Smug In His Harem

You gotta wonder how a pasha or a sultan or a sheik with eight veiled-but-topless women in his harem has the energy or inclination to put all his smug self-regard into the experience of the fancy cigarette he’s smoking:

You gotta wonder, that is, until you find out that this artwork is tobacco-company propaganda: it’s a detail from a 1950 advertisement for Abdulla No. 7 ‘Virginia’ Cigarettes.

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A Sheikly Seduction

Nobody defines “hard act to follow” like Rudolf Valentino. This may be why the 1977 biopic Valentino was a flop — who could play him? But Rudolf Nureyev gave it the old college try, and this lobby card and poster art suggests he at least looked the part:

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Kidnapped For Harems and Brothels

One of the things I love about mid-20th-century American men’s magazines is that they were trying so hard to be sleazy. The result? Lovely illustrations of the girl next door in dire peril, looking as though she’s buying a nice Halloween costume at Macy’s with a most irregular assortment of fitting assistants:

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