Showing posts with label Picture Perfect Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picture Perfect Wednesday. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Jane Birkin has passed away

Jane Birkin

Retired actress and singer Jane Birkin passed away on July 16, 2023. She was 76 years old. In here memory, here's a gallery of photos she posed for at her height of fame during the 1960s and 1970s.

Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin with jewels
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin


Rumor has it that Jane Birkin didn't wear shoes until she was 27 years old. After taking a walk in the snow on her 27th birthday, she discovered the usefulness of footwear!
 
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin smiling and walking

 Jane Birkin was the subject of quarterly posts here at Shades of Gray in 2021. You can enjoy those pictures by clicking on her name underneath this post.
 
 
 

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The Milla Jovovich Quarterly

Milla Jovovich


In this edition of Milla Jovovich Quarterly, we bring you a change of pace from recent and upcoming Picture Perfect Specials and Picture Perfect Wednesdays: We have a gallery of photos spanning Milla's near four decades in front of cameras.. and she is fully clothed in every picture!

Milla Jovovich Teenager
Milla Jovoich Goth cross-dresser
Milla Jovoich
Milla Jovovich bearing crosses
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich on break

 
 

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

It's International Bikini Day!

It's Wednesday... and it's International Bikini Day. That can only mean one thing: We got pictures of women in bikinis to make this a Picture Perfect Wednesday!

Mie Hama wearing a bikini
Caroline Munro in a bikini

 

 

 
We celebrate on this day, because it is when, in 1946, French automobile engineer and fashion designer Louis Reard bestowed the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikini ["the world's smallest swimsuit"] upon the world! Read all about this great man here!)

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Is it time to stop?

We've been tracking the dancers in the wild for a year now. Is this where we stop the monthly posts? Will the dancers be left alone until next International Dance Day?




Time will tell. Meanwhile, you can help us choose... will the last Wednesday each month continue as Dancer Day or not? What do YOU want?



Wednesday, June 21, 2023

It's June!

June Palmer with a tea cup

June Palmer was an exotic dancer and nude model who graced the pages of many leading men's magazines during the early 1960s. Her rise to fame was aided by collaborations with photographer and adult filmmaker  George Harrison Marks.

After appearing in several short films for Marks and the mockumentary feature film "The Naked World of Harrison Marks" (1964), Palmer set her sights on breaking into mainstream film. During the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, she appeared in a handful of features and short films, in mostly very small parts, and usually in varying states of undress. Among these was a part in Hammer Films' "Taste the Blood Dracula" (1970), which featured all the lacy nightgowns and undies you'd expect.

June Palmer



Palmer's film career never took off, and she retired from life in front of the camera after one final nude pictorial in 1977. She passed away in 2004 at the age of 73.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Some art by June in June!

June Brigman is perhaps best known for being to co-creator of the excellent 1980s/1990s series from Marvel Comics, Power Pack. She has been gracing covers and interior pages of American comic books of pretty much all genres since her first foray into comics as a penciler during the early 1980s.

Here's a small sampling of artwork from Brigman's pencil over the past three decades, starting with a very nice illustration of the original Black Cat.

Black Cat by June Brigman



Supergirl by June Brigman

Power Pack by June Brigman

Cloak & Dagger by June Brigman

Elektra by June Brigman



Wednesday, June 7, 2023

It's June...

... June Palmer that is.

June Palmer

Born in 1940, British actress and model June Palmer got her start in showbusiness in her late teens, performing as an exotic dancer in London cabarets. By 19, she had "graduated" to modeling for men's magazines. Within just a few years, she had become a popular figure (or, rather, her figure had become popular) in Great Britain, throughout the Commonwealth, and in the United States. By the mid-1960s, the film industry was calling to her...


Check back in two weeks for another Picture Perfect Wednesday featuring June Palmer... with more pictures and more information about her career in pictures, both still and moving!

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

It's Mermay!

Some say mermaids are just imaginary creatures... but we have photos that prove otherwise! 



 
  
 
 

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023