From innocent lingerie photos to more advanced erotic images, the girls in the poster used to scandalize the good manners of societies.
At the same time, of course, they were calling for an early sexual revolution, as we are still talking about the 1940s and 1950s.
Before the real one comes sexual liberation, these girls just made their eyes blink. Either out of lust or out of shame.
However, these girls were accompanied by American soldiers in World War II, spreading their lure in Europe and beyond.
Their images were now everywhere, from the uniforms and walls of the camps to their wallets. And the US military unofficially welcomed their movement inside the units, as such images raised the morale of the enlisted youth.
Even the girls themselves at some point considered it an honor to help in their country's war effort.
Only their resonance had become global. We know some of them from other countries and others even managed to become superstars.
But they all started as the girls on the poster…
The "queen with the curves", as she was called, remains a myth of the time. A girl with everyday beauty who transformed into the most coveted creature in the world.
Betty Page with her open sexuality inspired so many girls to follow her example, causing a real social revolution.
Born in 1923 in Tennessee, she spent a difficult childhood in the misery and quarrels of her parents. Her father even sexually abused her.
Despite the torment, she was very smart and the best student in the school. She went to college and did a lot of work in her early years, before moving to New York in the late 1940s to study acting.
Jerry Tibbs would find her there in 1950, this strange mix of policeman and photographer, with whom she would take her first provocative photos. It was the moment he was waiting for.
The confidence and joy that came out of the "peppers" images showed that the sexuality had nothing to be ashamed of. "I want to be remembered as the woman who changed the minds of the world about nudity," she told the Los Angeles Times.
And then, at the height of her career in 1957, she gave up everything and became a hermit. Her life has now taken a down turn. He passed away in December 2008, at the age of 85.
Betty Page started it all, but someone else managed to do it the "feet of a million". Betty Grable reached unimaginable heights in the years of World War II, with her feet becoming such an object of worship that she was finally convinced to secure them. Yes, for $ 1 million.
Legend has it that even German and Japanese soldiers want to put pictures of her in their wallets. The Americans had already put it on their planes.
Before all this happened, Betty Grable was just a country girl born in 1916 in Missouri.
She owes everything to her mom, who wanted to save and show well the star daughter of showbiz, going to Hollywood already at the age of 13. Who would have thought that the girl who played in small things would become the highest paid star in the late 40s?
By the middle of the next decade, however, her unprecedented girl glow had faded. People had fallen in love with another challenge, they called it Marilyn Monroe.
In fact, Gable's last role on the big screen would come quite ironically next to the woman who stole her glory (in "How to Marry a Millionaire" in 1953).
Gable, however, remained active until a few months before her death. Now the board had won her over. She passed away in 1973, stricken with lung cancer. He was 57 years old.
The fatal curls of Veronica Lake used to seduce the male population like few things in this world. Born in New York in 1922, she also had a mom who began to pursue her career at a very tender age.
So as soon as she finished school, her parents moved to Beverly Hills to study at a renowned acting school. Veronica had the stove of a star and was indeed a great talent in acting.
And despite the fact that the planet learned about her from the cinema, everyone fell in love with her when she started taking her first provocative photos during the years of World War II. And it became a bad loss.
Her life later, however, did not follow the same course. Others said she was clumsy in her collaborations and her mom claimed over time that she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Whatever the truth, Veronica Lake saw her career end virtually when she cut her hair short.
He did some sporadic work in the 1950s and 1960s, not always in showbiz, and eventually plunged into the world of alcohol. She died of kidney failure and hepatitis in 1973, at the age of 50.
She was so unwanted that her ashes remained in the incinerator for 3 whole years.
The exuberant sex bomb that would become known as Marilyn's awe-inspiring rival was born in 1933 in Pennsylvania as Vera Jane Palmer. Jane married Paul Mansfield, 17, at the age of 20, had a child immediately and lived as a housewife.
She took some acting classes and at one point went out there to find work to contribute to the family income. In the early 1950s she made the matte move, persuading her husband to move to Hollywood.
After she divorced and until she signed her first contract with Warner Bros in 1955, he was forced to move beyond the realm of provocative photography. And that was what would give her a huge boost in her career.
She was now known as a more provocative version of Marilyn, a version that Marilyn herself hated: "I know it's supposed to be flattering, but she does it so rudely, so vulgarly, I wish I could sue her."
Although she was impressively smart, she carried the stereotype of the light-skinned blonde. She was a real siphon, however, she had three marriages, had 5 children and was charged with so many romances.
Everything would come to an unexpected end in June 1967, when he was killed in a car accident. He was only 34 years old.
Born in the countryside of England in 1931, however, it was made for great things. And she probably knew it from a young age: "I will become a movie star, with a swimming pool and a cream phone", she wrote in a school report at the age of 9.
From the age of 13 she took part in beauty pageants, lying that she was 17. And today we know that she started provocative poses at an age that was given up early and it was not allowed.
However, she later said that she did it intentionally, because that would put her in the big movie theaters. She studied acting and willingly took on provocative roles on the sail.
All this paid off and with the above, the British had found their own Marilyn. "I based my career on men, sex and money. "And in that order," she said later.
The scandalous magazines loved her more than anyone. All this gave her wealth and fame. Until 1956 he actually lived in a 23 bedroom mansion with a swimming pool and a cream phone.
He married 3 times, had 2 children and passed away in 1984, stricken with cancer. He was 52 years old. Her last husband could not bear her loss, she committed suicide a few days after her funeral.
What else to say about the moving challenge; Born Norma Jean Mortenson in June 1926, the woman who would enchant the whole world had a difficult childhood, moving in and out of orphanages and foster families.
To escape all this, he married in 1942, a 16-year-old girl, a man. When he left for the front of World War II, he left his wife to work in an ammunition factory.
It was discovered there by a photographer and the rest is obviously history. Until 1946, when he signed the contract with 20th Century Fox, the two of them had already separated. The provocative blonde began to call herself Marilyn, and so the universe would learn her.
A few years and a few hours later, she would be unemployed again. It was then that she took the infamous nude photo shoot, which came to light later and threatened her career. The audience, however, seemed willing to forget it all. "I was hungry," Marilyn said simply.
When she died in 1962, at the age of 36, of a barbiturate overdose, Hollywood lost one of its biggest stars.
The explosive diva was born in 1921 in Minnesota, the daughter of an army officer and an actress. And it was again mom's desire for the daughter to learn bass music and acting and find a place in showbiz.
When she was a little older, her mom sent her to study acting in Los Angeles. He worked as a secretary for a doctor when he discovered it himself Howard Hughes.
The legendary producer took her at the age of 19 to play in a movie and did not skimp on the expenses to bring her the recognition she dreamed of. Among them, the bigot Hughes arranged a series of provocative photos, which were highly appreciated by the US Navy.
Despite the fact that the spicy images emphasized her rich breasts, she set out to show everyone that they were much more than a few juicy curves. His status sex symbol he would not miss it, but he also played good roles, as in "Men Prefer Blondes" (1953), alongside Marilyn.
When her cinematic resonance passed, she went on the board and television and lived until 2011, dying at the age of 89.