re: "Babes from days gone by (NSFW)" thread as per request by Kafka..

Gloria Grahame

Mala Powers
At the age of 16, Powers began working in radio drama, before becoming a film actress in 1950.
At age 19, while on a USO entertainment tour in Korea in 1951, she contracted a blood disease and nearly died. She was treated with chloromycetin, but a severe allergic reaction resulted in the loss of much of her bone marrow. Powers barely survived, and her recovery took nearly nine months

Lilli Palmer

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She was famously described as a difficult presence on set

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WHATS WIRE HANGARS DOING IN THIS CLOSET??

I've always liked Mala Powers, going back to when I first saw the comedy "Geraldine" (1953) on a late-show in the 1970s. Powers was never a prominent star or anything, but made a lot of films in the Fifties. She had a rather vibrant personality, more akin to a 1930s-era actress, as opposed to the often bland 1950s-era glamour-puss types. One of her more memorable roles is as the titled female outlaw in "Rose of Cimarron" (1952). She pops up in a lot of 1960s television shows too.

Jacqueline Bisset