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Published: 2011-08-22 20:15:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 3627; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 212
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Description *I cranked this out this morning, and the next thing I know, I fell asleep right at my computer. Now my knees are paying the price...

Done in pencil and Illustrator colors, I based this on a publicity photo of actress Joi Lansing, one of my favorite blonde bombshells of the 1950's...

Joi Lansing was a striking beauty from Utah to began to model from the instant puberty hit, giving her a 38 1/2–23–35-inch figure. She hit the big screen at the age of 20, appearing in three movies her first year in Hollywood (1948), and although her early acting was wooden, producers didn't care because of her looks and body. Along with movies, television roles came along, as she appeared in such TV shows like Wild Bill Hickock, I Love Lucy, and many of you Deviants may remember her as "Mrs. Superman," a female police detective posing as Superman's wife, being the bait for a notorious gang in The Adventures of Superman. She also played Bob Cummings' girlfriend in The Bob Cummings Show, as well as the glamourous wife of country singer Lester Flatt in The Beverly Hillbillies.

By the mid-1960's roles began to dry up with the death of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood finally got tired of the "blonde bombshell" type. Her last major film role was B-movie called "Hillbillies in a Haunted House" in 1968, and TV parts dwindled until 1970. In early 1972, the buxom actress, still youthful-looking at the age of 42, received a crushing blow with the discovery of a massive cancerous lump in her left breast, resulting with the breast's removal. She only lived a few more months, dying on August 7th of that year at the age of 43...
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Forcedlactationlover [2017-11-03 23:24:33 +0000 UTC]

Sometimes wooden, but always easy to see, and played her parts well. I, too, remember her from my youth, mostly from 1960 on. 

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FMTFluver [2014-01-01 21:22:35 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I'm one of those who first noticed Joi in the "Mrs. Superman" episode of Adventures of Superman you mention.  I've sometimes pictured that particular episode playing the the living room as Dad or Older Brother walks by, and they suddenly found themselves interested in Superman like never before.  I remember the end of that episode Sgt. Helen O'Hara (Joi's character) saying Superman might not get away so easy if he proposed to her again and Lois Lane warning her that she would have competition.  I suspect a lot of those dads and older brothers were thinking "No, she doesn't" and envying Superman's x-ray vision.


I've always thought Joi Lansing should've been up there with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Page as a pin-up icon.  That she wasn't, I suspect, is because (1) most of Joi's work was on television, not in the movies and (2) to the best of my knowledge, Joi never did any nude photos.  She died far too young.  I do remember seeing her obituary when we lost her -- I wasn't quite 19 years old yet! I have some photos that I've collected of her over the years that I may post here in my gallery someday.  Thank you for the tribute.

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LudHughes In reply to FMTFluver [2014-01-02 17:35:52 +0000 UTC]

And thank you!  

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gjjpjr [2011-08-22 23:00:41 +0000 UTC]

I'd never heard of Joi. Thanks for the story. And for the picture.

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ozwick [2011-08-22 20:49:18 +0000 UTC]

Interesting! I've heard of Joi, but didn't know her story.
As for your drawing, my first thought was to comment, "Lucky duck!"

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LudHughes In reply to ozwick [2011-08-22 21:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Ha!

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