of “Miss Cinema” and Anna Maria Bugliari won the grand title of Miss Italia. She returned in 2001 as president of the jury for the 61st edition of the pageant. In 2010, Loren crowned the 71st Miss Italia pageant winner.[8][9]
Her talents as an actress were not recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women (1961); Loren's performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor or actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance. She holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964) (for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower (1970); The Voyage (1974); and A Special Day (1977). After starting a family in the early 1970s, Loren chose to make only occasional film appearances. Most recently, she has appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Men (1995) and Nine (2009).
Aside from the Academy Award, she has won a Grammy Award, five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Honorary Academy Award in 1991. In 1995, she received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements, one of many such awards. In 1999, Loren was named by the American Film Institute the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She is currently the only living actress and the highest ranked living person on the list.[1]
Born
Rose Louise Hovick
January 8, 1911
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Died
April 26, 1970 (aged 59)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, author, playwright, vedette, dancer, entertainer
Years active
1928–69
Spouse(s)
Robert Mizzy
(m. 1937; div. 1941)
Alexander Kirkland
(m. 1942; div. 1944)
Julio de Diego
(m. 1948; div. 1955)
Children
1
Parent(s)
John Olaf Hovick
Rose Thompson Hovick
Relatives
June Havoc (sister)
Gypsy Rose Lee was born in Seattle, Washington, on January 8, 1911; however, she always gave January 9 as her date of birth. She was known as Louise to her family. Her sister, actress June Havoc, was born in 1912. Their mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, forged various birth certificates for each of her daughters—older when needed to evade varying state child labor laws, and younger for reduced or free train fares. The girls were unsure until later in life what their years of birth were.
Career
Louise's singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without June. Eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as an elegant and witty striptease artist. Initially, her act was propelled forward when a shoulder strap on one of her gowns gave way, causing her dress to fall to her feet despite her efforts to cover herself; encouraged by the audience's response, she went on to make the trick the focus of her performance.
Her innovations were an almost casual stripping style compared to the herky-jerky styles of most burlesque strippers (she emphasized the "tease" in "striptease"), and she brought a sharp sense of humor into her act as well. She became as famous for her onstage wit as for her stripping style, and—changing her stage name to Gypsy Rose Lee—she became one of the biggest stars of Minsky's Burlesque, where she performed for four years. She was frequently arrested in raids on the Minsky brothers' shows. During the Great Depression, Lee spoke at various union meetings in support of New York laborers. According to activist Harry Fisher, her talks were among those that attracted the largest audiences.
In 1937 and 1938, billed as Louise Hovick, she made five films in Hollywood. But her acting was generally panned, so she returned to New York City where she had an affair with film producer Michael Todd and co-produced and appeared in his 1942 musical revue, Star and Garter.
Lee viewed herself as a "high-class" stripper, and she approved of H. L. Mencken's term "ecdysiast", which he coined as a more "dignified" way of referring to the profession. Her style of intellectual recitation while stripping was spoofed in the number "Zip!" in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, a musical in which Havoc had appeared on Broadway, opposite Gene Kelly. Lee performed an abbreviated version of her act (intellectual recitation and all) in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen.
In 1941, Lee authored a mystery thriller called The G-String Murders, which was made into the sanitized 1943 film, Lady of Burlesque starring Barbara Stanwyck. While some assert this was in fact ghost-written by Craig Rice, there are those who claim that there is more than sufficient written evidence in the form of manuscripts and Lee's own correspondence to prove that she wrote a large part of the novel herself under the guidance of Rice and others, including her editor George Davis, a friend, and mentor. Lee's second murder mystery, Mother Finds a Body, was published in 1942. In December 1942, preliminary papers alleging breach of contract were filed in the Supreme Court against Lee by Dorothy Wheelock, associate editor of Harper's Bazaar, alleging that in August 1940 she and Gypsy entered into what Wheelock described as "an oral agreement to collaborate on a joint venture involving the conception, construction, development, writing, and exploitation of a literary work with a burlesque background. The agreement, Miss Wheelock went on, called for a 50:50 split on all income from sale of the book. She charged that she had lined up a publisher for the book when, in November 1940, Gypsy called off the collaboration ... Lee said she turned over notes and other material to Miss Wheelock and that the latter had then written 'a sample book'. However this sample book is not the book that was published, Gypsy declared. She denied any resemblance between Miss Wheelock's book and the book published under her own name, except such similarities might stem from the notes Gypsy turned over to Miss Wheelock. Simon & Schuster agreed to publish the book, Gypsy said, after the first three chapters were shown to them by Janet Flanner, a New York writer". The case was settled out of court.
