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Published with this photo in LIFE Magazine 1944
‘THE SHAPE’
"Sirs: Frances Vorne has a soldier friend who came home from overseas a few days ago with the present of the remnants of a German parachute Frances, who likes to swim more than anything else found that there was just enough cloth left from it to make this abbreviated bathing suit. Born in New York City Frances is strictly a home girl, can speak and read Russian and Ukrainian fluently. She is a high school graduate, has been thinking seriously about going to college some day, but has never quite got around to it. Although she has lived in New York all of her 19 years she has never been in a night club. Her friends call her ‘the shape.’" MICHAEL LEVELLE, New York, N.Y.

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See Through Glass Swimsuits Newspaper Scan from the Miami News 1945, click to enlarge and read this odd article about novile glass swimsuits, Frances Vorne is mentined.

See Through Glass Swimsuits Newspaper Scan from the Miami News 1945, click to enlarge and read this odd article about novile glass swimsuits, Frances Vorne is mentined.

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YANK U.S. Army Magazine young Frances Vorne hot vintage pin up feature photograph: post World War Two popular glamorous pin up feature photo from YANK U.S. Army Magazine pinup feature page; click to enlarge and download a larger public domain copyright free WWII vintage pinup girl beautiful young Frances Vorne in YANK U.S. Army Magazine.

Click for a larger photo Frances Vorne in YANK magazine on 23 Feb 1945

Frances Vorne 1940's vintage pinup girl introduction:

From Time Magazine, Monday, Jan. 08, 1945 "Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself The Shape, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy."

Have You Seen Me?

Where did this beauty go; what did she do; it’s an unsolved post WWII mystery?

Stage Name: Frances Vorne "The Shape"
Birth Name: Frances Vorne
Occupation: Bathing Suit Model /Pinup Model
Years Active: 1944-1949 ?
Notable Works: The Highlight of her career seems to be Pin-Up Girl of the Year 1945 chosen by the Associated Press. He only film work seems to be a Movie NewsReels Swimsuit Revue which also featured Maria Montes and other beautiful young popular girls. Movie NewsReels were shown along with feature films and cartoons at theaters this one was also sold in 8 or 16mm via mail-order advertising from the back of Popular Science and other magazines. Frances Vorne was marketed as the “Modern Venus” and Star of “Swim Suit Revue”. Here last known work is the POLICE GAZETTE MAGAZINE cover June, 1947 (see the pin-up gallery below).
Date/Place Birth: unknown 1920/1926 possibly May, 30 1920; LIFE magazine atricle gave her place of birth as New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date/Death/Cause: unknown possibly 1990 in the Caribbean
Spouse(s) & Children: Frances Vorne September 19, 1946, the Schenectady Gazette reports in “The Voice of Broadway” gossip column that “Frances Vorne, the pin-up girl known as ‘The Shape’ is getting back into circulation via a divorce….”.
Short Biography: I could find out little about this girl, it’s almost as if she came out of nowhere into the Bathing Beauty Pin Up Girl limelight in 1944 or 45 and had totally disappeared into the post World War Two confusion by 1946. If you know anything that is not on this page please contact me, the world would like to know what happened to this post war bathing beauty, maybe Broadway ate her up?

Ad from the back of Popular Science Magazine 1946, click to enlarge and read advertisement for a home movie version of Frances Vorne's Movie Newsreel Swim Suit Revue staring the modern Venus, Frances Vorne.

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Frances Vorne bathing beauty photo gallery, various photos and clippings of Frances Vorne

Hot Young Frances Vorne with the newly invented Florescent Light Bulb	“The Shape” Frances Vorne still looking great 1949!
Frances Vorne's playsuit from a captured enemy German parachute	Frances Vorne from India-Burma Theater Roundup
Frances Vorne film box cover	Hot Young Bathing Suit Model “The Shape” Frances Vorne on the cover of National Police Gazette June 1947 (LEFT)