Bombshells: Marie Wilson

Lovely, innocent-looking, well-endowed comedienne Marie Wilson was a featherbrained delight instantly reminiscent of the zany Gracie Allen. Unlike Allen, however, Marie was a knockout–with high cheekbones, a wide slash of a mouth and a figure that wouldn’t quit.

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That’s taken from golden age of Hollywood starlet Marie Wilson’s IMDb bio. Besides offering a less-than positive assessment of Gracie Allen’s hotness (ouch!), this jaunty little paragraph does a nice job of summing up Marie Wilson’s appeal: just take a look at this stunning shot for irrefutable proof of her “high cheekbones” and “well-endowed…figure that wouldn’t quit.”

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Sorry, lost consciousness for a minute there…Holy mother of god!

Ahem. Wilson (1916–1972) was best known for playing the sweet but exceedingly ditzy Irma from the popular My Friend Irma, first on radio, then on film, and finally in a television series. She also starred in plenty of films during her career, including with Groucho Marx in A Girl in Every Port, where she played car hop Jane Sweet and squeezed that “figure that wouldn’t quit” into this tight little number:

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Heart palpitations, happening now.

Ahem. Always a popular cheesecake model, Wilson’s figure was so revered that she even served as the inspiration for a massive, 35 foot leg statue displayed outside a hosiery manufacturer in Los Angeles. They certainly chose the right woman to help promote their new nylons.

Over the course of her career, Marie Wilson cultivated the sexy airhead persona on film, television, and radio, earning stars for each of the three mediums on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In fact, she was so good at playing bimbos that she once mused, “My closest friends admit that whenever they tell someone they know me, they have to convince them that I’m not really dumb. To tell you the truth, I think people are disappointed that I’m not.” Marie Wilson’s alluring looks and comedic chops certainly never disappoint us, that’s for sure.