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\"chesterfield-halloween\"<\/a>Actress Dorothy Lamour<\/a>, a Hollywood star of the 1940s and early 1950s (who made a comeback in the 1970s.) She appeared in several movies set in the South Pacific and is often remembered for the publicity photos of herself wearing a sarong, making her the “number 1 pinup girl of the U.S. Army” in World War II<\/a>. The ad mentions her movie Wild Harvest<\/a><\/em>, which appeared in 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Dorothy Lamour, a Hollywood star of the 1940s and early 1950s (who made a comeback in the 1970s.) She appeared in several movies set in the South Pacific and is often remembered for the publicity photos of herself wearing a sarong, making her the “number 1 pinup girl of the U.S. Army” in World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,36],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1M8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4920,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4920","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":0},"title":"End of Year Lists: Books, Movies","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Religion Dispatches lists five important new books on alternative and metaphysical spirituality in America \u2014 I prefer that to saying they are about the \"nones,\" which is a vague term \u2014 yes, well, so is \"alternative.\" Catherine Albanese of UC-Santa Barbara has done important work in identifying first the non-theistic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1850,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1850","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":1},"title":"Veronica Lake for Halloween","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Australian blog Sexy Witch has featured some promotional materials from the 1942\u00a0 movie I Married a Witch lately. It starred Veronica Lake, who filled the \"perky petite blonde\" slot in several \"screwball comedies\" of the 1940s, together with banker-turned-actor Fredric March as the descendant of her 17th-century persecutor.\u00a0 Internet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Halloween\"","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=halloween"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":641,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=641","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":2},"title":"A cover design at last?No\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A cover design at last?No one asked me, but this image has appeared on the web page for my book. All I asked for was a moon. I think that is a full moon seen through fog. Or something. I can live with it. 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Clifton","date":"December 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Pitzl-Waters notes an upcoming Guillermo del Toro movie:The duo will be co-producing Born, a film adaptation of [Clive] Barker's story about a family who gets more than they bargained for when they move to the English countryside.The scary countryside is a staple of British--and frequently North American--film-making. Perhaps that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=279","url_meta":{"origin":6828,"position":5},"title":"Snippets \u2022 Why am I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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She characterizes H\u00e4xan, for instance, \"the first 'nunploitation' movie\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}