Pin-up Girls

I found this lovely pin-up girl and just had to put it up right away.  I had never heard of Zita Johann but I have to say she is one lovely lady.  I have a link here to to some photos of Zita and if you check out the last one I think Drew Barrymore looks a bit like her.  You can get this vitage movie poster to shipped to your home for about $200 depending on framing and size.

Zita Johann was born in Temesvar, Austria-Hungary (now Timisoara, Timis, Romania) on July 14, 1904. At age seven she moved to the United States and in high school she began to act in school plays. In 1924 she debuted on Broadway in a Theater Guild production, and over the next several years established herself as a prominent leading lady onstage.  Zita was a dark, intriguing leading lady who appeared in seven films of the early 1930s after enjoying success on the New York stage. Zita made her screen debut in a leading role in D.W. Griffith’s last film, the extremely low-budgeted, uneven, but striking Depression-era document, “The Struggle” (1931). The following year she played Helen Grosvenor, the Princess Anckesen-Amon, the role for which she is best remembered, the woman that revived Egyptian high priest, Boris Karloff, who is convinced is the reincarnation of his love from thousands of years ago in the poetic horror classic, “The Mummy” (1932).   

 

The Sin of Nora Moran   44×60

 

 

Zita brought an appropriately haunted, vague quality to the role, but despite leads in several others films, including the lively actioner “Tiger Shark” (1932), late in 1933 she went to playing the title role in a poverty row drama, “The Sin of Nora Moran” (1933), and after one more film Zita, who disliked Hollywood, returned to the stage to continue her career. Yet, in 1989 she went back to film acting and appeared as a librarian in the film “Raiders of the Living Dead.”

This new addition to Pin-up Girls will be these classic WWII recruiting posters all of course featuring the lovely gals of that generation. 

 

WWII, U.S. Navy, I Wish I Were A Man   18×24

Get this classic Pin-up Girl style United States Navy recuiting poster for your home or office for about $115.00 custom framed.

Title: Gee!! I wish I were a man, I’d join the Navy Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station ~ Howard Chandler Christy 1917.

I know this site is supposed to be for Pin-up Girls but when I saw these photos of this young lady, clearly, the epitome of what a Pin-up Girl is I just had to put this up. Hayden Panettiere has to be one of the hottest young actresses (and I mean that both ways) in the world today…

Make sure you check out Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka, Ali Larter, and Adrian Pasdar on that great TV show Heroes; if you were a fan of comic books as a kid and still love all those super hero movies then you will love Heroes just as much as I do.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Pablo Picasso 34×37

Shown here is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young ladies of Avignon) framed with an elegant SoHo II Matte Black Wood molding for about $100.00

Description from the Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has an exceptional collection of works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), including fifty-five paintings spanning his prolific career. Of these, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) is often celebrated as a cornerstone of modernism. Described as the “core of Picasso’s laboratory” by the French writer and poet André Breton (Rubin, Studies in Modern Art 3, p. 177), the work jolted the imagination of Picasso’s contemporaries and generations of artists since. This crucial milestone in the development of modern art has remained an iconic fixture in MoMA’s collection since its acquisition in 1939.