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== Bio == | == Bio == | ||
;From Time Magazine, Monday, Jan. 08, 1945 | ;From Time Magazine, Monday, Jan. 08, 1945 | ||
:'''Frances Vorne''', a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself "The Shape", wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as "Pin-Up Girl of the Year". First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week "The Shape" had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the ''London Daily Mirror'', immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy in [[Yank|Yank magazine UK]] | :'''Frances Vorne''', a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself "The Shape", wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as "Pin-Up Girl of the Year". First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week "The Shape" had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the ''London Daily Mirror'', immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy in [[Yank|Yank magazine UK]] | ||
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Frances’ past is shuddered in mystery. It was noted by the papers that she was of the Ukrainian extraction – this prompted me to connect Frances with the Vorne family, who immigrated from Russia (Ukraine was part of Russia back then) in the 1910s. The names were Jacob and Pearl (parents) and two younger brothers, Daniel and Martin, and a sister, Zelda. This is from the 1940 census – Frances perhaps did not live with them at that time. I assume she was born in about 1920, like most of the Yank cover girls. May 30, 1920, New York is a possible date/place. She was five feet six and a half inches tall and weighted 126 lbs, with an 36 inch bust. | |||
Frances was a regular in the papers in about 1945, mostly due to publicity stunts. For instance, this news flash: Frances Vorne has a soldier friend who came home from overseas a few days ago with a present of the remnants of a German parachute. Frances, who likes to swim more than anything else, found that there was just enough cloth left to make a swimming suit. Frances wanted to be an actress, but she never made a movie (if IMDB is to be believed). | |||
My own guess was that Frances was already married by 1945. She divorced her groom in 1946. She continued working as a model at least until 1949. She falls of the newspaper radar from then on. | |||
Frances Vorne (possibly) died on August 8, 1990, in New York. | |||
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==External links == | ==External links == | ||
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Bio
- From Time Magazine, Monday, Jan. 08, 1945
- Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself "The Shape", wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as "Pin-Up Girl of the Year". First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week "The Shape" had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy in Yank magazine UK
Frances’ past is shuddered in mystery. It was noted by the papers that she was of the Ukrainian extraction – this prompted me to connect Frances with the Vorne family, who immigrated from Russia (Ukraine was part of Russia back then) in the 1910s. The names were Jacob and Pearl (parents) and two younger brothers, Daniel and Martin, and a sister, Zelda. This is from the 1940 census – Frances perhaps did not live with them at that time. I assume she was born in about 1920, like most of the Yank cover girls. May 30, 1920, New York is a possible date/place. She was five feet six and a half inches tall and weighted 126 lbs, with an 36 inch bust.
Frances was a regular in the papers in about 1945, mostly due to publicity stunts. For instance, this news flash: Frances Vorne has a soldier friend who came home from overseas a few days ago with a present of the remnants of a German parachute. Frances, who likes to swim more than anything else, found that there was just enough cloth left to make a swimming suit. Frances wanted to be an actress, but she never made a movie (if IMDB is to be believed).
My own guess was that Frances was already married by 1945. She divorced her groom in 1946. She continued working as a model at least until 1949. She falls of the newspaper radar from then on.
Frances Vorne (possibly) died on August 8, 1990, in New York.
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