Bombshell (sex symbol) of the blurbs on posters was "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom." Hollywood soon took up the blonde bombshell, and then, during the late 1940s through the early 1960s, brunette, exotic, and ethnic versions (e.g., Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge and Sophia Loren) were also cultivated as complements to, or as satellites of, the blonde bombshell. Some of the movie stars, largely of the 1940s–1960s, referred to as bombshells include Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth
Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931) in the summer of 1953. Although he turned out for Salisbury in 1956, Thomas was unable to continue his professional career. He later represented Wiltshire at water polo. Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931) Edwin Henry Charles "Eddie" Thomas (born 9 November 1931) is an English retired footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Southampton in the early 1950s. Thomas was born in Swindon, Wiltshire where he became an apprentice engineer with British Rail at the Swindon Works. Whilst playing for the works team, he caught the eye of a scout from Southampton of the Football League Second Division, joining them