Mid-Century Leg Art

The glamorous gams of pinup models, burlesque dancers, classic actresses, and chorus girls. Run by lanallure.

[the-loneliest-doll]

Burlesque dancer Misty Ayers c. 1950s

[love-gia-carangi]

Bettie Page by Irving Klaw

[roseydoux]

Gene Tierney in Rings on her Fingers (1942)

[nitratediva]

The essence of the pre-Code era. From Night World (1932).

[gatabella]

Ava Gardner, 1942

[fitesorko]

Ann Margret

[whataboutbobbed]

LIGHTS! CAMERA!! ACTION!!!

go the ladies in the King of Burlesque (1936)

[billyhopkinson]

Betty Grable

[thefashioncomplex]

Stockings, Walter Sanders, 1943

[20th-century-man]

Anita Ekberg

[whataboutbobbed]

Beulah McDonald (Gwynne Shipman), Kay Gordon, Dorothy Thompson (Dorothy Ward), Bonita Barker and Dene Myles are quite the low rollers, under the direction of Paramount Pictures dance director LeRoy Prinz

[whataboutbobbed]

the pointer sisters

[mudwerks]

Heels & Stockings - c.1935

[kafkasapartment]

Marie-Hélène Arnaud at the Hotel Eden Roc, Cap d'Antibes, 1957. Georges Dambier. Gelatin silver

[back-then]

Dressed in orchids, Southern California⁣ 1940⁣ ⁣ Source: University of Southern California⁣ ⁣

[fuckindiva]

Lana Turner in Honky Tonk, 1941

[avagardner]

Marlene Dietrich photographed by Milton Greene, 1952.