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Old May 7th, 2011, 08:33 AM   #541
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Joey Heatherton (born Sept. 14, 1944) is an American singer, dancer and actress.
She was also one of the older Pla*yboy women at age 53 in April 1997, which is funny because in March 1973 she sued them for $2 million in Los Angeles, claiming the publication of a partially nude photograph of her, invaded her privacy and unlawfully used the picture. My how the passing of the years change outlooks

Her father is said to have tried to persuade her to enter a sanatorium to dry out from her drug abuse problems, but to no avail. However it wasn't all decline. She has tried a few comebacks, most notably, she was in John Waters' "Cry Baby" in 1990, and in 2002, she had a small part in the movie 'Reflections of Evil', which also featured Lana Turner and George Hamilton. Heatherton played the role of a Serta mattress spokeswoman, hearkening back to her heyday when she was featured in the "Perfect Sleeper" Serta advertisements

She still apparently makes appearances at various Hollywood TV celebrity talk shows and autograph sessions, having recovered from the drugs and eating disorders, but that seems to be the extent of her public appearances these days


.... she has gone low profile and has never got back into the limelight.

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  • Joey Heatherton was the Mystery Guest on the November 7, 1965 edition of "What's My Line?" Long time panelist Dorothy Kilgallen, 52, was found dead just hours after the program aired live ... oops!
If you want to find out more about her you can see her full wiki biography here

The Fisher stabbing was reported in the New York Times in 1986 as 'the stabbing of her drummer Jerry Fisher in the hand with a steak knife' and with her in possession of cocaine. The stabbing stemmed from what she described as a ''professional dispute'' with the ex lover, current manager drummer (after she accused him of ruining her career) .... she was released on $1,500 bail after pleading not guilty at her arraignment ..... not a woman you want to be sat next to in a steak house There is a more interesting report here.

Reminder - As Joey Heatherton has a quite extensive thread here already, can any follow up picture postings be posted on her thread please
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Default Austrian Actress: Nora Gregor

Nora Gregor, born Eleonora Hermina Gregor, to Austrian Jewish parents was a stage and film actress. Her theatre career started in the Volksbühne an das Raimund-Theater in Vienna and she entered films in the Germany of the early 1920s and she worked briefly in Hollywood during the early talkie era of the late 1920's, early 1930's, appearing in the foreign-language versions of such films as 'The Trial of Mary Dugan' in 1929, and 'His Glorious Night' also in 1929.

She returned to Europe and worked in cinema across mainland Europe ... perhaps her most famous screen role was in Jean Renoir's 1939 film 'La Règle du Jeu'. Not surprisingly, given her religious background she was in South America after WWII, when she made her last film appearance in the 1945 Chilean film 'La Fruta Mordida'.

Her first husband was Mitja Nikisch, a pianist. They divorced circa 1934 .... and then things went a little bit strange, because, with the rise of the Nazi Party in both Germany and Austria, and despite the fact that she was of Jewish descent she became the open mistress of the married vice chancellor of Austria, and right wing politician Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg, with whom she had a son in 1934. This was a scandalous and equally dangerous (given the politics of the time) thing to do, but they seem to have not cared.

Despite his general political and class views (he was Austrian/German nobility), and his membership of a largely anti Semitic party, on December 1937, five days after the Prince's marriage to his first wife, the former Countess Marie-Elisabeth von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz, was annulled, she and von Starhemberg wed in Vienna. They fled to Switzerland and then France after the Anschluss to avoid retaliation from the possibly vengeful Nazis (he had resisted the idea of Anchluss for nationalistic rather than ideological reasons).

Her husband joined the Free French forces but they were now cut off from their money and von Starhemberg's eighty family estates, they were broke and in 1942, the Starhembergs moved to Argentina. She tried to support her family by making movies, but with little success, and apparently depressed by life in South America, and the loss of her career, she committed suicide in Chile.

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  • Like a lot of central Europeans, born around the turn of the previous century she must have had something of a nationality crisis, cos she was born in Gorizia, a town which then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire but after WWI became part of Italy.
  • Oddly, the escape route that she and her husband used (Switzerland, France, Argentina and Chile) to flee the Nazi's was exactly the same one used by the Nazi's to escape the Allies in 1945.
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Default Model: Samantha Baker

In 2002, Samantha Baker was a cheerleader for the New England Patriots .... that's almost enough for me with my weakness for naughty cheerleaders , but to be fair, when she finished that line of work she went on to become a professional model and personal fitness trainer. Specialising in 'hard body' type feminism and modelling, she has appeared in a number of news stand fitness/muscle magazines both as a model, and as a featured bodybuilder, with a line in DVD's etc .... she also regulary gets interviews in fitness and beauty magazines around the world.

