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Betty Brosmer’s first cover was the July/August 1950 issue of Gala, a men’s magazine full of almost-but-not-naked women.
Additionally, Betty Brosmer did fashion and commercial shoots with other photographers. And her image appeared on the covers of diverse publications, including hardboiled pulps Crime Detective and Police Detective, photography magazines Art and Photography and Camera Art, and the British edition of the popular movie magazine Photoplay. For Chesterfield cigarettes, she smiled in magazine ads and on billboards; and, in a live TV commercial, she smoked for the only time, failing to mask her disgust. Around the world for years, life-sized cardboard cutouts of Betty Brosmer stood vigil in stores, promoting cameras and shoes and air fresheners. Her photos or paintings of her image also adorned sleazy “adult” paperbacks with titles like Lust Lodge, Naked Party, The Teaser, and Bed Crazy. Again and again, and well into the 1960s, her image was sold or appropriated.
Betty is an American former bodybuilder and physical fitness expert. During the 1950s, she was a popular commercial model and pin-up girl.
She won numerous New York area beauty contests in the early 1950s, most famously “Miss Television”.
Playboy magazine pursued Brosmer for an exclusive pictorial, and a photo shoot was set up in Beverly Hills. The resulting picture set was rejected, however, after Brosmer declined to do any nude posing: “I wore sort of a half-bra or low demi-bra with nothing showing … and that’s what I thought they wanted.” Playboy threatened a lawsuit over the alleged breach of contract, but ultimately relinquished the case. The photos were eventually sold to Escapade magazine.
Betty Brosmer (Weider) Photos (Uploaded By Our Users)
Betty Brosmer never did nude photos. The one posted on this page is Margaret Nolan.

















