One of the true beauties of the classic glamour scene is, without
a doubt,
Diane Webber. Discovered by the man who discovered
the young Marilyn Monroe, Webber
went
on to be photographed by some of the legends of the genre like Russ
Meyer, Bunny Yeager, and
Peter Gowland. With Meyer, as with many other
classic models, her career blossomed. She appeared twice in Playboy
(May
1955 and Feb. 1956) under Marguerite Empey, a variation of her real name
Diane Marguerite. She also appeared in one of Meyer's hard-to-find
short nudie-cutie features called
This Is My Body.
Also,
she was used quite often in how-to glamour photography books, such as the
ones made famous by Gowland. One of the most fascinating
aspects about Webber, though, is her devotion to the naturalist
lifestyle. Whereas nudism was an open joke for most of society in the 50's,
Webber
took
the lifestyle seriously, and defended it many time. She, in fact published
her own book about her and her family and their nudist lifestyle called
"Those Wonderful Webbers."
Webber is one those few pin-ups
who one can recognize without a second look, and arguably the most graceful
of all glamour models.
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