#barbara mullen

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Milton Greene

Barbara Mullen

1950's

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Chanel Collection Haute Couture Printems/Été 1956. Barbara Mullen porte un tailleur en tweed.

Chanel Collection Haute Couture Printems/Été 1956. Barbara Mullen porte un tailleur en tweed.

Photo Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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Barbara Mullen in Le Pavillon restaurant, New York, in 1950, for Harper’s Bazaar. Photograph: Lillian Bassman

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Model Barbara Mullen in a fashion photo taken in the Village, 1957.

Photo: William Helburn via Staley-Wise Gallery

[vintage-every-day]

Barbara Mullen and Marie Helene for ELLE Magazine. Cap de Antibes, Eden Roc in 1957. Photo by Georges Dambier.

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Amanda Randolph Vs. Barbara Mullen

Propaganda

Amanda Randolph - (The Laytons) - First African-American performer to star in a regularly scheduled network television show, technically it aired in 1948, before the 1950 cut off but I believe the historical importance should allow an exception. Like almost all shows aired on the defunct DuMont Television Network, few details exist and all footage was destroyed when the network shut down in 1956. Yes, she was playing a maid, but still, she was there at the very beginning of commercial television and I think that's cool!

Barbara Mullen - (Doctor Finlay's Casebook) - Born to Irish immigrant parents in Boston, USA, Barbara Mullen's life story is the stuff that movies are made of. Despite a rough start in life, she worked as a singer and dancer, making her stage debut aged three in the USA, before making her debut in London in the play Jeannie and becoming an overnight sensation. Her most celebrated role in television was in Dr. Finlay's Casebook which began airing on the BBC in 1962 and ran for eight seasons. She played Janet McPherson, the housekeeper to Doctors Finlay and Cameron and made up one of the three main roles in the long running series. Janet's kind but firm and no nonsense attitude captured hearts and made her a household name and a British TV icon.

Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket

Additional propaganda below the cut

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Barbara Mullen and Model. Vogue January 1956

Photo: Horst P. Horst

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Barbara Mullen by Frances McLaughlin-Gill 1953

[mote-historie]

From the 1940s until the 1960s Lillian Bassman worked as a fashion photographer for Junior Bazaar and later at Harper's Bazaar where she promoted the careers of photographers such as Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer and Arnold Newman. Under the guidance of the Russian emigrant, Alexey Brodovitch, she began to photograph her model subjects primarily in black and white. Her work was published for the most part in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1965.

1950 Lillian Bassman, Margie Cato for Junior Bazaar.

1951 Lillian Bassman, Sunny Harnett.

1954 Lillian Bassman, Tea with Carmen

1950 Lillian Bassman, The Cost of Living, Barbara Mullen, dress by Omar Kiam for Ben Reig, New York.

1958 Lillian Bassman, The model Anne Saint-Marie, New York, Chanel advertising campaign.

1958 Lillian Bassman, Blowing Kiss Barbara Mullen.

1951 Lillian Bassman, In This Year of Lace, Dovima, dress by Jane Derby, the Plaza Hotel, New York.

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Barbara Mullen in a Gilbert Orcel hat / Ph. by William Klein / Vogue Paris 1956.

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Barbara Mullen by Richard Avedon, 1951

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Barbara Mullen wearing a town suit by Sheila Lynn, and a hat by Florence Reichman, photographed by Kay Bell for Harper's Bazaar, April 1949

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Harper's Bazaar March 1956

Christian Dior Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1956. “Flèche” line. On the left, Barbara Mullen wears "Monte Carlo" a short white-faille dance dress gathered high at the chest with a bow tie and extended to a wide hem. On the right, Renée Breton in a black éclair evening dress belted above the waist with a flat satin bow and decorated with large unironed flat pleats.

Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1956. Ligne "Flèche". À gauche, Barbara Mullen porte "Monte Carlo" une courte robe de danse en faille blanche froncée haut au niveau de la poitrine par un nœud papillon et étendu jusqu'à un large ourlet. À droite, Renée Breton dans une robe de soirée en faille noire ceinturée au-dessus de la taille avec un nœud plat en satin et ornée de larges plis plats non repassés.

Photo Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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model, Barbara Mullen  c.1950  (photo: Lillian Bassman

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