#peggy hopkins joyce

[alwaysalwaysalwaysthesea]

Accessories of Hollywood stars, including Peggy Hopkins Joyce's "cocktail pipe," in the January 1934 Photoplay.

(source: archive.org)

[gatabella]

Jean Harlow by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1933

“She is the most effective woman I have ever seen, the most sensational and carnal creature in female form. She is what Jean Nash and Peggy Hopkins Joyce should have looked like. She is Sex, projected on a poster with a capital S—arresting, startling. But to analyze her—it is as if a sculptor said, ‘I am going to make a woman with the most beautiful body ever dreamed of by man.’ And so he shaped and formed with infinite feeling for design, sensuality and perfection. It was a labor of love, and he achieved the most divinely female symmetry ever seen. But he became so absorbed in the glorious body—he forgot the face! It is a strange puzzle of features, thrown hastily in a heap. There is sharp discord in juxtaposition. The features have no rhyme or reason or relation to each other. The final result, with the thin, soaring, striped eyebrows, is definitely Oriental. But, I repeat, she is the most effective woman I have ever seen. She has the most wonderful good nature. She was in the midst of filming a picture and had to dart in and out between scenes, rushing back and forth between my camera and the set, when I photographed her. It must have been trying, but you would never have known it.”

-photographer George Hoyningen-Huene on Jean Harlow, Photoplay, Aug. 1934

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[kayflapper]

Randolph Scott and Peggy Hopkins Joyce 1933.

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 Portrait of Gold Digger Supreme, Peggy Hopkins Joyce by Raymond Neilson. To learn more about the rather fascinating, outrageous life and times of Peggy, I strongly suggest the biography “Gold Digger” by Constance Rosenblum. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[sealedintime]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1920s

[detournementsmineurs]

"Peggy Hopkins Joyce with the Portuguese Diamond" by Raymond Perry Rodgers Neilson, 1925.

[les-annees-vingt]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce, 1925.

[rmmvr]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1920s.

[clarabowlover]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce (1920′s)

[thedabara]

ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1957

Musidora at 68 from unknown events

Dorothy Sebastian at 53 from cancer

Norma Talmadge at 63 from pneumonia

Peggy Diggins at 35 from car crash

Soava Gallone at 77 from unknown events

Edna Marion at 50 from pneumonia

Sheila Terry at 46 from suicide

Märta Torén at 31 from brain hemorrhage

Elinor Fair at 53 from liver disease

Peggy Hopkins Joyce at 64 from throat cancer

[kayflapper]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce 1934.

[the1920sinpictures]

1926 Window card ad for Peggy Hopkins Joyce in "The Skyrocket". From Silents, Please, FB.

[gatutor]

Bo Ching-Peggy Hopkins Joyce-W. C. Fields "Casa internacional" (International house) 1933, de A. Edward Sutherland.

[detournementsmineurs]

Peggy Hopkins Joyce wearing her Portuguese diamond (supposed to be found in Brazil during the 18th Century and part of the Portuguese Crown Jewels) offred by Walter Chrysler (1928) before she sold it to Harry Winston (1951).