Vintage Pin Up Girl by Peter Driben
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Peter Driben had an eye for producing some very beautiful works reflecting the vintage pin up girl.
Peter Driben was one of the most productive, by far, of the pin up artists that worked in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Neither Vargas or Elvgren came close to having the large portfolio that Driben did.
Vintage Pin Up Posters by Peter Driben
Below you will find some beautiful Vintage Pin Up posters that encapsulate some of the great work of Peter Driben.
Pin-up Girl on Scale
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Pin-up Girl
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Pin-Up Girl Snooping
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Luis Royo - The Dark Pin Up Girl Creator
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Luis Royo was born in 1954 in Olalla Spain. He is famous for his dark paintings of beautiful women and mechanical life forms. The gorgeous women that he created were of some of the most beautiful and anatomically perfect examples ever to have been designed in his time.
Luis Royo is renowned for many of his creations like those of the famous Heavy Metal magazine. This magazine presented Royo’s works in the form of magazine covers, calendars and had an entire gallery devoted to him.
Luis Royo is the master of the dark Vintage Pin Up Girl.
Comic Images, a comic book and imagery company, added two new editions of Trading Cards: Royo Secret Desires (this was the fourth collection by this artist) and Artists Choice (which Luis Royo did in a combined effort with other artists). To end the year Women and Malefic were published in the United States and the latter was published again in Spain.
Luis Royo was famous for many other books and creations as well as many stunning prints as these below.
These prints include many famous images such as…
- Prohibited
- Dreams II
- Dream in Year 2000 and 2000 Dreams
- Alone
- The Announcement
- Luis Royo
- Visions
- Royo 1084
- Millenium
- Daughter of the Moon
- The Time Has Come
- Subversive Beauty
- Stained
- Medusa’s Gaze
- Alone
- Gothic
- Sati’s Dance
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50s Pinup Girls and the Great Poster Creators of the Time
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Looking back at 50s pinup girls is a nostalgic trip filled with class and some of the sexiest ladies and art to ever grace the big screen and of course, pinup girls posters. There is nothing like the 50’s to bring the essence of the Vintage Pin Up Posters.
Art and 50s Pinup Girls
Some of the best art pieces portraying 50s Pinup Girls was created by greats such as Gil Elvgren, Rolf Armstrong, Peter Driben, Earl Moran, Art Frahm and Edward Runci. These masters were renowned for their creations and contributions to the pin up girl art world. Their pieces are absolutely stunning and have been recreated today in poster form.
Who Were the 50s Pinup Girl?
Of course, who is more famous for her 50s Pinup Posters than Bettie Page? Bettie Page has graced the the pin up posters more times than just about any pin up girl in existence up to this day in age. She was beautiful, fun and exciting and the 50s wouldn’t have been the 50s without her.
Betty Page is also found on many cool t-shirts displaying her famous beauty and pulse increasing poses. Take a look at the large variety of Betty Page t-shirts. If this is something that you like, you certainly will be in 50s Pinup Girls heaven with this collection of art displaying t-shirts.
Today, recreations of 50s Pinup Girls and prints and art is a category all to itself. There are some gorgeous prints and posters available that will bring back the classy 50’s and many of the beautiful girls of those nostalgic days. Take a look at a few of the poster recreations below.
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Vintage Marilyn Monroe Posters
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One of the most famous vintage pin up posters girls would have had to have been Marilyn Monroe. The search for Vintage Marilyn Monroe Posters is an ongoing thing since many more are discovered and mass marketed.
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I have found many Vintage Marilyn Monroe Posters throughout the Internet and am going to display a few for your enjoyment below. Feel free to click on the posters to learn more about purchasing them and adding them to your collection or to simply decorate a few walls.
Marilyn Monroe is an American legend in a manner of speaking. She’s a legend here in the states but famous around the world. Never has there been anyone like Marilyn Monroe nor will there probably ever be anyone like her again. There is nothing better than capturing her in a vintage pin up poster format and displaying her on your wall for years to come.
Vintage Marilyn Monroe Posters
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed this little glimpse into a few Vintage Marilyn Monroe Posters. There are many more available at the Posters Store so click on any of the links to search through everything they have.
