Pin Up Icon is featured prominently on the menu at JANE BOND BBQ Grill in Calgary, Alberta Canada
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Jeanne Carmen – on Arkansas State Government website
Pin Up Icon JEANNE CARMEN is now included on the official website for the state of ARKANSAS as being one of the famous citizens born in the small little town of PARAGOULD in GREENE COUNTY
here is the link:
http://greenecounty.arkansas.gov/county-history
Here is the transcript:
Jeanne Carmen
Jeanne Carmen spent her early childhood in Arkansas with her family picking cotton. At age 13 she ran away from home, eventually landing in New York City and taking a job as a dancer in an off-Broadway touring company. The early 1950s found her in Las Vegas, in the company of the likes of mobster Johnny Roselli. She discovered she had a natural talent for the game of golf and made great hay and much money hustling on the links. In the early ’50s she turned her back on the game of golf and went to Hollywood, where she was often in the company of some of that town’s most notable swingers, men like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and many others. She also maintained a close relationship with Marilyn Monroe. Jeanne never made it into the “big” movies but appeared in many “B” pictures, and was quite an item at the celebrity parties. After the death of her close friend Monroe, Carmen dropped out of sight and resided in Arizona.
JEANNE CARMEN on THE ORIGINAL BAD GIRL BLOG in Sydney, Australia
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#badgirlcrush – Jeanne Carmen
This week’s #badgirlcrush is the brunette, and occasional blonde bombshell, Jeanne Carmen!
“I was just a little country girl that wanted to be a movie star.”
Jeanne worked as a waitress in St.Louis before moving to New York City on the suggestion of a producer and landed a job as a chorus girl in the broadway show Burlesque.
In 1949 she got a job modelling golf clothes for Jack Redmond in Manhattan and discovered her natural talent for the sport!
In a whirlwind she became a professional trick shot golfer who could hit a golf ball off a tee in someone’s mouth 210 yards. Jeanne stated “There wasn’t anything I couldn’t do with a ball.” , and in springolators, even more impressive!
Jeanne moved to Las Vegas when she was dating a Chicago mobster – Johnny Roselli, and they hustled tourists who took one glance at Jeanne and doubted her golf talent ; she’d let them get ahead for a couple of holes then dazzle them with her trick shots, she never lost a round!
By 1953 Jeanne had moved to Los Angeles and invested in property, this saw her acting career begin but unfortunately she didn’t think of it fondly, “ Then I got into the movies and that was the worst thing I could have done.”
With a hourglass figure, green eyes and raven hair, Jeanne was typecast in sultry spanish roles and appeared as a señorita in The Three Outlaws and an Indian girl in War Drums in 1957.
One of Jeanne’s most noted films was Untamed Youth, which starred Mamie Van Doren and Eddie Cochran, Eddie was besotted and named the song ‘Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie’ after her!
At that time in Hollywood most A List starlets were platinum blonde, and Jeanne was eclipsed by Mamie in Untamed Youth, so to try and compete with the likes of Mansfield and Monroe, Jeanne hit the bottle and went blonde.
The change to platinum blonde bought about more film roles and Jeanne cemented her title as the Queen of B Movies, and her enviable figure shot her to pin up stardom.
To this day Jeanne is most recognisable as a blonde, but we think she looks great brunette or blonde!v
Jeanne (centre) and Mamie Van Doren (blonde) at an after party for Untamed Youth in 1957.
Jeanne left Hollywood in 1962 after the death of her close friend Marilyn, and focused on raising her family in private in Arizona, she later passed away at home on December 07, 2007, but remains a pin up icon of the golden Hollywood era.
“Everything I’ve done, I think I did at the right time…And it turned out great. Maybe a few marriages I could have done without. As for my career, it absolutely happened the way it was supposed to happen. A door opened and I was a pin-up”
With her enviable figure, here’s some of Jeanne’s best Bad Girl outfits!
Big love heart eyes over this killer two piece leopard print suit!
The only pin up to make us swoon over a hoody and shorts!
Patsy – Jungle Pat
(Columnist for The Original Bad Girl Blog)
JEANNE CARMEN’S LIFE-OF-THE-PARTY LEGACY LIVES ON
FILM NOIR BLONDE – BLACK & WHITE AND CHIC ALL OVER
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http://www.filmnoirblonde.com/jeanne-carmens-life-of-the-party-legacy-lives-on/
by Film Noir Blonde
So, at the memorial service for Marilyn Monroe last month, I metBrandon James. Brandon is the son of Jeanne Carmen, a pin-up model, ace golfer, B-movie actress and friend of Marilyn’s.
