Pin-up Name

[Fletch]

If your pin-up must be German, how about Gretchen Gesundheit? (Jean Arthur's psuedonym in A Foreign Affair)

 

[thebadmamajama]

"Ada Weiss"

(a play on Edelweiss, and if you pronounce the Weiss correctly, it sounds like "vice" which is, of course, perfect for a saucy pinup!)

Good luck with your search and let us know what you pick!

 

[Brooksie]

Instead of Ella Noir how about Elle Noir?

Brooksie

 

[carebear]

Toots Sweet?

Sammi Snood?

Roxy LaMuse? (LaMusique?)

 

[LaydiRaevin]

I don't know i'm still stumped, everything you guys suggested are beautiful names but i don't think they are me. My brother can't think of anything either. I think i might just use my first name ans my mothers maiden name.

Lesley Luis

 

[LadyDeWinter]

Lady Raevin

Two names just jumpted into my mind. A name of a 1920s German actress:

Henny Porten

And another name of an 1920s Austrian actress:

Fritzi Massary

 

[griffer]

Agnes Mooch...

Naw, how about...

Dolfi Putzkammer

'Dolfi' an endearment of Dolfine, or Adolfina, but also a term for Japaneses fantasy, ball jointed fashion dolls.

'Putzkammer' literally means a dressing-chamber, a room for dress and ornaments, but in Yiddish, 'Putz' is a slang for male genitalia and 'kammer' is a chamber or small room. In a coded way, the double entendre is pretty funny....

 

[TOTTIE]

filth!

 

[TOTTIE]

erudite filth, but filth nonetheless.

hmm, actually, what with the double entendre and the mention of Germans, has anyone suggested Lola as a pin-up name? It makes me think of that wonderful song - Marlene Dietrich sang it in 'The Blue Angel' in 1930

So: how about 'Naughty Lola'?

They call me naughty Lola
The wisest girl on earth
At home my pianola
It works for all it's worth
The boys all love my music I can't keep them away
So my little pianola keeps working night and day

 

[griffer]

dang it, i did it again. oops.

Putzkammer is a real name.... i swear...

I was thinking about Die Blaue Engel quite a bit...

Lola Engel...

Lola Gelli...

Gelli Raubal...

wait, scratch that...

 

[TOTTIE]

shh... don't mention the war...

 

[TOTTIE]

actually, to be fair, that was well before the war... But don't mention it anyway...

 

[LaydiRaevin]

Lola Viola. I think I got it.

 

[TOTTIE]

That's brilliant... and the Viola thing has that curvy feel, too...

 

[griffer]

Lola Viola. I think I got it.

Bravo!

Now I have to find a way to use Putzkammer, though...

 

[~landgirl~]

Lola Viola is an excellent name!

 

[Fletch]

Lola anything is excellent. I once had a hopeless mad crush on a woman who called herself Lola Rebop!

 

[GOK]

Until a couple of years ago, my nickname had been Lola Nicolina for...ever! It's taken a long while to shake it off.

 

[catsmeow]

What about "Sigi" or Mitzi? German names again! Lola is a nice touch also!

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Fletch I love those names! Can you come up with a surname to go with Tottie (for a wealthy young lady)?

Tottie Mont-D'or - stolen from Around the World with Auntie Mame - nouvea riche couple from Brooklyn who thought it had more cache than their real name - Goldberg.