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Casablanca - The Vintage Pin Up Posters Legend
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One of the greatest movies ever made that set the stage for many vintage pin up posters was set during the World War Two era and shot in 1942, Casablanca was a small film, which no one truly thought would grow into the classic American romance it is today. The focus is on the conflict of one man, who is fighting between doing the right thing and his lingering love for a woman.
Casablanca has steadily grown in popularity over the years, making the movie poster one of the greatest vintage pin up posters of all time, not to mention the fact that one of the most beautiful women in the world, Ingrid Bergman, as the leading lady of this classic of vintage pin up posters.
Rick Blaine, played by Humphery Bogart, is an American café owner and expatriate hiding in Casablanca. His café, known as Rick’s Café Americain, is fast becoming a well known night spot in Casablanca, which attracts gamblers, thieves, refugees; French officials and the occassional Nazi officer. Though Rick claims to be a neutral party, he runs guns to Africa, Ethopia to be exact, during the Italian attack in 1935 and fought against the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, both which tarnishes his claims of neutrality.
The classic film noir romance central theme focuses on the just and fairness of the world, set in one of the most corrupt places. Rick’s nightclub is a known hang out for opportunists, thieves, gamblers, ladies of the night and war criminals, so placing Isla Lund, played beautifully by Ingrid Bergman, the vintage pin up posters beauty, and her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), both who are sought after by the Nazis for their work against the Nazi regime. The odd juxtaposition of Isla seeking out Rick is like good seeking out evil, but within the frame of Casablanca it works. Also the odd mixture of Humphery Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as ex-lovers helps escort the audience into the world of contradications, however, Casablanca is famed for these very concepts.
Through confrontations and arguments, Isla finally demands the letters Rick has received off the bodies of two murdered Nazi officers. These letters will get Isla and her husband safely to America, but Rick will not give them to her. It is here that Rick and the audience learn the truth behind Isla’s untimely vanishing act. In fact, Isla was deeply in love with Rick, but having learned that her husband had not been killed by the Germans when he tried to escape from a concentration camp, as she had originally thought, she quickly left Rick’s side in Paris, to be by her husband’s bed side. Her loyalty to her marriage and her cause kept her from finding true happiness and love with Rick.
The romance classic yanks at the heart strings of audiences for decades, and the movie poster has quickly become a staple in any vintage pin up posters collector’s items. While we all know the lines, the songs that shouldn’t be played, we still can’t help but wish Isla and Rick were still together. Here’s lookin’ at you, Bogart and Bergman!
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Lana Turner - Oscar Nominated American Film Actress and Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl
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Born February 8, 1921 Lana Turner, or as her family called her: Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, quickly became a vintage pin up posters girl and was a well known, iconic, Oscar nominated American film actress. Her life was played out in the public eye, on and off screen. On-screen, Turner was known for the sensuality and glamour she brought to almost all of the characters she portrayed in her movie roles. Off-screen, Turner led a very stormy and tempestuous personal life that included no less than seven husbands, countless lovers, and one of the more famous Hollywood murder scandals.
Turner was famously discovered at Schwab’s Drug Store and has become one of Hollywood’s most alluring show-business risen to fame legends. The truth differs only a bit from the legend. At 16 years old and a Hollywood High School student, Turner skipped class and got a Coke from the local cafe, called the Top Hat, located not far from the campus on the southeast corner of McCadden Place and Sunset Boulevard. While she sat drinking for Coke, the beauty and future vintage pin up posters girl was spotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of the famed Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Wilkerson was stunned by her physique and her natural beauty, and referred her to Zeppo Marx, a famous actor/comedian/talent agent in Hollywood. Marx’s agency quickly signed her into contract at MGM and she was introduced to the film director Mervyn LeRoy, who 1937’s They Won’t Forget became Turner’s first film role. She was also an extra that same year in A Star Is Born—a member of the crowd watching a boxing match.
Turner eventually became known as “The Sweater Girl” from her revealing wardrobe in a particular scene within They Won’t Forget.
It was during the 40s and 50s and during World War II that Turner became a popular vintage pin-up posters girl due to her popularity. The vintage pin up posters girl was so popular, she had a B-17 bomber—the Tempest Turner—named after her. After the war, Turner’s career vintage pin up posters girl popularity continued with the successful release of the film noir classic, The Postman Always Rings Twice, which John Garfield also starred in.
