SEXY GLAMOR SHOT OF MAYBELLINE MODEL MARJORIE WOODWORTH - HAND SIGNED BY HER - HAL ROACH PLAYER

I found this fabulous picture of Marjorie Woodworth on Ebay for $59.00 if you are interested please click to view.

In 1938, leggy 15 year old Marjorie Woodworth was an extra, playing a baton twirler in Twentieth Century Fox'  Alexander's Ragtime Band. In 1941 Hal Roach Studios,  groomed her to be the next Blond Bombshell...the likes of Jean Harlow, (who died in 1936.)  But in 1939 when Fox-Girl, Betty Grable with her million dollar legs, singing and dancing talent, rose to stardom, Marjorie became just another pretty face on the B-movie Queen circuit. 

Marjorie was a favorite Pin Up Girl with the Soldiers during WW ll and received telegrams and hundreds of pieces of fan mail mainly from lovesick soldiers fighting in WWII. http://www.ioffer.com/i/marjorie-woodworth-original-hal-roach-photo-broadway-ld-169023824

The Studio's called my great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams

 and asked him to do a series of Maybelline ads featuring Marjorie... hoping the PR might strengthen her fan base.  The teen-market loved her and she sold a ton of Maybelline Mascara, but that's about all that became of the big splash.

Marjorie Woodworth Personal Collection

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Born: June 5th, 1923 in Los Angeles, California.Died:
 August 23, 2000 (age 77) in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

  Hal Roach discovered what most of Hollywood already knew: Stars aren't made, they're born and even though Marjorie had that California Girl glow and exuded plenty

of sex appeal, she didn't have the talent to take

 her to the top. 

Typecast only as an ingenue ruined her chances of becoming box office star. This was common with so many beautiful young starlets, caught up in the Hollywood Studio/Star System.  Marjorie resembled Alice Faye and Betty Grable, but didn't have the Star Quality the Studio needed to bank role her.

http://www.maybellinebook.com/2011/10/betty-grable-and-harry-james-hollywoods.html

( Click to see post on Betty Grable.)

They promoted her in Movie magazines...being

 seen with Hollywood's biggest male stars...They 

spent money on her clothes, acting lessons,

 grooming, singing and dancing lessons...but

 when it didn't pay off she faded from public view.

 

Broadway Limited.

Today few people remember Marjorie Woodworth, but today there seems to be a serge of renewed interest.

Maybelline model and actress Marjorie Woodworth - 1941

Marjorie Woodworth, a true California Girl, born in 1923, captured the teen-market at 15, when she played a Baton Twirler in Alexander's Ragtime Band, (staring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche in 1938.)  Woodworth was discovered and being groomed by 20Th Century Fox to be the next Blond Bombshell much like Jean Harlow, Bettie Grable and Alice Faye. 

Like so many young starlets Tom Lyle contracted to do full page, glossy color print ads for Maybelline, Woodworth aspired to be a Super Star but never made it to the top. However she did become a favorite GI Pin Up Girl during World War 11 and drove the youth-market into dime stores  where they purchased truck loads of Maybelline.

Woodworth played a featured role in the Musical Comedy, Broadway Limited is a 1941, (directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, and Zasu Pitts.)  She was known as the All American Co-Ed, and cast in the 1941 film All American Co-Ed.

The Girl Next Door, Pin Up Girl, Blond Bomb Shell and the next Jean Harlow - Woodworth created the perfect image for Maybelline during the early 1940's when teenage age girls gained spending power and developed their own identity.  The average high school girl with an extra dime for a 10 cent box of Maybelline might easily change herself into a glamorous Star with a few strokes of a little black brush. 

18 year old Marjorie Woodworth lead the parade as teenage girls came of age during the WAR YEARS. 

Pick up your copy of The Maybelline Story and see how my mother, Pauline Mac Donald, Bill Williams girl friend was transformed into his favorite high school sex symbol, Marjorie Woodworth, with a little Maybelline on her eyes when she was 15.

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