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MORAN Earl
Earl Steffa Moran.
Date of birth : December 1893, Belle Plaine, Iowa.
Date of death : January 17, 1984, Santa Monica, California.
Profession
illustrator (
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1917 : 113 West 76th Street, New York.
Story
He married Louise Scott (March 10, 1895, Iowa-February 19, 1981, California) on December 12, 1916,
in Tennessee (
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). They had a daughter Mary Jeannette (born on October 23, 1918, Iowa).
With Mary Elizabeth Polokow (born in 1901 in Philadelphia), they had a daughter Elise Sandra (born on Seètember 3rd, 1928, Illinois).
On June 21, 1933 he married Matilda Korman (born in Russia in 1907; immigrated on September 30, 1913
), in Illinois. They had a daughter Sonia (March 12, 1936, Minnesota-August 5, 2005, California)
He studied drawing at the Chicago Art Institute and at the Art Students' League in New York City, at the end of the 20's, beginning of the 30's.
He became famous with his pin-up and glamorous artists drawings (with Vargas and Petty, other illustrators).
He often took pictures of his models, which then were the basis of
his illustrations, which were reproduced on calendars and in joung
women magazines as Flirt, Wink and Giggles.
She needed money and he was one the biggest lovely girls draftsman in the USA.
Between 1946 and 1949, he paid her 10$ an hour to take pictures of her, often not much dressed
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He used those snapshots to make charcoal and chalk drawings, which some of them were used, among others, for the famous Brown and Bigelow calendar.
Work contract, November 16, 1948 
Publicity 
Pictures
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White baby-doll 
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Black baby-doll, mirror 
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Black baby-doll 
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Basket 
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Bath towel 
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Striped bath towel 
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Black laces bikini 
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Black bikini 
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White bikini
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Striped bikini 
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White satin bikini
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Dress 
White dress 
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Dress "Love Happy" 
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Frou-frou 
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Hat 
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Advert for Dolley Madison wine, 1947 
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Navy 
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Phone
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"Toreador" 
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