Jeanne was born Aug. 4, 1930 in Paragould, Ark., to a family of cotton pickers. After winning a beauty contest at 13, she left home to pursue her dream of Hollywood stardom. Though she never became a top-tier actress, she most definitely left her mark and had a good time – clinking glasses and climbing under the covers with the likes of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra andJohnny Roselli.
After Marilyn died on Aug. 5, 1962, mobsters told Jeanne to keep quiet about Marilyn’s connection to the Kennedy clan, according to her son. Jeanne heeded the warning and, leaving her party-girl life behind, became a wife and mother in Scottsdale, Ariz. She died Dec. 20, 2007.
Her name appears in Christopher Andersen’s new book, “These Few Precious Days,” which details JFK’s last year with Jackie, including his presumed affair with Marilyn and use of amphetamines provided by “Dr. Feelgood.” Andersen writes that Marilyn frequently confided in Jeanne during this time, reportedly asking her, “Can’t you just see me as first lady?”
Additionally, a clip of Jeanne in “The Monster of Piedras Blancas” (1959) is used in American Standard’s new at-home movie marathon commercial, which, btw, also features an adorable cat. 
The ad will run for four months.
For more info about Jeanne, you can visit Brandon’s site and watch this edition of E! True Hollywood Story. Perhaps more off-screen than on, she was a femme fatale and blonde bombshell who was the scribe and star of her own fascinating drama.
MARILYN MONROE: THE TRUTH ABOUT HER DEATH! – article in Argentina
Read the explosive article published in Argentina at this link
http://tinyurl.com/Diario-Jornada
Here is a brief translation
The affairs of Monroe with Kennedy and his relationship with the gangster Johnny Roselli are also confirmed in the exciting and complete biography of Jeanne Carmen: My Wild, Wild Life as a New York Pin Up Queen, Trick Shot Golfer Hollywood Actress, written by her son Brandon James.
According to the book, Carmen’s life in Hollywood came to an abrupt end after his close friend Marilyn Monroe died mysteriously on August 5, 1962. The next morning, Carmen’s apartment was destroyed and looted. She crossed the intruder and thrown to the ground. The man standing next to her was the famous Hollywood private detective Fred Otash, who in turn pulled a gun, pointed at her face and fired. Fortunately, the gun barrel of the gun was empty and only came a loud noise. Carmen collapsed and began to sob after hearing the accusation that the mob boss of Chicago, Sam Giancana, had killed Marilyn Monroe in an attempt to ruin the political careers of the Kennedys.
Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962. The public fascination and adoration for the unlucky star did not disappear. So who would want to steal from someone who was so dear to life? “Many people had a lot to lose if Marilyn spoke,” said author Darwin Porter in his book “Marilyn at Rainbow’s End: Sex, Lies, Murder and the Great Cover Up.”
MARILYN MONROE DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE! – article in Venezuela
Read the explosive article published in Venezuela at this link
http://www.telesurtv.net/analisis/Marilyn-Monroe-no-se-suicido-20140805-0033.html
Here is a brief translation
“Marilyn Monroe Did Not Commit Suicide”
According to the book “Marilym at Rainbow’s End: Sex, Lies, Murder and the Great Cover Up” the acclaimed author and investigative journalist Darwin Porter, Marilyn Monroe died in the hands of five gangsters just before the heartthrob star plan a press conference He had shattered the lives of the Kennedy clan and Mafia boss Sam Giancana.
If Monroe had lived, she would have revealed her affair with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. And it would have disclosed the ties that bound JFK mobster Giancana, Porter said.
Bobby Kennedy and her husband actor Peter Lawford visited Monroe hours before her death to try to convince her not to publish her secrets, he said.
Later that night, Monroe was ambushed by Johnny Roselli, a mobster boyfriend who left her door unlocked for the five gangsters entered Porter said. The murderers surprised the star as she slept with a rag soaked in chloroform. Then they stripped and introduced an overdose of barbiturates in her rectum by an enema with a lethal amount of chloral hydrate, a powerful sedative and narcotic.
“Her close friend and actress Jeanne Carmen told me that Marilyn thought she was too big forhim to do something. After Marilyn’s death, Johnny Roselli ordered Jeanne to leave the village. Shemoved to Arizona, she stopped acting and worked as a waitress. That shows how afraid I was, “she said.
In the book, Porter also explains that after JFK won the Democratic nomination for president, Peter Lawford organized a wild party for him in his beach house in Santa Monica. Marilyn said JFK personally called to invite her and suggested, “You should bring a friend.” She understood the intention of that invitation and called Jeanne Carmen to invite.