However things took a turn for the worst in February this year when she was arrested along with her boyfriend, one Vincent Papagno and two other men at their house. Police had used a warrant to search the home outside of Boston and reportedly seized 35 pounds of marijuana, a lot of steroids, hundreds of prescription pills and more than $7,000 in cash (in one of the cities biggest ever drug busts).

When they arrived Ms baker wasn't on the premises, but she rather carelessly chose to drive up during the raid and they found quantities of oxycodone pills in her car. They then caught another member of the group down in the basement of the home, in a space set up for drug packaging. Their cunning scheme was to send a member of the group to Los Angeles, buy large quantities of dope, and then mail it to post offices and UPS stores for delivery to the Braintree house. To cap this genius scheme off they allegedly marked the packages “Not Drugs!” .... hmm, apparently this subtle ruse didn't work and the police started surveillance on the house.

After they were all charged, Ms Baker plead innocent to the charges of conspiracy and possession of oxycodone and steroids and will be back in court. On her website, Samantha Baker does not mention the arrest directly, but only makes slight allusions to it by saying:

"For those of you who have heard certain personal circumstances that I am going through, what I can say about it is this…I have never nor will I ever involve myself with any illegal activity. It is not who I am as a person, not what I believe in and certainly not something I would involve the people I love with. All I can say is that I will be okay, more than okay, things will turn out as they should and I am very, very positive for the outcome that will be reached. I will rise from this stronger and better than ever".

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  • The former cheerleader identifies herself as an EST Nutrition sponsored fitness athlete and model on her Twitter page.
  • She won the figure division at the 2009 NPC New England Bodybuilding Fitness and Figure and has placed highly at recent national level contests.
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How have we managed to neglect Leni Riefenstahl, the once great filmmaker and Nazi propagandist?
Of course you can post what you want within mod rules (as we have already discussed), and I am happy that you take such an interest in this threads contents ...

I am not keen for it to deviate from the original idea, of 'minor celebs'. There are some major taste concerns over posting major Nazi or Communist era figures (Mrs Mao, Jiang Qing, for example was an actress, so also qualifies), whether they are sort of 'celebs' as well, as their actions and motivations often verge on the edge of being similar in consequence to mass killers ..... and we have also had that discussion already.

If others disagree with this, then they may take the thread in a new direction .....

To clarify, Riefenstahl for example was accused of being a Nazi collaborator .... but so were most Germans and many others in Europe ... i.e. she wasn't doing anything more or less than the average German theatre and film makers of the time (She later won more than 50 libel cases against people accusing her of knowledge having to do with Nazi war crimes). However considering the consequences of her propaganda, and the fact that many Jews she personally knew (and whose names she may have handed over to the Nazis) 'disappeared' and died during this period, I think its likely to verge on extreme bad taste to try and get some entertainment from her actions (the same reasoning applies to Mrs Mao - She was one of the prime instigators of the cultural revolution that killed many millions).

Lesser lights living under these regimes, such as actresses, and models etc, unless unusually culpable, are as available as targets for the pointy stick as anyone else as long as they meet the criteria.

Of course you can start a thread for her (and for any others that are not right for this thread) .... its easy, and you can post what you want within moderator rules. There are help forums on how to post and start a thread of your own choosing ....

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Default Actress: Lily Elsie

Lily Elsie was a popular English actress and singer who rose to prominence during the Edwardian era .... I was surprised that she had no existing posts but luckily she had a few personal and marital issues that just qualify her for an entry here. The daughter of a dressmaker and theatre worker (stage hand) in Manchester, she started on the stage as a child star in the 1890's, she built her reputation over a series of successful musical comedies after she joined George Edwardes' company at Daly's Theatre in London as a chorus girl in 1903, where she took over the role of Princess Soo-Soo in the hit musical 'A Chinese Honeymoon'.

