In the back pages of various men's magazines during the 1950's
and 60's you would see countless ads for 8 mm loops or photo sets that
would come to you door in plain brown envelopes. These were the sets that
were more daring and leaned more toward S&M and fetish shots. One of
the best known photographer and distributor of these kinds of photos was
Irving
Klaw. Klaw was the same man who fed a hungry male
populous a steady diet of photos featuring Bettie
Page, Lili St. Cyr,
Tempest
Storm, Blaze Starr,
and the like. If the model wasn't a burlesque dancer, then Klaw usual posed
them as the classic "kitten-with-a-whip". Tamer than his out-and-out bondage
photos, this persona had just enough female domination to satisfy those
who were tired of the run-of-the-mill blonde bombshell. Redhead Jackie
Miller, with her impressive 5' 11'' 40-26-38 figure,
fit Klaw's fetish role perfectly. She could give you a charming smile
one minute, and the next hit you with a coquettish pout.
Before her work with Klaw,
Miller
was a showgirl in the Miami area and did modeling for the one-and-only
Bunny
Yeager. With Yeager you get models posed on sunlit
beaches, with
Klaw you get them on couches inside New York
studios. Like
Bettie Page,
Miller was able
to transition easily between these two worlds for a while, but as her career
progressed,
Miller wound up posing for more of the Klaw-esque
indoor fetish shots. In all probability,
Miller was another
victim of pin-up model typecasting. Just like an actor who plays their
role too well, Miller just looked too good in impossible
heels and corsets.
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