The 50s brought the vintage pin up posters girl a downturn in success, which was worsened by MGM’s attempt to recast the pin up in musicals. The first musical, Mr. Imperium, was a quite a box office flop, while The Merry Widow was somewhat more of a success. She was praised for her performance in Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful, and later with John Wayne, in The Sea Chase. Shortly after these small successes and more box office failures, MGM did not renew her contract.
Turner did manage to have a small career revival after she starred in the film adaptation of the best selling fiction novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. With her performance in Peyton Place, she garnered a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar. However, Turner’s day of being a vintage pin up posters girl were slowly fading. Turner then accepted the lead role in the remake of Imitation of Life, which was under the direction of the great Douglas Sirk.
She died at the age of 74 on June 29, 1995 of complications from the three year struggle she had with throat cancer. Until her death, Turner was a heavy smoker. The vintage pin up posters girl was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on 6241 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Vintage Pin Up Posters Noted Painter, Alberto Vargas
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Alberto Vargas was a noted painter of Vintage Pin Up Posters and paintings of pin-up girls and erotica. He was born in Arequipa, Peru and came to the United States in 1916. Prior to coming to the U.S., he studied art in Europe just before WW I.
Not only did he do Vintage Pin Up Posters, he also did much work for Hollywood studios. His most famous work was The Sin of Nora Moran; which has a pose of Zita Johann is desperation and practically naked.
Playboy magazine began to use his Vintage Pin Up Posters work a referred to his art as “Vargas Girls”. His career flourished at that point.
Vargas did his Vintage Pin Up Posters paintings mostly with a combo of watercolor and the airbrush. He was a master of the airbrush and this is noted with the Vargas Award; which is given annually by Airbrush Action Magazine.
Famous Vintage Pin Up Posters Women Painted by Vargas
- Ruth Etting
- Paulette Goddard
- Marilyn Miller
- Nita Naldi
- Billie Burke
- Olive Thomas
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Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl - Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball lived from Aug. 6, 1911 through Apr. 26, 1989 and she was one of the most famous Vintage Pin Up Posters girls alive in her time. Lucille Ball was an American comic, film, TV, stage and broadcast radio performer, model, film executive, and superstar of the breakthrough TV comedy shows I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy.
The Vintage Pin Up Posters girl, Lucille Ball was one of the most admired stars in America throughout her existence and had one of Hollywood’s most extensive careers. She was a film star from the ’30s to the ’70s, and was on TV for more than thirty years.
The Vintage Pin Up Posters girl, Ball acknowledged thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four award victories. She was the receiver of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Governors Award in 1989.
The Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl Becomes a Model
In 1929, Ball landed work as a Vintage Pin Up Posters girl model and later began her theater career on Broadway with the stage name “Diane Belmont”. She appeared in many small motion picture parts in the 1930s as a contract player for the company RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was known as the “Queen of the B’s” (regarding her many parts in B-films). 
In 1951, Vintage Pin Up Posters girl Lucille Ball was essential in the making of the TV series I Love Lucy. The program co-starred her then spouse, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos’ adorable landlords.
Once the show finished in 1960, the Vintage Pin Up Posters girl, Lucille Ball starred in two more triumphant TV series: The Lucy Show; which played on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and also Here’s Lucy from 1968 to 1974. The Vintage Pin Up Posters girl’s final effort at a TV sequence was a 1986 show titled Life With Lucy. The show demonstrated to be a serious and unprofitable flop which was given up for lost less than two months into its course by ABC.
The Vintage Pin Up Posters girl eloped with the Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, Ball gave birth to the couple’s first child, Lucie Desiree Arnaz. About one and a half years later, Lucille Ball delivered to a second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. The two divorced on May 4, 1960.
The Death of the Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl, Lucille Ball
On April 26, 1989, the Vintage Pin Up Posters girl, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at seventy-seven years old. Upon death, she had been married to her second spouse, stand-up comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.
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Lauren Bacall - A Very Popular Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl
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Vintage Pin Up Posters wouldn’t be the same without Lauren Bacall. She was born on September 16th, 1924 and was famous for her sultry looks and husky voice. This Vintage Pin Up Posters beauty became a fashion icon in the 1940’s and continues acting to this day.
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Lauren Bacall’s Vintage Pin Up Posters success began with her study of acting that lasted thirteen years. She did so by her lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Throughout this time, she became a theater usher and was a fashion model as well. She made her first appearance in acting on Broadway in 1942, in Johnny 2 X 4.