Her first little hiccup was in 1905 when she was in the role of Lady Agnes Congress in 'The Little Cherub' and where she was fired by Edwardes for giggling on stage, but she was soon rehired .... she then moved fairly serenely towards her greatest success in 'The Merry Widow', opening in 1907. She had almost refused the lead role as 'too demanding' a part, as she thought her voice too light for the role. The show ran for 778 performances at Daly's Theatre and made her a star, with both the public and the critics ... one critic wrote "The night was a genuine triumph for Miss Elsie, and she well deserved all the calls she received".

It was at this point that she blossomed in to an Edwardian beauty on a par with Langtree et al. The famous designer, Lucile, later wrote, "I realized that here was a girl who had both beauty and intelligence but who had never learnt how to make the best of herself. So shy and diffident was she in those days that a less astute producer than George Edwardes would in all probability have passed her over and left her in the chorus."

"That social season was a very brilliant one, perhaps the most brilliant of the series which brought the social life of pre-war London to its peak. And just when it was at its zenith a new play was launched with a new actress, who set the whole Town raving over her beauty...."

However, despite the deluge of gifts (including incredibly expensive diamonds and jewellery, which she kept), and messages from male admirers ..... Ms Elsie was indicating to friends that the company of males was not necessarily what she always craved .... Lucile commentated that "She was absolutely indifferent to most [men] for she once told me she disliked the male character and considered that men only behaved tolerably to a woman who treated them coldly".

She continued on the stage enjoying great success until 1911 when she finally succumbed to social norms and pressure, and married the scion of a wealthy textile family, Major John Ian Bullough .... guess what, it was reported to be a very unhappy union. Allegedly her husband went through several phases as a serious alcoholic, partially it was whispered, as a result of his wifes 'frigidity' ... they often 'separated' when she had 'treatments'.

This marital unhappiness (for whatever reason) was made worse as her health fluctuated, including bouts of anaemia, among other ailments. She had endured several operations (for unspecified ailments) during her years onstage .... and this, combined with her increasingly difficult behaviour (she pointedly went sick during matinee performances, or took a week off), allowed the gossip column in 'The Pelican' to dub her "the occasional actress" ... a sobriquet which stuck.

Bullough wanted his wife to retire from the stage, and she initially complied, except for the odd charity performances to benefit the war effort ... but by 1916 she was back on stage and also made two movies, the first was a cameo role in the D. W. Griffith film 'The Great Love' in 1918, and the second was 'Comradeship' in 1919, which was very popular on its release. And then she 'retired' again in 1920. But in 1927 she had returned to the London stage again, only to retire yet again in 1930 (more comebacks than Frank Sinatra).

Finally, in 1930, Elsie's ever unhappy marriage ended in divorce and her health deteriorated further. She had become prone to fits of bad temper and she became a confirmed hypochondriac, spending much of her time in expensive nursing homes and Swiss sanatoria.

Finally she was diagnosed as having serious psychological ailments (not least of which was undoubtedly the much nurtured 'hypochondria'), and she underwent brain surgery that reportedly resulted in an improvement in her health .... however as she spent the remainder of her days in a nursing hospital in London, it seems this improvement may have been only relative.

She died on the 16th December 1962, aged 76.

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  • Much admired for her beauty she became one of the most photographed women of Edwardian times.
  • She didn't become one of Prince Edwards mistresses.
  • Lloyd George British prime Minister 1916-22, a friend of Edwardes, formed a habit of watching Lily Elsie from the wings ... hmm!
  • For a long time her name was whispered in romantic connection with Willie Isaacs, a man-about-town said to have worldly charm, a gay humour, bravura, and vitality. When he died he left Elsie a considerable fortune.
  • She was seen wearing a jewelled necklace which had been sent to her by one of the richest men in London, in return for simply the pleasure of taking her out for tea.
  • She was a child impersonator known as "Little Elsie".
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She was indeed much photographed, and I have linked above to a major repository of pictures ..... I have only uploaded a few below for illustrative purposes, but she could probably stand a thread of her own elsewhere for those who like Edwardian beauty.




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Default Actress: Anna Held

Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born stage performer, and is the last of Florenz Ziegfeld's own women to be posted here (the others were Billy Burke Ziegfeld and Lillian Lorraine).

