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| Andrew Cowdell, Betty, 2015, oil and gold on linen |
Betty Grable danced, sang, and acted her way through the 1930s to become the biggest box office star of the 1940s. She had honed her famously gorgeous legs to the extent that her studio reportedly insured them for $1 million with Lloyd’s of London. The same legs were soon captured in the most iconic photo of bathing-suit-clad Grable, back to the camera and glancing over one shoulder. As most of her popular roles occurred in the early 1940's American servicemen voted Grable their favourite pinup, and painted her image on the sides of bomber planes.
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