Real Name
Modelling Aliases Sally Hayden (mainly in US publications)
STATISTICAL DATA
Date of Birth ?/?/1938
Age at start of career 16
Age at finish 27 (?)
Measurements 41-25-36 (early mag); 42-24-36 (c.1960); 38-24-37 (US mag, mid-60s, where her bust is noticeably smaller)
Height 5’7″
Eye Colour Brown
Hair Colour (natural) Blonde
Hair Colour (dyed)Brunette
Wigs are known to have been worn
Country/County/Town of Origin There are conflicting accounts that Lorraine was born either in England / Manchester, or USA / (possibly Pittsburg).
MODELLING CAREER
Photographers posed for Russell Gay – Harrison Marks – Roger Davis – Rosalinda – Eva Grant
Studios Known to have worked at Russell Gay studios – Kamera Studios – Town & Country Publications, Croydon
Other Models Posed With Anne Austin, Monique Devereux, Rosa Domaille, Della Fox, Pamela Green, Jackie Parker, Vicky Kennedy (Margaret Nolan)
Duration of Career
From 1955(?)
To mid-1960s
PUBLICATIONS FEATURED IN
Magazines
Amber (many issues, including cover of No.16)
Beauty of the Month No.2 – Lovely Loraine
Black Garter – US (issue unknown)
Bloom
Bosomy Beauties No 15
Bosomy Beauties No 17 – issue devoted to ‘Lorrainne Burnett, Britain’s Bustiest Beauty’
Carnival March 1958 (cover & centrefold), January 1959 (cover and centrefold)
Carnival Summer Special [1958]
Connoisseur’s Choice and Modelling Review (various issues)
Coral (many issues)
Fiesta, December 1957 (11 pages of pics including centrefold)
Fiesta Vol 3 Issue 5 May 1958
Fling (US magazine, three or four issues up to 1963)
Fling Festival No.2
Folies de Paris et Hollywood – many issues, including No.131 (covergirl), No.184 (covergirl), No 240 (cover girl) No.316
Folies de Paris et Hollywood Selection
Frolic Feb 1959 (US)
Garter Parade No 4
Gem – June, year unknown (US)
Kamera – many issues, including notably No.15 (many pics and centrefold together with Rosa Domaille), No.39
Kamera Glamour Guide No.1 (1967?)
Kamera on Location (hardback book, 1957)
Kingsize – col2 no 3 (US – early 1970s)
Lovelies (various issues)
Model (many issues, including No.20, cover & centrefold in No.22, ditto for No.31)
Monsieur No.10
QT (many issues, including cover, feature and centrefold in Nos.13, 41 and 52)
Panama Theatre Club Magazine No.1 (cover and feature, with some shots of one of her dance routines)
Photo Studio No.22 (Stanley Books, London N2)
Revue Studio (Copenhagen)
Rosalinda’s Album (1958; book of studies of Lorraine)
Satan’s Scrapbook – Parliament Productions (US – issue unknown, poss early 70’s)
Silk Seams Vol 1 No 1 (cover girl)
Six No.3
Solo No.2
Spick n’ Span – numerous issues, including Spick No.110
Sprite No.6
Tic-Toc vol 1 No1 (US – date unknown)
Xtra
FILMS
Lorraine is said to have made over 50 glamour ‘shorts’. Those titles currently known are:
Exhibition (Kamera Films No.9)
Showtime (Kamera Films No.12)
Lorraine in the Loveseat (Venus Films?)
Lorraine Limbers Up (Venus Films No 40)
Getting Ready (details unknown)
ANY OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Visart photo sets
Roger Davis photo sets
OTHER INFORMATION
Pre-modelling occupations Dancer in pantomime and revue
Post-modelling occupations said to have continued as a stripper until the early 1970s
Other occupations whilst modelling professionally are cabaret dancer/stripper
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
One of the truly great glamour models – a defining face and figure of her era – Lorraine was exceptionally prolific and appeared in countless publications from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. In addition to her sumptuous proportions and baby-faced beauty, her slightly ‘buck-toothed’ look seemed only to add to her charm. Though some magazines give her place of birth as Manchester, there are persistent rumours that she was American-born (or, alternatively, spent part of her childhood in the USA). One seemingly authoritative profile in an early Spick n’ Span (issue number unknown) asserts that she was born in ‘Cosaopolis’. There seems to be no such place, but the name may be a misprint for ‘Coraopolis’, a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA, and it appears too obscure to be an invention. The same source relates that Lorraine came to the UK at the age of eight, already determined to become a dancer; she started while under-age in pantomime with David Kaye, and, still underage, appeared in a Paul Raymond revue called ‘Night Life USA’. This seems to have led naturally to what seems to have been a hugely successful dual career as a stripper and glamour model. In a brief reminiscence of Lorraine published in Fiesta magazine in the mid-1980s, Roger Davis recalled that she was especially popular in the US, but he shed no light on her origins. Davis also said she was ‘no clothes horse’, and when he first met her, he thought she was nothing special, but once out of her clothes, she was a photographer’s paradise with an innate ability to pose.
He continues:
“Lorraine did a cabaret act, at various places in London. She could do the famous trick with the tassles on nipple caps, not only making the tassles rotate with the movement of her breasts, but making them rotate in opposite directions to each other. Like Jackie Parker, appearing then in clubs, Lorraine must have been responsible for a large part of the raincoat sales in London.”
Davis characterized Lorraine as “a very quiet girl, rather withdrawn. An unexpected characteristic in a girl who could, and did, give an energetic and uninhibited performance on stage.
Hard to fathom, but a joy to ‘shoot’ “. One club at which Lorraine was a star act in the late 1950s was the Panama Theatre Club, 42 Great Windmill Street, London W1.
UNVERIFIED INFORMATION
