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| (60sglamdatabase) Rosa Dolmai (Dolmaille) / Eve Eden | |
ROSA DOMAILLE
Real Name Rosa Delmar (?) If Anglo Portuguese ancestry is correct, neither Domaolle nor Delmar are typical Portuguese names
Modelling Aliases Eve Eden - the spellings Dolmai, Delmar are commonly found; in mid career (early 1960s) she dropped the name Rosa Domaille and continued modelling instead as Eve Eden [it looks as if she first used Eve Eden for film and TV work and then adopted it for glamour modelling also as she became better known in those fields]. She is called Claudia de Merode in a US ad for a glamour film
STATISTICAL DATA
Date of Birth 1938 (D)/1940 (Carnival 1957 Winter Special); late 1940 (Steve Sullivan reference book). Birthday perhaps 5 November, see unverified information below
Age at start of career 17 (D) (age given in Magazines dated 1957)
Age at finish 32 (poss)
Measurements 38-23-36 (MG) many minor variations on this)
Height 5'2 and a half (QT No3)
Eye Colour Brown
Hair Colour (natural) Brunette
Hair Colour (dyed) Blonde (from mid-1960s)
Wigs known to have been worn
Country/County/Town of Origin England, Somerset, Bath (MG) England, Somerset, Radstock (MG) (Radstock is only about 10 miles from Bath)
Town/County/Country moved to after retirement from industry South Africa?
Ethnicity European. (Anglo/Portugese ancestry) (D)
MODELING CAREER
Photographers posed for: Harrison Marks - Ed Alexander - Bob Baker (Valley Arts) - Bob Mansfield (Klix) - Eva Grant - Zoltan Glass - Roger Davies - Rosalinda - Russell Gay
Studios Known to have worked at: Kamera - Klix - Valley Arts - Thames Valley Photoghraphic Club - Town &#amp; Country Publications (Spick and Span) Croydon (GM)
Other Models Posed With Lorraine Burnett - Paula King - Fiona Callum - Marion Holmes
Duration of CareerFrom 1957 (D) To Early 1970s (D)
PUBLICATIONS FEATURED IN
Magazines
Amber (many issues) Art and Camera No 1
Bamboo 1
Bandit. Harrison Marks Reprints
Beau (Edition not known)
Beautiful Britons 23
Beautiful Britons 27 (Jan 1958)
Beautiful Britons Spring Extra 1958
Beautiful Britons. (Edition not known)
Camera Model Guide Vol 1 No 6
Carnival July 1958
Carnival Sept 1958
Carnival 1957 Winter Special
Carnival 1958 Summer Special
Carnival 1958 Autumn Special
Castanet
Cathy. Harrison Marks reprints
Cavalcade of Glamour
Connoisseurs Choice and Modelling Review (several issues)
Contour 3
Contour 1
Coral (many issues)
Electra (cover girl) [one-off Russell Gay mag]
Escapade (US mag, August 1965, as cover girl and with feature Eve Eden at Eden Roc and at least two other editions (cover girl in one of them))
Fan Fare. (Edition not known)
Feline Vol 1 no 3
Feline Vol 1 no 6
Fiesta Vol 3 No 5 May 1958 (with Fiona Calley)
Fiesta 1958 Autumn Special
Fiesta (Best of). As Eve Eden
Fling (No 15 - Oct 1959)
Folies de Paris et Hollywood No 146 (cover girl)
Folies de Paris et Hollywood No 156 (cover girl)
Foto 39
Foto 42
Foto 44
Funfare No.21 - Rosa Domaille in Snookered Adventures of a Glamour Girl (issue entirely devoted to Rosa)
Garter Parade No 8
Girly no 8
Helen. Harrison Marks Reprints
Hi-Life. (Edition not known)
Hush. (Edition not known)
Jade 2
Kamera 13 (inc cover and centrefold)
Kamera 17
Kamera 19
Kamera 30
Kamera 35
Kamera Special No 2
Kamera Special No 3
Klix 1
Knave. (Edition not known)
Ladies 17
Lovelies (several issues)
Lucy
Mans Adventure (US mag, issue unknown but cover girl)
Men Only (cover girl, October 1965)
Mens Digest Volume 11 no.4 (January 1966) [US magazine published by Novel Books, Chicago, Illinois]
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Modelstudier 68. Danish Publication. Harrison Marks Reprints
Modern Man (Edition not known but 1965)(US Mag)
Modern Man Quarterly No 13 (Winter 1958)
Naturama No 2 (cover girl - French Mag)
Parade - many issues inc 17/11/62 and 24/07/65)
Parade Escort - issue not known
Photo Studio 2
Picturegoer 1959 (Edition not known)
Pin Up No 26
Playboy. (Edition not known)
Practical Photographer 1960. (Practical Photography?) (Edition not known)
QT 3 (1957 - feature and centrefold as 'Rosa Delmai')
QT 4
QT 5
QT 8
QT, Best of
Sapphire
Sarah. Harrison Marks Reprints
