JEANNE CARMEN on promo poster for new club in London, England

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There is a new club called THE SPANGLE opening in London, England in the famed Noting Hill district on Feb 28th that is featuring pinup icon JEANNE CARMEN on their promotional advertisements.

Where Glitz meets Grit.
London’s hottest new vinyl party serving the filthiest
50s’n’60s rhythm and blues.
Get Sleazy..Get Spangled!

If you happen to be in Notting Hill in London, England on February 28 you can get tickets at this link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-spangle-club-tickets-1135415120189?aff=oddtdtcr&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3tTnkx7r1UwD-qaLxtiz9edTTQRAuntZE7Me0fBb-Rh-BiraQIt7ql7Xw_aem_ruJCgEzcXfVSms-bX5g-KQ

The Spangle Club
The Spangle Club
The Spangle Club
The Spangle Club

JEANNE CARMEN in new book on Rock N Roll Hall of Famer EDDIE COCHRAN

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Pinup Icon JEANNE CARMEN is featured in this new book on Rock and Roll Hall of Famer EDDIE COCHRAN.

EDDIE COCHRAN was in the first wave of American Rock Stars along with ELVIS PRESLEY, BUDDY HOLLY, JERRY LEE LEWIS, CHUCK BERRY, JAMES BROWN and LITTLE RICHARD

They were all inducted in the very first award ceremony in 1987

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 11, page 61


There was another persistent rumor on the set of UNTAMED YOUTH, this time that Eddie was getting close with an actress named JEANNE CARMEN who was paying LILIBET in the film.

Jeanne was vivacious and beautiful and came with a backstory that read like a movie script. At age thirteen, tired of picking cotton beneath the harsh southern sun, Jeanne had run away from home.  She’d wound up in New York where she got work as a burlesque dancer in BERT LAHR’s big show and posed as a pinup model for the popular girly magazines of the day.  As well as the bump n’ grind of burlesque and the stag shoots, Jeanne supplemented her income by working as a trick shot golf hustler in Las Vegas.

 

The world she moved in brought her into contact with connected guys, it was “Handsome” JOHNNY ROSELLI, a mob guy with movie connections, who first introduced her to FRANK SINATRA, and Frank who got her out to Hollywood.  Once in Tinsel Town, Jeanne went on to appear in twenty movies.  There weren’t many women like JEANNE CARMEN around in the mid-1950’s.

 

She was a strong, independent, smart and beautiful trailblazer.  She smouldered on screen and took her acting seriously enough to study with Strasberg while she was in New York. That Eddie fell for Jeanne, while at the front of the stages he’s playing on, groups of pretty girls are starting to gather, tells us a lot about him, about how he was starting to become attracted to cool, powerful, accomplished women, the same women that other young men found intimidating and hard to approach.

 

Eddie liked Jeanne for real even though that meant keeping their relationship under wraps and off MAMIE VAN DOREN’s radar.

 

One time while the pair were leaning against a car necking on the studio lot, Mamie sashayed by and would have seen Eddie and Jeanne in loves young embrace had they not ducked down behind the car and waited for the bombshell starlet to pass.

 

Eddie got romantic with Jeanne. He sent her bunches of red roses surrounding a single yellow flower at the center. 

 

When the pair of them took part in a set-piece dance seen in the film featuring a whole bunch of cast members they situated themselves at the back of the shot and got caught up in their own bump-and-grind routing, not caring whether or not they made the final cut. 

Chapter 11, Page 61
Eddie hangs out with the Untamed Youth crowd. From left to right: Don Burnett and Lori Nelson, Yvonne Lime, Jeanne Carmen, Eddie, Valerie Reynolds, John Russell and Msmie Van Doren

JEANNE CARMEN in famed crime writer JAMES ELLROY’S new book THE ENCHANTERS

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Pinup Icon JEANNE CARMEN is featured on over 20 pages of this fascinating historical novel about MARILYN MONROE and JOHN F KENNEDY and BOBBY KENNEDY

At the end of the book, in the DRAMATIST PERSONAE is a list of THE ENCHANTERS including JEANNE CARMEN: Pill peddler, golf trick-shot artist, onetime call girl. Dig her “pill-pillow parties” in The Enchanters

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 12, 2023 – Fiction – 448 pages

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.

Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash.

The freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim “Opportunity is love.” Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.

It’s the Summer of ’62, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away.

The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is, resoundingly, the great American crime novel.

About the author (2023)

JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.