

Preserved in a new clear glassine cover.IMPORTANT NOTE: The transparency itself appears much lighter when lighted from behind (which is why it's called "transparency").Since this is a reproducible original, this item is non-returnable (except for gross misrepresentation), please be certain that you are well-versed in photographic knowledge and appreciation before making a bid. Transparency condition is excellent, no scratches, no tears. Due to it’s age this transparency may have a magenta cast and any printing from this transparency will require color correction if you desire true-to-life color. The photographer is famous nudist photographer and publisher Ed Lange, circa 1960. An original one-of-a-kind 2 1/4 x 21/4 inch (6圆 cm) color transparency of super model Diane Webber of the 1950s and 60s. Originals are much sharper and more clear than the scans I can produce with my limited facilities.

Some very good shots here that I've hung onto as long as possible. A ZIV-TV Production.DIANE WEBBER - with her husband Joe Webber! "The Most Beautiful Couple in Naturism" ORIGINAL 6圆 cm TRANSPARENCY - NUDIST NATURIST - ED LANGE We're getting down to the end of all of my Diane Webber 2 1/4" transparencies. Today’s Technicolor lithograph features a recognizable figure for oncethe much adored Diane Webber, a California born model, dancer, and actress who was also known as Marguerite Empey and became one of the most important fixtures of the 1950s and 1960s nudist magazine scene. Bold Venture playing Latin dancer along with Kathy Kelly and Lisa Gaye in "Bold Venture" on channel 9, program #1003, August, 1959. Diane Webber brings a bit of warmth to winter in Baltimore.Peter Gunn playing "Midge" in episode: "Scuba" (episode # 1.21) 16 February 1959.Highway Patrol playing "Woman" in episode: "Coptor Cave-In" (episode # 18) February 1959.Markham playing "Valerie" in episode: "The Glass Diamond" (episode 1.8) June 1959.Alfred Hitchcock Presents playing "The Other Woman" in episode: "The Pearl Necklace" (episode # 6.29).Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea playing "Mermaid" in episode: "The Mermaid" (episode # 3.19) 29 January 1967."Stanley Siegel Show" Herself discussing belly dancing 1981.She married Joseph Webber in 1955 (the marriage was divorced in 1986), from which came a son named John (born 1956).Įmpey died on August 19, 2008, in Los Angeles in her 76th year from complications following surgery for cancer. Her iconic status among the Playboy models is referenced in Gay Talese's non-fiction book Thy Neighbor's Wife. In her final years she was a librarian and archivist for a law firm in Santa Monica. For several years Empey led and co-ordinated these outdoor shows with up to forty performers taking part. Empey's dancing shows were sensual but they didn't pander to a male audience, women and children often attending the performances. Empey founded Perfumes of Araby, one of the first Middle-Eastern dance companies in the United States.
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As the decade progressed she modeled for many professional photographers, including Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager. She occasionally performed this dance accompanied by some of her better students to the accompaniment of Middle-Eastern music in public places in and around Los Angeles. In the early 1950's she found employment as a chorus girl at Bimbos 365 Club in San Francisco, while developing a professional modeling career.

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In 1965 she traveled to Sioux City to give evidence at the request of a United States District Attorney in a court-room trial involving the sending of allegedly obscene nudist magazines into the State of Iowa, but instead of proving the prosecution's case, in the witness box she made a spirited defense of the principles of the lifestyle.įrom 1969 to 1980 Empey's professional career was as a bellydancing instructor at the now defunct Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, California. Japanese release of Seiji Hiraoka & His Quartet album Bedtime Music. She also appeared on the cover-art of several pop-music vinyl record albums, including Les Baxter's Jewels of the Sea, Sea of Dreams by Nelson Riddle, Marty Paich's Jazz For Relaxation, Chile con Cugie by Xavier Cugat, the Luxuriously Slow Moods of The Cesana Strings album "Sheer Ecstasy", and the R.C.A. In the 1960s as a part of the counter-culture sweeping the United States she became involved with the Nudist movement, and with her husband appeared in numerous nudist magazines advocating the benefits of the lifestyle, such as Naked & Together: The Wonderful Webbers by June Lange (1967).
