"Sarah" Smile!

Well, we love glamorous portraits, catalogs and glitzy accessories, so we're likely to love this passel of Sarah Coventry jewelry ads (and catalog covers/pages.) My first encounter with Sarah Coventry (apart from sometimes hearing the name as a game show sponsor or consolation prize!) was late in life. I had been scrambling for something I wanted Lee Meriwether to sign and found a photo very similar to the one shown here at left. I adored the way she looked in it. Recently, I discovered a whole bunch of others, with or without our Lee, and they range from the benign to the fabulous! You be the judge. Stay tuned near the end for an impromptu bonus feature.  ;-)

This is the version of the ad that I asked Ms. Meriwether to sign. She told me that once her mother had taken a print of this shot and decoupaged it in a lovely frame, but that it had later been destroyed during an earthquake.

Be sure to click on this one and check out the heavily teased 'do she's sporting here! No wonder she eventually turned to shorter, simpler styles...

I just LOVE this one. It combines so many things I love...! Meriwether, makeup, chiffon, chunky jewelry. Did I just set off the sprinklers in here??

Another Miss America, the divine Mary Ann Mobley, serves as your guide for the ritualistic sacrifices being held in the back room...!  Ha ha!

We've always had a soft-spot for ever-glam, ever-effervescent Ruta Lee. I don't really care for the red (top) on red (background), but I do care for her.

Here we find Anne Francis around the time she was starring on TV as female spy Honey West.

I like these earrings that Miss Rosemary Clooney is modeling.

The ad copy on this page with The Lennon Sisters challenges us to name each girl with hints from the Initial pins that they are wearing. Amazingly enough, I got them right.

Something about her smile in this photo makes it almost hard to recognize Lesley Ann Warren, then starring in The Happiest Millionaire. Disney did a number of tie-ins with the jewelry manufacturer as you'll see.

I don't know where I was that I never realized Janet Blair was in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (which also featured Warren.) Then again, I don't believe I've seen this since I was in the 6th or 7th grade many years ago!

Always lovely Vera Miles has an understated look in her ad. The necklace is sorta fun, though I don't think I'd have paired it with gray.

We adore Jo Anne Worley and feel that her career ought to have been even bigger (and lasted longer) than it ultimately did.

Check the curl on Angel Tompkins' locks.

Look, it's young Sally Field, out of her nun's habit and with plenty of hair.

The wonderful Diane Baker (who at first glance seemed almost like a brunette Cybill Shepherd to me!) I have no recollection of her hair looking this way. It certainly didn't in the mentioned movie Krakatoa: East of Java.

Of course they had to roll back the camera for dancer Cyd Charisse's ad. Love the mod print dress.

Eileen Fulton reigned on daytime TV as one of its biggest stars during her time on As the World Turns. A startling number of little baby girls were named Lisa after her character (who was, in her day, quite the troublemaker!)

Dancer Juliet Prowse looks pretty here, though we don't get to see her legs. (We would, however, on her later pantyhose commercials for L'eggs.)

You know, I've just never quite warmed up to Miss Rhonda Fleming, who looks attractive, but stiff, here. I do like the colors that accent her hair, though.

I can remember seeing this distinctive owl necklace on SO many ladies in the mid-1970s. It's modeled here by Lynda Day George, then of Mission: Impossible.

Here George shows off a pretty ornate brooch.

And here she shows off her actor hubby, Christopher George. And we are ending with the mini-bonus of him showing off as well!

Christopher George posed nude for Playgirl magazine in 1974 (the same year as the Sarah Coventry catalog!)

I find it remarkable that Lynda was cool with his doing so. (He posed full-frontal, though I still do not publish such shots here. I like to keep the place at least remotely work-friendly.)

Uncropped versions of these pics are easily found in an online image search.

Though he worked on many projects, he may be best-known from his time on the WWII series The Rat Patrol (inset.) And now, my loves, I am off on a three-night spree to glittering Las Vegas. I hope I can report something fun about that when I get back.