Empey founded Perfumes of Araby, one of the first Middle-Eastern dance companies in the United States. 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. Middle-Eastern danceįrom 1969 to 1980 Empey's professional career was as a bellydancing instructor at the now defunct Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, California. 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. 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). The photo-shoot for the 1956 publication being shot by Russ Meyer. Under the name Marguerite Empey she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in May 1955 and in February 1956. As the decade progressed she modeled for many professional photographers, including Peter Gowland, Bunny Yeager and Keith Bernard. In the early 1950s she found employment as a chorus girl at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, whilst developing her professional modelling career. As a child she received ballet lessons from Russian ballerina Maria Bekefi. She received her formal education at the Hollywood High School. Due to the reproducible nature of this item, this photograph cannot be returned.Please PayPal payment within 48 hours of auctions close.Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., the daughter of Marguerite (née Andrus), a Hollywood actress and former 'Miss Long Beach' beauty contest winner, and Arthur Guy Empey. Ownership of the photograph does not imply that the owner has printing rights to the photo. These auctions are for the photographs themselves. If you have any serious concerns, please email me. They may have marring, a light fold, scuffs or dog-ears due to normal book and magazine production handling. All of them are vintage '50s, '60s original photographic prints, printed on real silver bromide single-weight glossy black and white photographic paper. May be stamped "Ed Lange" or "Erwin Lang" on the back. Nudist photographic collectors all over the world have praised my eBay offerings.Photo may have red or black grease-pencil crop marks, may have old adhesive (inert) on the back or may be backed with paper. (These are not scanned printer-generated copies). My auctions are known for their value and authenticity. You will not see any other authentic prints of any of these photos on the market. I have several years of successful experience selling these fine original vintage nudist photographs on eBay. On the back: a generic caption typewritten and taped on back with 6 small pieces of transparent tape various publication related stamps and a handwritten note that this picture was taken in the "backyard" of the urban center known as Elysium Institute in east Hollywood, CA - several years before Ed Lange opened up his Elysium Fields resort in Topanga Canyon, CA. The print quality, otherwise, is excellent. Crease on bottom left of print, black wax pen markings on borders, dark airbrush in the middle of the photo right above the pubic region (indicating that this was to be the edge of the bottom of the image in the magazine). This is a production print for one of Ed Lange's many nudist magazines and books (Sunbathing Annual). There have been other nudist photographers and producers but none as fresh and spontaneous as Ed Lange. This is a rare, one-of-a-kind production photographic print taken by Keith Bancroft for Ed Lange's groundbreaking nudist magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. Original Vintage Nudist: Joe Webber, Diane Webber's husband in shower (with another woman!), Ed Lange produced, photo by Keith Bancroft.
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