Paris-Hollywood Magazine: Part One 1950s

One of the most important "international" men's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s was Paris-Hollywood, later to be known as Folies de Paris et de Hollywood. An oversized publication from Paris, where each week its readers were treated to a seductive selection of busty, voluptous models, beautifully printed in toned gravure.

Conceptually this was nothing new. However, the French photographers working for the magazine and the photographs imported from the U.K. had a certain European "je ne sais quoi", that appears to be the selection of exceptional models and the weekly "special" features.

In the earliest days of the magazine, the main feature was the American movie stars on the covers + composite layouts featuring them inside: Jane Russell, Betty Grabel, Virginia Mayo, Yvonne De Carlo, et al. When the mandate of the magazine's title wore thin, the movie stars slowly disappeared, replaced by increasing seductive models, wearing less and less! The magazine's editors subsequently created numerous other very popular features over the years including: sequential strip-tease series, 3-D photo layouts (with glasses in each magazine), gate-fold pin-up illustrations by Brenot and the marvelous "pin-up deshabillable" (undressable pin-up) with glassine overlay, the  dressed/undressed pin-up.

French photographers included Roland Carre, Serge Jacques and Andre Belorgey. The U.K. photos were from two of the best: Harrison Marks and Russell Gay from whom many of the photographs of most well endowed, busty babes originated. Although the magazine started in the 1940s, I am concentrating on the 1950s and 1960s and will post it in two parts.

Above: Esther Williams, circa late 1940s

Betty Grabel cover, circa late 1940s.

3-D features and glasses.

Special NUS COULEUR Issue 100 Photographs

Special feature NUITS DE BROADWAY

Special feature MINUIT A PARIS. June Wilkinson cover.

Lili Christine cover

Special feature PIN-UP DESHABILLABLE

Special feature BELLES DE NUIT. Tempest Storm cover.

June Wilkinson above

Special issue NUS D'ETE All Color Photos

Special issue MER et MONTAGNE

Special issue NUS D'HIVER All Color Photos

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NYMPH Issue #6 It's Spanking New "Miss Sputnik" 1950s

Starting a series of posts today devoted to American "girlie" magazines of the late 1950s, early 1960s. Primarily full-size, "newsstand" magazines aimed at the mature buyer but still retaining a mix of partially nude models, risque tease photography, fiction and non-fiction articles. My criteria for posting starts with the cover and continues inside with seductive models in combination with great layouts and graphic design.

Nymph, issue 6, Wake Publishing late 1950s. Devoted to strippers and the strip tease, featuring Miss Sputnik, Evelyn West, Toddy Taylor, Dee Milo and many other burlesque beauties. 

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PARIS-HOLLYWOOD: Paris Latest 1960s

Here's part three: PARIS-HOLLYWOOD magazines from the 1960s. All the issues posted here are recent arrivals from my most recent trip to Paris and are available for sale. Click here to see the 1960s Paris-Hollywood magazines in my store. Click here to see the previous Paris-Hollywood 1950s post and click here for the previous Paris-Hollywood 1960s post. 

Paula Page

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Uschi Digard

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