#sheila ryan

[love-pinups]

Sheila Ryan

[hellooldsmelly]

[citizenscreen]

Sheila Ryan (June 8, 1921 – November 4, 1975)

[dontbestingybaby]

Even more headscarf / hood / turban appreciation from Photoplay, 1943-1945

Revlon Advertisement in Photoplay, April 1945

Jane Russell in Photoplay, January 1943

Olivia de Havilland by Paul Hesse in Photoplay, March 1943

Sheila Ryan in Photoplay, May 1943

Jinx Falkenburg in Photoplay, March 1944

Jennifer Jones by Paul Hesse in Photoplay, September 1944

Chesterfield Cigarettes Advertisement in Photoplay, October 1944

Yvonne De Carlo in Photoplay, April 1945

Listerine Advertisement in Photoplay, April 1945

Unnamed model in Photoplay, April 1945

Merle Oberon in a Max Factor Advertisement in Photoplay, October 1945

Judy Garland by Paul Hesse in Photoplay, November 1945

[doll-elvis]

“It’s funny to me when people say he was a sex symbol. I wonder, are we talking about the same person? Elvis wasn’t about sex for me. He was about innocence and being a kid. The look that everyone died over, that twinkle in his eye, that charisma, that personality never happened as a prelude to sex, it happened in conversation. He’d be saying how cute I looked, flirting in a very innocent way. That was only the little boy in him”

- Interview with Sheila Ryan

[makeitquietly]

Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan and Stan Laurel

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Sheila Ryan

[presleypictures]

Elvis driving his yellow 1971 De Tomaso Pantera sports car he originally gifted to Linda Thompson. The Pantera wasn't the most reliable car around and many owners complained of rust issues and general break downs.

Elvis shot the car on several occasions in frustration and the vehicle was eventually sold off.

George Klein was at Graceland one afternoon and commented on the Pantera sitting around in the back driveway. He asked Elvis about it and Elvis was apparently annoyed at the car at the time. It had quit on him driving in Memphis and he had someone pick him up and drive him back to Graceland, leaving the car on the side of the road. Even after it was returned to Graceland, they were unable to get it started again; as Elvis is standing there relating this story to George, he pulls out a handgun and shoots the car... and it starts up and runs.

Sheila Ryan recalls: “One time we were gonna go for a ride in the yellow Pantera and I was petrified. I was worried because he didn't drive that often. We were always in a limousine.

It was late and dark and we were on the Mississippi interstate. It's just the two of us and we were going seventy-five and I'm thinking, okay, I can deal with seventy-five. And then eighty-five and ninety-five and a hundred and thirty. We were going a hundred and thirty. Then Elvis says, “Here, you take the wheel,” and takes his hands off and I was like, “Please, that's not funny, please,” begging him. I was really scared. It was a side of him that I didn't see often. Carefree. He wasn't on the job. He wasn't working. He wasn't in Vegas. He wasn't doing shows. He was just having a good time. When I saw those gates with the musical notes on them, I was really happy to be back.”