In 1881, antisemitic pogroms forced the family to flee Poland to Paris, France but they didn't prosper and Anna began working in the garment industry, but then found work as a singer in Jewish theatres in Paris and, later, after her father's death, in London. It was while she was in the Jewish theatre that she found out that show business could be tough, when she was in Abraham Goldfaden's Goldfaden's ill-fated Paris troupe, whose cashier stole their money before they ever played publicly. However in London her career as a stage performer began to gain momentum where she was soon known for her risqué songs, flirtatious nature and willingness to show her legs on stage ... sex always sells

In 1894 her fame was sufficient for her to meet, get pregnant and become the wife of the much-older Uruguayan playboy, Maximo Carrera. Despite her marriage she didn't stop working and continued to tour Europe, and it was when she was appearing in London in 1896 that she met Florenz Ziegfeld .... he asked her to return to New York City with him and she agreed ..... I guess the marriage was over by then

As usual Ziegfeld drummed up publicity about Held, so that when they hit New york there was much public interest, so that when she finally performed, it was too much scrutiny, and although the critics were dismissive of her performance, the public apparently appreciated her. In fact so much so that she became a millionairess in her own right (as well as adding to the Ziegfeld fortune), but she didn't perform in the first genuine 'Follies' in 1908, as she had become pregnant by Ziegfeld although she later lost the child in unknown circumstances.

Despite the fact that held had been his common law wife, in 1909 Ziegfeld began an affair with the actress Lilliane Lorraine and although Held was apparently hopeful the affair would peter out and he would return to her, her hopes were dashed when he turned his attentions to another actress, Billie Burke, whom he would marry in 1914.

When Ziegfeld married, Anna fled to France to entertain French soldiers and raise money for the war effort, where she earned a reputation as something of a war heroine for the courage she displayed in travelling to the front line to perform. She returned to the United States in 1916 and starred in the film 'Madame le Presidente', but sadly her health began to fail. She collapsed onstage in 1918 and died after a few months from multiple myeloma at age 45.

For those of you who like a bit of justice in their tales, Ziegfeld was much castigated by the media who had previously supported him, partly for his mistreatment of Held when he left her, and also for his apparent indifference to her illness and death ... he was also notable for not attending her funeral.

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  • She had a daughter, 'Liane', to Maximo Carrera, shortly after their marriage, and who later became an actress and producer, sometimes billed as Anna Held, Jr.
  • Held donated the $30,000 she earned for 'Madame la Presidente' to the Allied Relief Fund.
  • Was said to possess the extraordinary hourglass measurements of 36-18-36
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'There is no glory in war. You should be so prepared that war will never be necessary; that it will never be necessary to send your young men forth to pour out their life's blood in a useless conflict'.

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Default Bikini Model : Minako Komukai

Minako Komukai, born in Hasuda, Japan in 1985, started her slippy road to 'stardom' as a popular gravure idol in 2000, aged of 15 .... which means wearing few or suggestive clothes in gentleman's reading material .... well teen mags anyway (Gravure idols, in particular younger models, are modelled in swimsuits). Of course you don't stay 15, or even 17 for long, and in a competitive market like the Japanese 'bikini modelling' one, 18 is an old maid. Fortunately Nippon TV stepped in and she got her first TV break in 2001 in teen show, 'Kangei! Danjiki Goikkosama' which got her voted as Fuji Television Visual Queen in the 2001. However, despite the modelling, and the occasional TV work in 2004, through to 2007, she just wasn't really making the grade, and when she reached age 18 in 2003, her career had gone a bit stale ...... but in 2008, she was arrested by the police on suspicion of possessing amphetamines drugs.

The police alleged that she and a male acquaintance in his 30's were in possession of a small amount of amphetamine drugs at the man's house in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in late June 2008. She of course denied the allegations but in Japan to be charged is to be guilty (Tough!!) but the amount was small, and she received a 18-month prison term, suspended for three years.

Her office terminated their contract with Komukai, and she proclaimed that she wanted to live a normal life from now on, like other girls her age. So just like all the other girls her age, that summer she began a string of appearances as a special guest at Asakusa Rockza stripper theater. This caused further legal troubles with her former talent agency RIP Inc. as well as several tabloids which published unlicensed photos from her performances. However the publicity was great, and she finally got the movie part her little heart desired with a role in 'Flower & Snake 3 | Hana to Hebi 3 in 2010 .... yes a bondage movie, which she publicised by putting on a bondage stage act! One of her last public appearances included AV production company 'Soft On Demand’s' porn awards show on Dec. 18.

