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Vivacious Bathing Beauty Marguerite Chapman Original 1940s Pin-Up Photograph

$ 2.9

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Year: 1940-49
  • Condition: This photograph is in fine condition with a small discoloration in the top margin and light storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Subject: Marguerite Chapman
  • Object Type: Photograph
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Industry: Movies
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Style: Black & White
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    ITEM: This is a 1940s vintage and original pin-up photograph of Columbia Pictures starlet Marguerite Chapman. The bombshell bathing beauty is the picture of cheesecake glamour and sex appeal in a shiny one-piece bathing suit that shows off her voluptuous figure and a pair of gladiator sandals that wind up her long legs.
    Marguerite Chapman was a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks brought about the opportunity to pursue a career in modeling. Signed by the John Robert Powers Agency in New York City, she was subsequently discovered by Howard Hughes, who gave her a screen test. Persuaded to go to Hollywood in late 1939, she signed briefly with 20th Century Fox, was under contract to Warner Brothers in 1941, and then with Columbia from 1942 to 1948.
    Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock with ink stamps on verso.
    Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
    More about Marguerite Chapman:
    Marguerite Chapman, a small-town secretary and tomboy nicknamed "Slugger", became a model only after friends insisted "you oughta be in pictures", and she went on to act in more than 30 movies. Never a Hollywood wannabe, Chapman grew up in Chatham, New York, with four brothers. She started working as a typist and switchboard operator in White Plains, New York. Praised repeatedly for her beauty, she became a John Powers model in New York City. After she had appeared on the covers of enough magazines, studios beckoned her to Los Angeles. From 1940 to 1943 she appeared in 18 movies, ranging from Charles Chaplin comedies to armed services booster films as a member of the Warner Bros. singing and dancing Navy Blues Sextet. Chapman was cast as the leading lady in Destroyer (1943) with Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford. During World War II she entertained troops, kissed purchasers of large war bonds and appeared in a string of war-themed pictures. By the 1950s, however, she had slipped into supporting roles, notably as the secretary in The Seven Year Itch (1955) with Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. As her film career waned, she made a few appearances on television, and appeared occasionally in small theaters. Her last film, The Amazing Transparent Man (1960), was a low-budget sci-fi quickie shot by cult director Edgar G. Ulmer in a few days on the grounds of the state fair in Texas (she was asked to appear as "Old Rose" Calver in Titanic (1997), but she was too ill at the time, and the role went to Gloria Stuart). She was married and divorced from attorney G. Bentley Ryan and assistant director Richard Bremerkamp. Her acting career is memorialized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    - IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2