[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"]

Esquire Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with commercially printed illustrations paired with descriptive text. The front of the clipping features a motion picture advertisement for MGM's musical comedy in color film "Anchors Aweigh" starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. The leaf shows photos of the actors in costume at the base of the ad. The back of the leaf includes a continued article titled "Man the Kitchenette" along with an aside titled "On the Edge of the Clef".
Date: September 1945
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl paired with Sleepytime Gal by Phil Stack followed by a reproduction print of the painting "The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed" by Melbourne Brindle done especially for Esquire Magazine in 1946 for the September edition. The painting celebrates the story of one of the pioneers of large game angling and author Zane Grey who traveled to Tahiti in the spring of 1930 to catch Tahitian striped marlin [Blue Marlin] and on May 16, 1930, caught a Marlin that weighed in at 1040 lbs even after being mutilated by sharks as recorded in Greys' book “Tales of Tahitian Waters" published in 1931.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Brindle, Melbourne
System: The UNT Digital Library