Carmen later said that this wild party at the home of Lawford quickly degenerated into an orgy. She said that after swimming with some of the attendees, who were naked, retired to a room Lawford’s house to take a shower. Marilyn knocked on her door and told her to JFK wanted to come to his room. Carmen rejected the proposal in principle but Marilyn asked him, “We should think of this as if we were doing it for our country.”
There are serious doubts that Marilyn had to pray too hard. Without much persuasion, Carmen entered the room followed by Marilyn JFK. The candidate for President of the United States was lying in bed in his underwear. He called Carmen and began to give massage on the shoulders. He whispered that Marilyn and she should think of themselves as “pioneers of the New Frontier of the sixties.” Carmen admitted that she finally relented – “I was overwhelmed by the extraordinary charm of Jack, his warm eyes and buzz caused by consumption of alcohol at Peter’s party. ”
As I looked up after kissing on the mouth JFK, she saw Marilyn threw her towel down and approached the bed.
JEANNE CARMEN at CINE KOLOSSAL in ITALY
Read the article published in Italy at this link
http://www.cinekolossal.com/star2/c/carmen/
Her full name was Jeanne Laverne Carmen. American actress, queen of pin-up ’50s, in the period, dominating the b-movie
Famous not so much for the performances as for outrageous flirt, true, false or assumed, undertaken with famous celebrities and not only (from Kennedy brothers to Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Tony Curtis, Bob Hope, Errol Flynn and many others), such that they end up repeatedly on the front pages of newspapers and the most important American magazines.
Platinum blonde, sultry voice, voluptuous and exuberant in its provocative behavior, without basic education in compulsory schooling, only thirteen left her family and moved from Arkansas to New Orleans where she works as a waitress at a popular restaurant. Here, he is discovered by Italian singer Sandy Scott (who will become her husband, for a short time, 15 years apart), on tour in the US, that will start to her artistic career.
She moved to New York, is a model for sports clothes and soon became an icon of the first female golfer.
Tightens ties with the celebrities of the silver screen and in particular with Marilyn Monroe, close friendship and confidence that allows her to appear in several films, all second-rate: The three outlaws (1956), War Drums (1957), and the horror, unprecedented in Italy, The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959).
The visits with celebrities, politics and shady business (known her relationship with the alleged gangster John Rosselli), on the one hand in favor of the celebrities on the other,
After the death of Monroe, received death threats for revelations about the death of her friend, She abandons the set and retired to Arizona. Only in 1978 is back in California, Later appears in a TV special dedicated to her.
Suffering from cancer, she died two years later at 77 years.
THE EMPTY GLASS. New Movie about MARILYN MONROE featuring JEANNE CARMEN
The movie rights to the fascinating film noir crime novel THE EMPTY GLASS by J.I. Baker (Penguin Books, 2012) has been optioned by legendary Hollywood Mega Producer IRWIN WINKLER. Winkler is the producer on such iconic American films as WOLF OF WALL STREET, GOOD FELLAS, THE RIGHT STUFF, RAGING BULL and all 5 ROCKY movies.
Pin-Up Icon JEANNE CARMEN is featured prominently in the book as a platinum blond femme fatale who knows the secrets that will unlock the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe.
Here is a link to a news item about the movie option:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marilyn-monroe-novel-the-empty-glass-winkler-films-374847
New Article on JEANNE CARMEN in BACHELOR PAD MAGAZINE
Bachelor Pad Magazine interview
Author BRANDON JAMES remembers his famous Pin-Up Mom JEANNE CARMEN
An amazing new 6 page article on Pin-Up Icon JEANNE CARMEN has just been published in BACHELOR PAD MAGAZINE (issue 31 Spring 15). The Digest of Atomic Culture. Pin-Up girls, Retro Lifestyle, tiki and more. Celebrating Booze, Babe’s and Burly Q
Click this link to check out the Bachelor Pad website and get this copy for your collectors edition.
http://www.bachelorpadmagazine.com/
Click this link to check out Jeanne Carmen’s page at JAVA’S BACHELOR PAD website
http://javasbachelorpad.com/carmen.html
The article is a Q & A with JEANNE CARMEN’S son BRANDON JAMES about the book he wrote titled JEANNE CARMEN: MY WILD, WILD LIFE As a New York Pin Up Queen, Trick Shot Golfer & Hollywood Actress.
There are 6 pages filled with revealing and often hilarious stories about JEANNE CARMEN and her sexy escapades with stars such as ERROL FLYNN, ELVIS PRESLEY, MARILYN MONROE, JACK BENNY and President JOHN F KENNEDY and his brother, attorney general ROBERT F KENNEDY
You can view a pdf file of the whole article at this link:
Here are a few excerpts:
On Elvis Presley:
“…I love the story of how my Mom invited Elvis over to her apartment for dinner and attempted cook him a special southern fried chicken dinner. As a gift, Elvis brought her a sexy French Maid outfit. My Mom put it on and then went over to check on the chicken cooking in the oven. When she bent over, it was more an Elvis could handle and well.. I guess the chicken ended up burning that night.
