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.