According to her autobiography, this Vintage Pin Up Posters wonder met her idol Bette Davis at Davis’s hotel. Many years later, Davis visited Bacall backstage to pass on good wishes to her on her show in Applause, a musical about Davis’s turn in All About Eve.
The Vintage Pin Up Posters Girl’s Breakthrough Finally came
Through the screen tests for To Have and Have Not in 1944 Lauren Bacall was anxious, so in order to diminish her trembling, she pushed her chin against her chest and so she could look toward the camera, tilted her eyes upward. This result became identified as ‘The Look’, Bacall’s famous trademark. She was cast for the movie and was given the first name Lauren. Her performance is recognized as one of the most commanding on-screen debuts in film history turning her into a future Vintage Pin Up Posters beauty.
This Vintage Pin Up Posters girl grabbed the attention of Humphrey Bogart who was married to Mayo Methot. On the set, he initiated a relationship with her some weeks into shooting and they began seeing each other on a steady basis.
On a stopover at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on February 10th, 1945, her press agent, Charlie Enfield, requested that the twenty year old Bacall sit on the piano being played by Vice-President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. This future Vintage Pin Up Posters group of photos caused controversy making headlines across the world.
After To Have and Have Not, Bacall played opposite of Charles Boyer in the critically panned Confidential Agent that was shot in 1945 strengthening her even more as a future Vintage Pin Up Posters girl. She later appeared with Bogart in the film noir The Big Sleep that was filmed the following year in 1946, the thriller Dark Passage in 1947, and John Huston’s extremely dramatic and very suspenseful film Key Largo; which was shot in 1948. She was cast with Gary Cooper in the adventurous story Bright Leaf in 1950.
Lauren Bacall would finally make an absolute gorgeous Vintage Pin Up Posters girl and she would would become an American icon.
Just a bit of Lauren Bacall Vintage Pin Up Posters trivia for you. Allow me to show you one of her famous movie quotes.
From The Big Sleep that was filmed in 1946: Humphrey Bogart: “What’s wrong with you?” Lauren Bacall: “Nothing you can’t fix.”
Vintage Pin Up Posters Legend - Ava Gardner
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Of all the vintage pin up posters girls, Ava Gardner is one of the most famous. Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award nominated
American actress that lived from December 24, 1922 to January 25, 1990. It is very true that she was listed as one of the American Film Institute’s greatest stars of all times and that is a recognition that any vintage pin up posters girl would love to have.
Ava Gardner was not your average vintage pin up posters girls as she was one of seven siblings born to a very poor family of cotton and tobacco farmers in North Carolina in 1922.
It was at the age of eighteen that this future vintage pin up posters girl would start to enter the world of fame. In New York in 1941, Ava Gardner was visiting her sister Beatrice. Beatrice’s husband, a professional photographer offered to take Ava’s photo and was so astounded by the photo that he placed it in the window of his Fifth Avenue Studio.
This photo would be the first step in Ava Gardner’s steps to becoming a vintage pin up posters girl as the photo was sent to MGM where Ava would later go and interview to launch her career. She was provided a voice coach by MGM as her southern accent was almost incomprehensible to the non-southern types. The vintage pin up posters girl was on the rise.
Of all the vintage pin up posters girls, Ava Gardner was one of the most famous and sought after. Her fame was renowned because of the following movies that would launch the career of any vintage pin up posters girl if they would have had the opportunity.
Vintage Pin Up Posters | Ava Gardner’s Movies
- Mogambo (1953)
- The Night of the Iguana (1964)
- The Hucksters (1947)
- Showboat (1951)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
- The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
- Bhowani Junction (1956)
- The Sun Also Rises (1957)
- On the Beach
- Mayerling(1968)
In 1986 at the age of 67, Ava Gardner died of pneumonia. After this pin up posters girl’s death, one of Frank Sinatra’s daughters found him slumped and crying uncontrollably in his room. Allegedly, a single black limousine parked at the rear of the group of 500 mourners at Ava Gardner’s funeral. No one got out of the vehicle, but it was believed that the unidentified mourner was Frank Sinatra. A floral display at her graveside simply read: “With My Love, Francis”. This would make Ava Gardner a vintage pin up posters legend.
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