Virginia De Lee was a gorgeous, nudie-cutie redhead who was a fixture on the covers and in the pages men's magazines from the late 1950's and early 1960's. She appeared often in titles such as Adam, Escapade, Show, and Caper. She also appeared in photography digests of the day, which as everyone knows was a way to buy nudie pictures and pass it off as "art" or "technical how-to." One of the most notable of these is "The Glamour Camera of Russ Meyer."
     Her measurements were 36-25-36, perfect for a classic pin-up gal. It took her a little while to develop her look--with her hair hanging heavy on the right--but once she found that she was pin-up gold. She had that perfect mix of girl-next-door innocence sprinkled with the sex kitten ready to pounce.
    De Lee was born in Hollywood in the late 1930's into a show business family...sort of. Her father was an old vaudeville magician who went by the name of Major McBride. Her mother was a wardrobe mistress at a movie studio. De Lee took the usual route for glamour girls of her era--she worked as a model and then tried her hand at acting. She worked on a few TV westerns and her only credited movie role was as a stripteaser in the 1957 crime film Hell Bound. Her domestic life even warranted a small blurb in the November 18, 1957 issue of Time Magazine: "In Los Angeles, Model Virginia De Lee, 21. won a divorce after testifying that when she asked her husband why he didn't get a job, he slugged her 'and told me to mind my own business.'"
     By the mid-1960's, she stopped appearing in men's magazines. Reports have her re-marrying and moving to Arizona to settle down.