Pin Up Girl (1944), starring Betty Grable - June 18, 2019

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Pin Up Girl (1944) arrives on Blu-ray on June 18, 2019, from Twilight Time. This will be a limited edition of 3000 copies.

From Turner Classic Movies....It is one of the iconic images of the World War II era: Betty Grable wearing a bathing suit, satin heels and an ankle bracelet, with her blonde hair in a curly pompadour, shot from behind and coyly smiling over her shoulder at the camera. Her home studio 20th Century Fox gave away millions of copies of that photo, and it is estimated that one of every five servicemen fighting overseas carried one, a symbol of all the girls they left behind. It was the ultimate "pin-up," so named because the fighting men pinned them over their bunks or on the cockpits of their planes.

Modified synopsis from IMDb ….Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, promises to marry almost every serviceman who signs her pin-up photo. Now she's leaving home with her friend Kay to go into government service, but Kay tells everyone she is heading off on a USO tour. On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to true love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

Excellent article from Turner Classic Movies: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86706.../articles.html


Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone (I Wake Up Screaming, Wonder Man, Sun Valley Serenade, Time out for Murder, Hello Frisco Hello, and multiple movies in the Charlie Chan and the Tarzan series)

Starring:

Betty Grable (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Mother Wore Tights, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Coney Island, A Yank in the R.A.F.)

John Harvey (The Spider, Four Jills in a Jeep, Edge of Fury)

Martha Raye (Monsieur Verdoux, Billy Rose's Jumbo, The Farmer's Daughter, Double or Nothing, Pufnstuf)

Cinematography by Ernest Palmer, who lensed 140 films, including Broken Arrow, Blood and Sand, Belle Starr, My Gal Sal, Coney Island, and Centennial Summer.




Clip from the film - performance of "Once Too Often"

Betty Grable - Once Too Often - YouTube

Trailer (NOTE: This is the only trailer I could find online and the quality is VERY poor.)

« Pin-Up Girl » trailer (1942) - YouTube