Born
Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha
9 February 1909
Marco de Canaveses, Portugal
Died
5 August 1955 (aged 46)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place
São João Batista Cemetery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Other names
The Brazilian Bombshell
The Chiquita Banana Girl
A Pequena Notável (in Brazil)
Education
Convent of Saint Therese of Lisieux
Occupation
Singer
dancer
actress
Years active
1928–1955
Spouse(s)
David Alfred Sebastian (m. 1947)
Relatives
Aurora Miranda (sister)
Cecilia Miranda (sister)
Musical career
Genres
Samba
Instruments
Vocals
Labels
RCA
Brunswick Records
EMI-Odeon
Decca Records
PolyGram
Website
www.carmenmiranda.com.br
Signature
During the 1930s Miranda performed on Brazilian radio and appeared in five Brazilian chanchadas, films celebrating Brazilian music, dance, and the country's carnival culture.[4] Hello, Hello Brazil! and Hello, Hello, Carnival! embodied the spirit of these early Miranda films. The 1939 musical Banana da Terra (directed by Ruy Costa) gave the world her "Baiana" image, inspired by African-Brazilians from the northeastern state of Bahia.[5]
In 1939, Broadway producer Lee Shubert offered Miranda an eight-week contract to perform in The Streets of Paris after seeing her at Cassino da Urca in Rio de Janeiro.[6] The following year she made her first Hollywood film, Down Argentine Way with Don Ameche and Betty Grable, and her exotic clothing and Lusophone accent became her trademark.[7] That year, she was voted the third-most-popular personality in the United States; she and her group, Bando da Lua, were invited to sing and dance for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[8] In 1943, Miranda starred in Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here, which was noted for its musical numbers with the fruit hats that became her trademark. By 1945, she was the highest-paid woman in the United States.[9]
Miranda made 14 Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953. Although she was hailed as a talented performer, her popularity waned by the end of World War II. Miranda came to resent the stereotypical "Brazilian Bombshell" image she had cultivated, and attempted to free herself of it with limited success. She focused on nightclub appearances and became a fixture on television variety shows. Despite being stereotyped, Miranda's performances popularized Brazilian music and increased public awareness of Latin culture.[10] In 1941 she was the first Latin American star to be invited to leave her hand and footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and was the first South American honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[11] Miranda is considered the precursor of Brazil's 1960s Tropicalismo cultural movement.[12] A museum was built in Rio de Janeiro in her honor,[13] and in 1995 she was the subject of the documentary Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business.[14]
Pinup * Burlesque // Performer & Producer
Shellie Schmals hearts the arts!! She's a pin up lovin' - microphone holdin' - event hustlin' - dynamo, who can be seen around town mixing up the worlds of film, art, fashion and comedy.
As a talent wrangler and producer/emcee, she's involved in many projects including Roxie Roz burlesque, Small Secret Things, #TheABCDShow; has collaborated as an emcee or worked on stage crew for productions by Syrens of the South, Ariel Allegro, Evangeline Laveau, The FANDom Nerdlesque, Sadie Hawkins, Glitter Goddess Productions, Trashy Diva, Trixie Minx Productions; and is a proud member of the Georgia Pinup Posse and Women in Film & Television Atlanta, where Shellie sits on the Board of Directors as Secretary, coordinates the WIFTA panels at Dragon Con 2020 (Film Track), and co-chairs the annual #WIFTAConfab (short film & talent showcase).
Shellie's column, "My Adventures in Burlesque" debuted in the March 2020 issue of The Georgia Hollywood Review.
As an internationally published pinup, Shellie has been featured in:
* VoyageATL, Art & Life section
* Cat's Pajamas Magazine
* Georgia Pinup Posse Calendar, 2018, 2019, 2020
* Tres' Jolie Magazine
* DeVoe Magazine (Cover Model)
* The Cat's Meow Magazine
* Classy Keen Issue #2
* Girls of Relapse Calendar 2012, 2013
* Vintage Vixens Magazine, Premiere Issue
* The Cat's Meow Magazine: Pre-Furred Pin-up
* Jezebel Magazine: "Street Style" Featured Model
* Atlanta Street Fashion: Featured Model
* Portraits By Shannon Jenkins: Featured Model
* The Cat's Meow Magazine: Featured Pin-Up
* ScoutMob Atlanta: Creative Eye
* CommonCreativ Magazine: 50 Most Creative Atlantans
* ATLRetro.com: Kool Kat of the Week
When Kimmie isn’t at the beach, she’s buying vintage goodies, browsing antique cars, or getting baby dolled up for a pin up contest.
Kimmie is a member of the North Florida Luscious Ladies.
Konnichiwa from Kimmie Khaos. I am a curvy Luscious Lady who loves traveling, antiques, classic cars, and music with soul. My passions are beach life, biology, and babies. The pinup culture allows me the opportunity to share my platform of “Loving The Skin You Are In”with my community. The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.