23 Classic Pinup Girls (PHOTOS)

Stylelist | By Jada Wong | Become a fan | Posted: 10/14/11 03:03 PM ET | Updated: 10/14/11 03:08 PM ET

While most women may have hung posters of boy bands and Johnny Depp on their walls, most men had posters of famous pinup girls such as Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot. Their luscious hair and voluptuous bods were hung on walls and drawn onto sides of planes. They knew how to work their curves and keep all eyes on them -– something we definitely can all take note of.

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babaganoush9

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02:34 PM on 10/16/2011

I can get a better sellection of photos looking through an average Photoplay magazine from the 1940s. Oh, Well. I always was a fan of big Hedy and Rita but don't forget Susan Hayworth or Ann Sheridan. There's a 70 year old pic of Ann, fully wrapped in a big puffy robe, in my office that blows the sox off any of the new comers.

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spytheweb

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11:06 AM on 10/16/2011

All white.

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007live

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08:43 PM on 10/16/2011

I agree, can we get some colored girls in here, im sure there were plenty back then, ex..lena horne, dorothy dandrige, josephine baker,

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rp2par

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07:25 AM on 10/16/2011

I remember when Farrah Fawcet became a 'pin-up' girl. She was one of Charlie's Angels. She really sold a lot of posters.

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ringerang8

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01:20 AM on 10/16/2011

Although this was my fathers generation, i remember seeing these pictures growing up. The younger generation now wouldn't understand what these woman and pictures meant at that time, especialy during the war. It was a different world back then, and sadley, that generation and their ways, are now in the past. But to be honest, they could have chosen better pictures of all of them. I've seen alot better pictures than the ones they chose . But , they are all good looking ladies, and i agree, they left out a few. But we didn't.......Carry on, gentelmen !!!

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asilva125

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10:43 PM on 10/15/2011

they forgot Raquel Welch and Farrah Fawcett and Barbara Eden and Jane Russel and Lynda Carter

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madkono

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08:56 PM on 10/15/2011

hedy lamar, as delilah, was the ultimate!!!

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thewirah

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07:29 PM on 10/15/2011

They are all white.

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frank day

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07:44 PM on 10/15/2011

Good point.

There had to have been black pinup girls.

I found this photo. Don't know who she is.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llwps63uSR1qi6n8yo1_400.jpg

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asilva125

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10:54 PM on 10/15/2011

they had eartha kit and lena horne

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teddyray1

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07:46 PM on 10/15/2011

What's your point? You got something against white women? You a racist?

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marco01

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09:45 PM on 10/15/2011

His point is obvious, and valid.

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frank day

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07:23 PM on 10/15/2011

Next to Mrs. Day,

Sophia Loren has always been my dream date.

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bcunnin679

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07:41 PM on 10/15/2011

Rita Hayworth, my choice

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scoot87501

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06:19 PM on 10/15/2011

Who selected these particular photos? That one of Rita Hayworth is awful! Rita was one of the most beautiful women ever to appear in films. The classic pin-up of her kneeling on a bed wearing a satin nightgwon was one of the most popular during World War II and is a stunner! Try to catch a showing of 'Gilda' on TCM and you'll be amazed by her beauty!

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Jesus Germanotta

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06:28 PM on 10/15/2011

Someone who knew VERY little about pin ups!

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h jablome

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03:37 PM on 10/15/2011

masturbation in the days of yore must have been a challenge.

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Enzo Ferrari

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03:30 PM on 10/15/2011

Standards were low back then. I feel like I just looked at a bunch of pictures of someones grandmother !

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frank day

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07:24 PM on 10/15/2011

Compared to whom??

The fake boobed anorectic air heads of today???

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wilsonbarbell

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09:30 PM on 10/15/2011

Grow up. little boy.

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apocalypzia

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03:15 PM on 10/15/2011

This article has one of the worst lede sentences I've read in a long time. Comparing women hanging posters of boy bands and Johnny Depp to men hanging posters of Brigitte Bardot as if all this is happening in the same century takes the cake for bad writing.

More evidence that big-time websites will publish anything, no matter how ridiculous, just to fill otherwise empty space.

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Buck Winthrop

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03:14 PM on 10/15/2011

It is really amazing how the style and type of beauty has changed and evolved over the years..Great photos.

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amleth

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01:35 PM on 10/15/2011

Maybe it's just the color, but Diana Dors looks terrific here.

Many folks do not know, btw, that Hedy Lamarr was the inventor of the process used in today's cell phone systems.

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