Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Maria

Montez. Clearly, someone finally gave her the Cobra Jewel. Not to mention one of Bettie Page's old wigs.

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  1. Many low tuimes in my life have been cheered up by remembering The Dance of the Cobra. And Jon Hall, sans shirt.

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  2. No one has ever given me a Cobra Jewel.

    However, I've been offered plenty of trouser snakes!

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  3. Silly me. On first glance I thought it was Mr. Berle, in drag, with particularly good lighting.

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  4. I think this picture is of Ann Baxter in The Ten Commandments and not Maria Montez.

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  5. I have to admit - you had me running scared for a moment, Anon, but no - while there is a resemblance - this is definitely Maria. I believe it's from her 1949 opus Siren of Atlantis.

    Ann's Commandments 'do, by contrast, is browner, her makeup is lighter, and her jewelry is definitely pharaonic.

    Phew!

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