However in February 2011 Police in Tokyo issued a warrant for her arrest after police arrested a gang of Iranian and Japanese drug dealers last summer and Komukai’s name was among their list of customers. She had already done a runner, turning up in Manila last January and the border agency said that there was no record so far, of her exit from Japan. Under Philippine law, she can stay 21 days in the country as a tourist and may seek extension for up to 59 days by applying for a visa waiver and paying necessary fees .... she is still there .... because of the war, Japan has problematic relations with its neighbours, and extraditions are not always easy

A talent management agency that worked with Komukai until October of last year said in a statement, “We have never heard that she is fond of the Philippines or that she is a regular visitor there, so we cannot speculate about why she might be there now.”

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Default Actress: Stacia Napierkowska

Stacia Napierkowska was a French actress and dancer of Polish descent, who worked during the silent film era. She started as a dancer in the Folies-Bergere but is later cast as lead dancer in a revival of "Lysistrata" by Maurice Donnay Bouffes-Parisiens, which is performed before several thousand people, where her statuesque body and beauty, triggers great enthusiasm in the audience and Paris. She then toured the US in 1913 in "The Captive", a ballet that captures the American public's imagination, but not necessarily the authorities ... She doesn't really enjoy her visit to the US, because during a performance of "The Captive" she was arrested in New York City, when the show and performance was declared indecent.

In 1919, while auditioning for the role of 'the Queen' in an adaptation of "Atlantis", Stacia turns up wrapped in a heavy coat, exchanges only a few words, then signs the contract and disappears. However when the shooting started in 1920 in southern Morocco, she turned up very overweight, and not even an exuberance of boas, ostrich feathers and leopards skins, could hide from the camera that she is a fat queen.

In the end, she is not shown dancing in the film, merely in facial close ups, with loose clothing and vamping her eyes. "Atlantis" still a great success and she appeared in 86 films overall between 1908 and 1926, with her first movie "The impression or Red Hand" .... She also directed the 1917 short film 'L'Héritière de la manade'. But her career was all but over by the late 1920's and she died amid general indifference from the public in Paris in May, 1945 .... mind you there was a war on at the time

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  • On April 27, 1913, the New York Times reported that Napierkowska, the Paris dancer, who has just returned from America, has made some very plain remarks on the subject of Americans. "Really, I have not brought away a single pleasant memory from the United States," she says. "What a narrow-minded people they are -- how utterly impervious to any beautiful impression!"
  • The director of "L'Atlantide", Jacques Feyder, wrote about her propensity to put weight on when not working: "Miss Napierkowska was an extraordinary dancer. I had seen her at a dance festival where she, as slim as a flower stalk, had been enthusiastically applauded by a crowd of Parisians admirers. A year later, having to choose actors for "L'Atlantide, I proposed her for the leading part of Antinea and the producer agreed; so, in a cold December afternoon, she was in my office, all wrapped in a fur coat, to sign the contract. I thought I did not remember so plump a face but my doubt vanished in a moment because I was too happy for having her in my film, and she left the office without having put off her coat.

    The first costume rehearsal was an ugly surprise for me: during last year she had gained a thirty pounds of weight at least. Of course there was nothing to do but hope that a hard work and the burning sun of Sahara could get my Antinea a little less fat.

    It happened just the opposite: the air of the desert whetted her appetite more and more. The dresser complained for having to enlarge the costumes almost every day. Our headquarters were at Touggourt, in a hotel where the food was simply delicious, and because of it my most important occupations were to take away as much bread as possible from her table and tell her dreadful tales about the terrible effects of cream pastry when eaten under the tropical sun
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Default Actress : Asta Nielsen

Asta Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theatricality, to a more subtle naturalistic style but she is largely forgotten now. Like many of our ladies, her upbringing was often from the school of hard knocks, with hunger and disruption never far away (we forget that we are barely 100 years away from a world in which many Europeans and Americans, were very poor and the third world was here). She was the daughter of an often unemployed blacksmith, and a washerwoman, and her family moved several times during her childhood (including a spell in Sweden), while her father sought employment in various trades ... her father died before she was fifteen.

However she overcame this less than promising start, and at age eighteen, Nielsen was accepted into the acting school of the Royal Danish Theatre,and her career path was set. Her first brush with scandal was when in 1901, twenty-year-old Nielsen became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter, Jesta. Nielsen never revealed the identity of the father, and chose to raise her child alone with the help of her mother and older sister ... this decision carrried great social stigma at the time, especially in a social backwater like Denmark. Its just speculation, but the father may well have been her fellow actor and tutor Peter Jerndorff.

