Pin Up Girl (1944)

By 1944 Betty Grable was the most famous pin-up in the world: Frank Powolny's swimsuit photograph of her was requested by millions of servicemen and later chosen by Life as one of the hundred photographs that changed the world. Fox built this Technicolor musical around her new title, and its publicists let it be known that her legs were insured with Lloyd's of London for a million dollars. She made the film while expecting her first daughter with the bandleader Harry James. Within a couple of years she was the highest-paid woman in America.

The Three Sheet was printed in sections and pasted up outside cinemas, and at nearly seven feet tall it was designed to stop passers-by in their tracks. Few wartime examples survived the paste and the weather; this one has been linen-backed.

• Year: 1944
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original US Three Sheet
• Size: 41 x 81 inches
• Product Code: P2596