Charming!
Rough justice from the Bunty sisterhood
Here are four back covers from issues of the Bunty Picture Library from 1967. Pin-ups for girls, role models if you like. The bitchiness comes from the captions, which you should read in descending order.
Cheers! Judy Geeson doesn't get a "beautiful", she's merely "talented". But Shirley Anne Field (my favourite of the lot, for what it's worth, Bunty Junta) is a plain old "star of stage and screen." Her only adjective is British. Miaow! Who needed Heat in 1967?
Mind you, Virginia McKenna may be "beautiful", especially with that light shining in her eyes, but she's not "talented" like the un-beautiful Judy Geeson. The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. As you were.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 6:09 PM
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I DO hope there's a reason that your hanging around old issues of 'Bunty', Andrew...
The past is indeed a far away galaxy. Is it right and proper for us to get a bit chin-stroky about it sometimes? Well, I think so. Just today I was discussing with a friend how I used to go out on my bike on Sundays, my parents didn't know where I was, no mobiles, and as long as I was home before dark...hold on, didn't someone write a book about this?
Good pics though! I think Judy Geeson's beautiful.
this is what happens when you hang-out with the likes of that Herring chap.
tsk tsk
got any more ?
All my teenage fantasies involved Judy Geeson. She was the teen Julie Christie! Who could forget "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush"?
I'll be honest, I had a thing about Sally Geeson in Bless This House.
Andrew, actually I'm seeing Sally tomorrow evening at a friend's birthday party. Still very beautiful. Any message you'd like passed on?
Wow! She retired from acting to become a school teacher didn't she? How exciting. Tell her she may have left acting behind, but she will live forever in the two Carry On films she did, and in Bless This House. Not many teachers can say that. There's a really nice recent picture of her in Gallery 2 on Robert Ross's website here.
"andrew collins.
talented northamptonian who writes a bit. Used to be able to draw but we don't see so much of that these days"
andrew isnt it 20 years this year that you graduated from chelsea?
I have some old 'Girl' comics from the Fifties. Their idea of pin-ups were Donanld Sinden, The Duke of Edinburgh and Humphrey Lyttleton, wearing a tank-top and blowing his instrument. It's different for girls....
Girls can be very bitchy and cutting. But its usually just jealousy.
James, yes it is 20 years since I graduated from Chelsea. Amazing. It hadn't crossed my mind. (Where is that quote from? Who's Who?)
My parents know Virginia McKenna and whenever they'd see her around town would comment on how serenely beautiful she was looking, especially my mum. I have to say she's my favourite in A Town Like Alice.
I'm at this very moment sitting opposite one of your Chelsea colleagues....
Which one, Clair?
Andrew, I'll pass it on. Actually Rossie'll be there as well as it's a party for a mutual pal.
Ah, a Chelsea boy. 20 years out of St Martin's myself. Chose the college because of the proximity to the Leicester Square cinemas from Long Acre. Oh, I'm getting all misty-eyed just thinking about it.
You didn't live at Ralph West Halls did you, Dog? (I once interviewed Richard Williams, by the way, for Radio 4. He was nuts, in a good way. You worked with him, didn't you?)
Gino Tambini...tall, blond, fine physical specimen....
Andrew, yeah, first year at Ralph West. And had a park view instead of the estate opposite.
Oh Dick was certainly nuts, in a good way.
I worked on the Rabbit straight out of art school and then later with Dick on The Thief and Cobbler. This was up until he got the money to make it. As soon as he got the funding I was off because I knew it was going to be a train wreck. Which was a great shame.
Gino Tambini...
It took a while for the name to sink in but... did he go on to do an MA at Chelsea? Because he did his BA at St Martin's with me.
(sorry if I'm turning this into Friends Reunited).
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