| RITA HAYWORTH was a close second to BETTY GRABLE as themost popular pin-up girl of World War II. The ever- modest Grable neverthought of herself as a sex symbol. In fact, she claimed the famous shotin her a leggy pose taken from the backside was purely an accident, theresult of an artist needing the angle to make a drawing. Whatever its origin,the poster was distributed to GIs at a rate of twenty thousand each week.She realized her good luck, saying, "I am in show business for twogood reasons, and I am standing on both of them." Her studio agreed,and insured her legs for one million dollars through Lloyds of London. |
