Original 120mm transparency features Billie Deane, aka Gillian Duxbury, taken by Bob Guccione in 1972.Subject:
Aspiring actress Billie Deane, twenty, received widespread critical approval for her premiere appearance in Penthouse, and as a result has been chased for numerous up-and-coming stage and screen roles. Most appreciated by London Penthouse Club members, however, is her regular walk-on part as a cocktail Pet under her real name, Gillian Duxbury. Billie/Gillian, whose 39-25-37 is worth at least a thousand words of her favorite playwright, Shakespeare, has a secret ambition to play Portia's trial scene in The Merchant of Venice as a striptease. "I want to show that while men can acquit themselves with words, women can do the same thing with just their bodies. A woman always has a second line of defence."Photographer:
In 1965, Bob Guccione, a struggling artist with an entrepreneurial imagination, started a magazine called Penthouse. Due to his lack of resources, Guccione personally photographed most of the models for the magazine's early issues. He spent long hours, and sometimes, several days, to complete a photo shoot. Although he had no professional training, Guccione applied his knowledge of painting to his photography, establishing the diffused, soft focus look that would become one of the trademarks of the magazine's pictorials. These images offered more sexually explicit content than other gentlemans magazines of the era, establishing Penthouse as a well known name amongst its competitors.Featured Video:

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