| RITA HAYWORTH was a close second to BETTY GRABLE as the
most popular pin-up girl of World War II. The ever- modest Grable never
thought of herself as a sex symbol. In fact, she claimed the famous shot
in her a leggy pose taken from the backside was purely an accident, the
result of an artist needing the angle to make a drawing. Whatever its origin,
the poster was distributed to GIs at a rate of twenty thousand each week.
She realized her good luck, saying, "I am in show business for two
good reasons, and I am standing on both of them." Her studio agreed,
and insured her legs for one million dollars through Lloyds of London. |
