_{“For her seventeenth birthday in 1949, she was exhibited by Life as an icon of sexual opulence. In a seated portrait by Philippe Halson, she stares out from the page, vacant and voluptuous, her heavy breasts, three quarters bare, supported by a dull satin gown the color of melted money. While she was still earning titles like Miss Junior America, she looked, in the words of the critic Richard Roud, dipping back into his high-school lexicon, ‘like a girl who would really put out and I mean really put out’.”}