Article: Cheesecake, the nonfattening kind, and its history in Hollywood


AP Worldstream
07-29-2005
EDITOR'S NOTE: One in an occasional series on an earlier time in Hollywood. The author has been covering the movie world for the AP for more than 60 years.

By BOB THOMAS

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP)_ When Joan Leslie won a contract at Warner Bros. at age 15, she was instructed to report to the swimming pool at the Lakeside Country Club two blocks from the studio. Her duty: to pose for photographs in bathing suit and shorts.

This was her introduction to cheesecake, also known as leg art, a Hollywood ritual from the 1930s into the 1960s. Studios issued photos of curvy starlets_ and stars_ to the nation's newspapers and magazines, and they were printed ...

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