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MISS
SEX APPEAL
OF 1938
l-Uight 5 ft. 4 in.
Weight 10? Ibt.
Butt ... 34 inches
Weist 22'/2 inches
Hips . ... 35 inches
Hat 22'/2 »«»
Dress 14 size
Hose 9 size
Shoes 6A size
Gloves ... 6'/i size
LISTENI! LANA TURNER IS ANOTHER CLARA BOW. SHE IS MISS SEX APPEAL OF 1938!!
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ANA TURNER walked across the screen, wearing a schoolgirl's skirt and sweater, and Hollywood rubbed its eyes and looked again. The girl was a sensation. No one had seen her before. No one saw more than a few brief flashes of r now — as the business-school student whose murder in the opening sequence of They Won't Forget, precipitated the whole bitter tragedy of that powerful document against prejudice. No one had time to decide whether or not she could act. But that question was unimportant. The important thing was that she had that certain something that only one girl in every movie generation seems to have. That electric, youthful, inescapable, indefinable something.
And, oddly enough, that one girl always seems to be a schoolgirl.
Clara Bow, for example. Clara had it. Had it in such lavish measure that she was called "The IT Girl."
Then, there was Jean Harlow — tragic, unforgettable Jean. She had it to such a superlative degree that no one compared with her. Many tried. But to the end, she was THE Platinum Blonde.
Clara was a schoolgirl in Brooklyn, New York, when she won the beauty contest that catapulted her onto the screen. Jean was a Kansas City schoolgirl-bride of 16, honeymooning in Beverly Hills, [Continued on page 68]
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