Scene - US Magazine, issue unknown
Silky 24
Sixty Six 26
Sixty Six 27 (January 1958)
Sixty Six 30
Sleek. (Edition not known)
Solo 3
Span 42 with Fiona Callum
Span 44
Span Extra Summer 1958 with Fiona Callum
Spick 51 with Fiona Callum
Span 63
Span 104 - as Eve Eden
Spick Extra Spring 1958
Spick Extra Summer 1958
Spick Extra Winter 1958
Spick and Span Holiday Special No 2 1958
Spick and Span Extra No 7 - as Ece Eden 1958
Spick No 43 - June 1957
Spicy
Spotlight (US Mag December of unknown year)
Strip Lingerie 12
True Adventures - Feb 1965 (US Mag)
Velvet
X For Men (Edition not known)
ANY OTHER PUBLICATIONS
FILMS
Glamour Films
A Weekend With Lulu
Camping. With Fiona Callum. Mountain Film Unit P11
Canadian Doll (as Claudia de Merode) [film advertised in US magazines, serial number F-14, maker unknown]
Contest Girl
Follies no 7
Help
Naked Fury
Taking the Sun. Mountain Film Unit P4
Feature Films
Doctor At Large. 1958
On The Beat (Norman Wisdom)
The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964
The Beauty Jungle
When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth 1969
Young Willing and Eager
Television Appearances
Danger Man
Deadline Midnight
Airline Detective
OTHER INFORMATION
Under contract to Bill Watts 'leading London agent for glamour (Span 44) [Bill Watts was the agent for Sabrina and Shirley Ann Field])
Pre-modelling occupations Waitress, worker in a Shoe factory
Post-modelling occupations
Other occupations whilst modelling professionally Actress - an early mag appearance says she is receiving tuition daily as a dancer, paid for by her modelling fees
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
From Nostalgia Publications
Quote:
Rosa Domaille. It's fair to say that Rosa Delmai or Domaille as she became known professionally was one of a small handful of the modelling greats from the 1950's....In my mind she was certainly one of the prettiest with the seductive dark looks of a Loren or a Lollobrigida and the charm of the girl next door combined in a trim, athletic body and a pair of the shapeliest legs in the business. Rosa's natural beauty and curvaceous figure combined with that wonderfully continental sultry appeal set her aside from her glamour queen contemporaries Lorraine Burnett, Paula Page, Rochelle Lofting, Diana Hedges and Margaret Middleton who had the bosom but not the exotic appeal perhaps Rosa, modelling rivals Rosina Revell and Marie Deveraux possessed. Rosa would look more at home in a harem, or penthouse flat in Mayfair than in the domestic interiors of 1950's suburbia for which we shall always remember her.
She was born in Bath in 1938 and owed her exotic looks to Portuguese and English ancestry. Seeking a career as an actress Rosa was discovered by an unnamed photographer in the Thames Valley Photographic Club were she earned 75p an hour at the tender age of 17 and became a popular attraction for other camera club photographers who named her ' The West Country Lovely'.
Eventually Rosa came to work for Toco publications where her first domestic strip lingerie routines appeared, usually alongside budding models Fiona Callum and Marion Holmes. Rosa spent endless hours posing in fields, snagging her petticoats on barbed wire, tumbling off sledges in bloomers, garters and stockings or making pots of tea in frothy petticoats, push up bras and high heels before gaining work at professional studios run by Eva Grant, Zoltan Glass, Roger Davies, Russell Gay and of course George Harrison Marks. It was Pamela Green who interviewed and booked the models and recalled her first encounter with Rosa......."I remember no one could remember how to spell her name...(all the credits listed different spelling) but it was Delmai....Rosa came to us for work and really was quite a dreamer.....not the greatest of models. You would get her in a lovely pose and say fine and then she would just walk off.....I said no Rosa you have to hold the pose, don't move...she didn't realise you had to arrange every finger, her legs her arms. Some of the girls like Lorraine would suggest poses and were very enthusiastic in fact I teamed Rosa and Lorraine together for a very good shot.
