Hollywood has never been shy about using sex to sell its movies, or its movie stars. In fact, in all its guises — from the kiss that inevitably ends a hokey romantic comedy to the sweaty, graphic (and ...

Picture a voluptuous woman with silky blond hair, take away most of her clothing and add a pair of heels so high she could get vertigo, and pow! She is transformed into a pinup model. The pinup girl ...

They're cartoony, suggestive and they defined an era of pin-up art. Artist and illustrator Gil Elvgren painted an all-American brand of "cheesecake" pictures of sexy, idealised calendar girls during ...

When Joan Leslie won a contract at Warner Bros. at age 15, she was instructed to report to the swimming pool at the Lakeside Country Club two blocks from the studio. Her duty: to pose for photographs ...

Bettie Page, a pinup queen of the 1950s who posed for racy photographs that blended the wholesome and the forbidden, and decades later became an influence on fashion and pop culture, died Dec. 11 at ...