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Calendar Girls is a 2003 British comedy film directed by Nigel Cole.Produced by Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi, based on a true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research (subsequently Blood Cancer UK) under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999 after the ...
In 1994, Snap-on tools discontinued their popular calendar, making Taylor the last official Snap-on calendar girl (November/December 1994) [8] as reported by the Wall Street Journal. [ 9 ] Taylor briefly returned to her modeling roots and walked the runway one last time, for New York fashion designer Betsey Johnson , in her Spring 2001 ...
Jewel Flowers. Jewel Flowers Evans (7 July 1923 – 6 February 2006) was an American pin-up model best known for her work with Rolf Armstrong as a "Calendar Girl" during the 1940s and 1950s. [1][3] Jewel Flowers was born in 1923, in East Lumberton, North Carolina, in the part of the town known as a cotton mill village, to Calton and Leah ...
Duane B. "Dick" Bryers (July 2, 1911 – May 30, 2012, Tucson, Arizona) was an American painter, illustrator, and sculptor. [1] [2] In the 21st century, Bryers was rediscovered as the creator of the unconventionally plump pinup girl Hilda, who appeared in calendars from the mid-1950s to 1980s.
The SAG Foundation's 6th Annual Los Angeles Golf Classic. Being the avid golfer she is, the 49-year-old Dunning frequently appears in celebrity golfing matches -- one of which she even reunited ...
Senri Kawaguchi. Senri Kawaguchi (川口 千里, Kawaguchi Senri) is a Japanese jazz and fusion drummer. In Japan she is sometimes known as tekazuhime (手数姫), ("Princess of Many Strokes"). [1] She has the image of a gecko on the front of her 20-inch bass drum, and on her Zildjian drumsticks. [2] She has won many awards for her drumming.
The Ingenues toured the United States and other countries from 1925 to 1937. William Morris started the group. [1] Managed by Edward Gorman Sherman (1880–1940), the orchestra performed with great popularity around the world in variety theater, vaudeville and picture houses, often billed as "The Girl Paul Whitemans of Syncopation."
Chicago. (musical) Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption in the ...