It’s Sunday so it must be crush day and to days offering gives me fond memories. Up to day is British model and actress Valerie Leon.
Those of you with an age to remember the seventies she starred in a TV advert for ‘Hai Karate’ a men’s aftershave. A buxom woman she played a woman who drives small and puny men wild by wearing aftershave, in a series of commercials for the product.
I was a fan of the product and it was the first aftershave I use but it did not attract the attention of a buxom mature woman or any female. One could live in hope. Looking back it was an easy sell, beautiful woman scantily clad and compared with the other big seller ‘Brut’ fronted by Henry Cooper and for Christ sake show-jumper Harvey Smith as faces of the product! It was an easy choice.
Leon appeared in several of the Carry On films, and was a Bond girl twice and starred in one of my favourite Hammer Horror films, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. She plays Egyptian queen, murdered but somehow puts herself into a trance, the high priests believe it would help remove her of evil by removing her hand and sealed up for all eternity in her tomb. A couple centuries later her tomb is discovered, shockingly her body is perfectly preserved as if she had only recently died.
Being curvaceous and sexually attractive in the seventies she was not out of work, there was high demand with filmmakers and TV makers with British farce films and TV popular for big boobs, stockings, and suspenders. But the smouldering Hai Karate glamourpuss - did not perhaps provide an ideal template of desirable womanhood for a young boy who was only dimly aware of the mysteries of sex.
No comments:
Post a Comment