She graduated from the Theater school and worked at the Dagmar Theatre, then toured in Norway and Sweden from 1905 to 1907, then worked steadily at the 'Det Ny Theater' in Denmark from 1907 to 1910, but her stage career was hindered by her deep and uneven speaking voice. Something that would later haunt her. Nielsen began her film career with the 1910 tragedy 'Afgrunden' ("The Abyss") and immediately found the secret to great success in the movies, with her overt sexuality in the film's "gaucho dance" scene, which established the erotic quality for which Nielsen became known ..... I have said it before, sex sells!

She married the film director Urban Gad, and moved to Germany on a contract of for $80,000 a year (which was a fortune in 1911), and at the time it was reputed to be the highest salary for a film star in the world (certainly for a woman) .... her star was on the rise and she was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910's, and one of the first international movie stars .... The other great star of the early cinema was Max Linder who was also famous throughout Europe and in America by that time.

With the start of World War I, living in neutral Denmark she remained popular on both sides and in 1915 (before the United States' entry) she visited New York City to study American film techniques .... however, due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were heavily censored in the United States and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She was still popular after the war and in 1924 she was co-starred with Greta Garbo, just months before Garbo left for Hollywood ... Nielsen founded her own small film studio in Berlin during the 1920s, but although she continued to work in Germany in films until start of sound movies, she didn't adapt (that uneven speaking voice), and made only one feature movie with sound.

When she retired from the screen she had made over 80 films and and thereafter, Nielsen acted only on the German stage, but the rise of the Nazis, and the offer by Goebbels of another film studio, caused her to return to Denmark in 1935 where she wrote articles on art and politics, and a two-volume autobiography. She was married at least three times (some sources suggest five) and she died in 1972.

Trivia:
  • Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as 'Die Asta' ('The Asta').
  • In later life Nielsen became a collage artist and an author.
  • A mark of her fame in her early film career was that in a Russian popularity poll of 1911 Nielsen was voted the world's top female movie star.
  • Probably her most notable film was a version of "Hamlet", in which she was a female Hamlet, which was an exploration of a then current theory that the real Hamlet had been, in fact, a woman.
  • She was so famous at one time that the name 'Asta', became a trademark for cigarettes and perfumes.
  • During the Second World War, she provided money for the relief of Jews in Europe .... a risk as Denmark was ocuupied itself.
  • Her mother regularly thrashed her and her older sister, Johanne, with a whip. This was reported this in her autobiography, but otherwise she would hear nothing against her mother, who worked herself to the bone for her daughters
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Having a child seems incredibly important to me; but having a husband not at all so”.... was how she summed up her decision to have a child out of wedlock or relationship, at a time when it was a very big scandal.

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By today's standards she looks rather unusual, but the demands of movies and stage at the time obviously produced different ideas of erotic.




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Default Model : Theodora Richards

Theodora Richards is an 'international' model ... (does that mean she is a model who is 'international' because she has a famous father?), who at age 16 was asked to join other 'Stones' girls, to model for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign, and a career was set in motion. She then moved on to model for the New Zealand-based 'Karen Walker' label. By mid-2006, she had appeared on the cover of Lucire magazine (wow! whats that? ) ... shes now the front for jeans.

Her father was of course Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, so money was never going to be a problem, but as you know 'a Rollin stone gathers no moss', so 'Kate Moss' she ain't, but she turns a dollar or two, and she lives in New York where, in addition to modeling for '4Stroke Jeans' she studies painting and drawing.

However she made headlines around the world! ... well small stories in most of it, when in March 2011 she was arrested for writing graffiti on a convent wall in New York City. The police stopped her, after they spied her writing the words "T [heart] A" with a red paint marker on the wall of a convent in Manhattan's SoHo 'hood ... ooeer, very rock'n'roll!

She was also found to have in her possession, marijuana and another controlled substance, hydrocodone pills, which she allegedly said she bought from a dealer. She was quoted as saying, "I hope I don't get into trouble for this." ... probably not, but it would be a better story if she had.

She went to the Manhattan Supreme Court and was released without bail after rejecting a plea bargain that would have required her to attend two days of community service and one day in a drug treatment center .... this may end up as another post later, but I suspect a fine is all that will be the final result.

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