Pamela Green appeared at least eight times on the cover of the Swedish men’s magazine Cocktail. The A4 magazine printed on newsprint was a mixture of short stories, cartoons and pin-ups with a colour centrefold. Here’s issue eleven featuring Pamela Green “dressed” as Rita Landre. For issue 5 see my Continue Reading
Rita Landre
Cover Girl Rita Landre – Cocktail #5
Pamela Green sporting a gipsy look as Rita Landre for the cover of the Swedish magazine Cocktail, no. 5, 1963. It’s lovely to see Pamela Green’s assets being appreciated abroad. The magazine is A4, so quite large compared to similar English magazine of the time. At twenty-eight pages including the Continue Reading
A Bit of Bush – Carneval #23
Pamela Green featured on the cover of another continental magazine — this time Carneval #23, from Sweden, published in 1966. An A4 magazine of 16 pages including the cover with a black and white interior. Not to be confused with the English magazine Carnival. Pamela, on the cover as Rita Continue Reading
Fiesta: Summer Special
Fiesta Summer Special featuring Pamela Green as Rita Landre on the cover. The magazine features several models, such as Lyn Shaw, Rochelle Lofting and Norma Stevens, by such photographers as Eva Grant, Russell Gay and Harrison Marks. Only two of the eighty pages are dedicated to Rita Landre. There’s no Continue Reading
Bosomy Beauties featuring Rita Landre
Other than issue 13 of Solo in 1958, the only magazine dedicated to Pamela Green’s alter ego Rita Landre that I know of is Bosomy Beauties, no. 18. It was released by Phoebe Publishers of New York. Date unknown. 32 black and white pages long, twenty-three of them featured Rita. In Continue Reading
Rita Landre and Pamela Green together
He’s an extremely rare picture of Pamela Green with Rita Landre together. It was taken for the book Pamela that was printed by Luxor Press (ca 1956). George and Pam received a few copies of the book, but they never got paid. Their prints and transparencies were never returned either. The book has 66 Continue Reading
45 RPM E.P. Cover Girl
Pamela Green and George Harrison Marks would often provide images for record covers. This one features Pam dressed as Rita Landre. The extended play 45 features four songs covered by Ed Cee, Rick Corio, Sam Horn and their various orchestras. Yakety Yak is sung by The Poor Crowns. It was released in Continue Reading
Rita Landre – Pamela Green in a Wig
Rita Landre first appeared in the magazine Show Business. Apparently she was a trained trapeze artist who left the circus to sing in a cabaret in Paris. Her father was French, her mother Dutch. Actually, sorry to spoil it for everyone, Rita was in fact Pam in a wig. The Continue Reading
Hex Appeal – Witches’ Brew
In 1949, Pamela Green joined Spielplatz Naturist Club in Bricket Wood, near St. Albans. Another famed member was Ross Nichols (1902-1975), founder of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Ross was a committed naturist and joined the utopian Spielplatz community in Hertfordshire in the 1930s. A neighbouring naturist club, The Fiveacres Continue Reading
Gerrard Street Exhibition
This ad comes from the magazine Gerry published by Gaffinia. According to the blurb in the front of the magazine it features American photography “designed especially for the British photographer studying the techniques of other countries”. No date but my guess it from around December 1959 / January 1960. No Continue Reading