Russ Warner famously refused to hand over or destroy his frontal nudes of Jack Lalanne when the fitness guru got his first TV contract in the 1950s. (To see some of those, click on the Jack Lalanne label in the column of topics ar right.) This magazine cover shot in the Hollywood Hills reminds me that I have enough such photos by Mr. Warner to do a complete series.
No doubt about it...he looks better stripped.
ReplyDeleteIt was said Warner supposedly blackmailed LaLanne with the nude photos and became LaLanne’s “business partner”, first as emcee at his Vegas shows and then as his tv manager and producer….:(
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard that one.
DeleteI had not heard of blackmail, I am sure it was more about artistic integrity than anything.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I think, too. Also there is the matter that Lalanne posed voluntarily and most likely got paid for it. If the usual practices were followed, they ware not his to take back.
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