Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

Marilyn Monroe was a model, film actress and icon. She
became one of the most popular sex symbols of the
1950s and early 1960s.

The American Film Institute ranked her sixth  on their list
of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden
Age of Hollywood.      

1959

Walter Botts (1900-72)  posing as Uncle Sam in front of the
iconic poster, ca. 1970.

Artist James Montgomery Flagg referred to his own mirror image
for the portrait of “Uncle Sam” he created for the cover of the July
6, 1916 issue of Leslie’s Weekly. The figure in the long-tailed coat,
stove pipe hat and sideburns was captioned “What Are You Doing
for Preparedness?”
When asked to update the highly effective image for use in World
War 2, Flagg hired a Hoosier-born veteran who’d posed for Norman Rockwell. According to his widow’s memoir, Walter Botts was
chosen over other models for Flagg’s Army poster “because he
had the longest arms, the longest nose, and the bushiest
eyebrows.”

Botts reportedly suggested the pointing gesture when the artist
asked “Walt, what are you going to do with your long arms,
sitting there?”

James Montgomery Flagg
(June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960)

Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson)
(July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019)

Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis
"stunned" her because there was no family history of breast cancer and
she had always had a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of
radiation therapy, and was clear since. She died today in Los Angeles.

Her 1968 debut in Julia (NBC) the first series on American television to
star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in
her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of a mixed-
race diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty.

Julia, original release from September 17, 1968 – March 23, 1971

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  was born in  Paris, France

Known simply as "B.B.", Bardot was one of the best-known sex symbols
of the 1950s and 1960s. She first achieved fame in the 1957 film And God
Created Woman.

Before she retired in 1973, Bardot appeared in the 1963 film Le Mépris
and in the 1965 film Viva Maria!.

1968

Lana Turner (Julia Jean Turner)  (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995)

Lana Turner was an actress who over the course of her nearly 50-year
career achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress. She
best known for her role in the 1959 remake of “Imitation of Life”. She had
previously appeared in Ziegfeld Girl in 1941 and in “Somewhere I’ll Find
You” in 1942.

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