On Marilyn Monroe and Jack Benny:
“…Yes, my Mom and Marilyn Monroe went to a steam room on Santa Monica Blvd with Jack Benny. Jack wore a fake beard and dark glasses and a baseball hat so he wouldn’t be recognized. They did it several times. Then one time they were all three in the steam room wearing their towels and Marilyn and my Mom were talking and laughing and gossiping when suddenly Marilyn looked down and saw that Jack Benny was visibly excited which was uncharacteristic for him. Usually he was cool with the girls being naked around him and he always behaved like a perfect gentleman. However this time, he became aroused and started to pinch my Mom’s and Marilyn’s boobs and butts which they were not having any part of. Suddenly Jack became belligerent and used explicit language which shocked Marilyn and my Mom. They decided they needed to cool Jack down a bit so they tackled him and because Jack was older and hardly a muscleman, he immediately fell to the floor and didn’t put up much of a fight. My Mom took a large eucalyptus branch out of one of the pots in the steam room and began spanking Jack with it while Marilyn had him in a head lock. My Mom scolded him and with each swat she would say “Jack are you ever going to use foul words again?” and Jack would mutter “No.. never.” “Are you ever going to pinch Marilyn’s butt again?” Swat!!! “No.. never.” Then Jack faked a hear attack and my Mom and Marilyn freaked out thinking it was real and they rolled Jack over and began to administer CPR and Marilyn started to give him mouth to mouth resuscitation when Jack suddenly burst out laughing. They all had a good laugh on the way home thinking about that one.
On Marilyn Monroe and John F Kennedy:
“It was during this period that Marilyn and my Mom lived at 882 North Doheny Blvd in Frank Sinatra’s apartment complex that Marilyn Monroe started her affair with President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy. Marilyn also started spending a lot of time with Peter Lawford and Peter’s role at the time in the Kennedy family was to get girls for Jack Kennedy.
It was during this period that my Mom and Marilyn went to a wild pool party at Peter’s beach house and Jack Kennedy tried to get them to have a threesome with him. Jack gently massaged my Mom’s shoulders and told her “Think of it as a New Frontier. The Frontier of the 1960’s. And ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. And girls, this afternoon, think of me as your country.”
On Marilyn and Robert F Kennedy:
It was also during this period that my Mom and Marilyn went to a nude beach with Bobby Kennedy in Malibu. Bobby was at Marilyn’s apartment one day and he noticed a fake beard and glasses laying around and he asked what it was all about. Marilyn and my Mom told Bobby about how they would go to a steam bath on Santa Monica Blvd with Jack Benny and Jack would wear the disguise so nobody would recognize him. Bobby started laughing and said if Jack Benny could get away with it he could. Then Marilyn and Mom dared Bobby to don the disguise and go to the nude beach in Malibu and Bobby being a Kennedy couldn’t resist a dare and went along with it.
New Article on JEANNE CARMEN in GERMANY in ROCKABILLY RULES magazine
A new article on Pin Up Icon JEANNE CARMEN has been published in GERMANY in ROCKABILLY RULES Magazine – The Online Magazine that Rocks!
Read the full article at this link:
http://www.rockabilly-rules.com/blog/jeanne-Carmen
Here is a brief excerpt: [translated into English]
After the death of her dearly beloved friend MARILYN MONROE, JEANNE CARMEN was threatened by JOHNNY ROSELLI, who worked for the Mafia boss SAM GIANCANA from Chicago. Because the beauty’s life was in danger, she retired from Hollywood and fled to Scottsdale in Arizona.
For more than a decade JEANNE CARMEN lived there incognito and dyed her platinum hair brunette. She never mentioned her showbiz career, married, had three children moved on and led a quiet and peaceful life without the big stage, the spotlight or any glamour. In 1998, Jeanne Carmen was the subject of the TV biopic “Jeanne Carmen: Queen Of The B-Movies” that rotated [on the E! Entertainment Television series True Hollywood Story].
In the opening scene it evokes that the beauty [Jeanne Carmen], “had maintained a dangerously-close friendship with MARILYN MONROE and the KENNEDY’S and that following the death of MARILYN, CARMEN was told to leave the city immediately.”
On 20 December 2007 JEANNE CARMEN died of a malignant lymphoma at the age of 77 years at her home in Orange County, California
JEANNE CARMEN is still unforgotten and always will be the best friend of the film icon MARILYN MONROE in memory.
Text: Isabella Labella
The Official Jeanne Carmen Website 