Regardless of their differences Rosa became one of the top five nude models in the English glamour industry and George and Pamela chose Rosa as a subject for a picture shoot in the magazine 'Picturegoer' in an article lifting the lid on the nude film craze. From this Rosa gained bit parts in T.V. commercials and variety shows with Norman Wisdom and Benny Hill. Parts were to follow on Danger Man, Deadline Midnight, Airline Detective. As George Harrison Marks mentioned in his opening notes on Rosa in Solo No 3 "Particular faces stand out in my mind as being above the crowd....The morning Rosa called at my studios for the first time. that vital spark was there and I felt this was a girl who had more to offer than the usual statistics".
He was right, by 1958 at the age of 20 Rosa had changed her name to Eve Eden and was offered a lucrative contract as a film starlet which was to last into the early 1970's . Her first role was as a showgirl in Doctor At Large was in 1958. This was soon followed by decorative roles in British dramas and comedies, amongst her more prominent screen appearances are roles in Naked Fury, A Weekend With Lulu, Young Willing and Eager, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Contest Girl, The Beauty Jungle, Help, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, and dozens of others.
In fact Rosa's career as Eve Eden was even more successful and Eve continued to pose as a blonde until the late 1960's.
Rosa was a cover girl for Picturegoer in 1959 and was Practical Photographers first cover girl in 1960. Dozens of pictorials followed both as Eve and Rosa, including spreads in Playboy, Hi-Life, Modern Man, Fling, Beau, Knave, Jade, Jem and dozens of other international titles.
In the British pocket sized magazine Rosa gained more coverage than any other model on the scene and was fully booked from 1957 - 1959 as a model she appeared in Foto, Model, Spick, Span, QT, Hush, Strip Lingerie, Sleek, X For Men, Beautiful Britons, Fan Fare, and hundreds of others usually in white lingerie, corsets, panties and stockings.
For collectors there are a wealth of nude and striptease standard 8 films featuring Rosa and Eve......Perhaps the most beautiful model of England's Golden Age and certainly today one of the most highly sought after models. Magazine appearances are becoming increasingly collectable.
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UNVERIFIED INFORMATION
The 1957 Carnival Christmas Special issue states Rosa trained in ballet and later musical comedy from the ages of 5 to 15, intending to find a job on the stage, but between 15 and 17 first worked in a shoe factory and as a model for an artis in Bath. 'Last Month' (presumable November 1957?would make sense if she in fact turned 17 on 5th November),she persuaded her parents to let her go to London to try her luck getting jobs in theatres and cabaret clubs. In Spick 43 (June 1957), which must have been one of her earliest modelling appearances in pin-up magazines, Rosa is stated as still living in Radstock. (GM)
Danced topless at the Windmill Theatre
Appeared at the Raymond Revuebar as Eve Eden.
Married a wealthy South American and retired from modelling
We have heard that Rosa had a relationship with a prominent Conservative politician, later a minister in the Heath government.]
Steve Sullivans Glamour Girls of the Century claims she was only Eve Eden as a blonde, but this is untrue: most of her modelling as Eve Eden was as a brunette, and she seems to have gone blonde only in the final phase of her modelling career. Sullivan also claims the name change was made after a bondage layout of full frontal nudes caused a scandal further details of this clearly needed!
An unidentified US magazine says her birthday is Guy Fawkes Day (5th November)
Another source suggests that Rosa Domaille was her real name. The surname originates from Guernsey and the name also appears in various census' in Bristol, but birthplace Guernsey. Given the unusual nature of the name and the positive link between Somerset and the Channel Islands, this is not beyond the realms of possibility.
SOURCE CODES
(C) = Collector
(D) = Dealer
(GM) = Group Member
(H) = Historian
(MA) = Model Agent
(MG) = Magazine
(MO) = Model
(PH) = Photographer
(PU) = Publisher
AUTHORSHIP
This content was created by Richard Tearle for his (UK) 60sglamdatabase
website. His website no longer exists and the original files have been
lost, except for an incomplete snapshot captured by the Internet Archive's
Wayback Machine. Richard has graciously permitted me to republish this
information here. Richard also notes that Malcolm MacDonald deserves
credit for his contributions to the content.
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