Hollywood Cheesecake: 60 Years of Leg Art

286 pages
Edited by Madison S. Lacey, Don Morgan
Foreword by James Cagney
27,7 x 21,2 cm 
Language: English
Paperback
Publisher: Citadel Press
1981

Hollywood Cheesecake gathers publicity stills and pinup photographs for hundreds of Hollywood actresses. In the budding days of the motion picture, the people who produced and promoted films concluded that photographs of undraped or semi-draped beauties gave sales of their products a powerful. And thus “Leg Art” or “cheesecake” was born. This was a Hollywood ritual from the 1930s to the 1960s. Studios issued photos of curvy starlets — and stars — to the nation’s newspapers and magazines, and they were printed widely.