Rebel Randall (born Alaine Charlotte Dorothy Brandes, January 22, 1922
â€" July 22, 2010), was an American film actress and radio
personality. She appeared in approximately 50 films between 1940 and
1956.She was a popular G.I. pin-up girl during the 1940s and did
several layouts, including one for Esquire magazine. She did a stint
as "The Coca-Cola Girl" in advertisements and was a disc jockey for
the Armed Forces Radio Services and hosted a show called "Radio
Calling". In the 1950s, Rebel discovered that a New Orleans stripper
began using her name and she had to legally stop her.According to an
interview with Mike Barnum in the December 2009 issue of "Classic
Images", she got her initial start after winning a scholarship to the
Max Reinhardt Workshop in Hollywood where she appeared as Queen
Titania in a version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream. Once a John Robert
Powers model before going to Hollywood. Born and raised in Chicago,
and graduated from Foreman High School.A glamorous brunette, she is
remembered for her several dozen cinematic appearances from the early
1940s thru the mid 1950s. After making a name for herself doing radio
commercials, she moved to Hollywood where she made her 1940 silver
screen bow in "Turnabout". Working as a Paramount contract player, she
was seen in numerous features of the day, among them 1941's "The Lone
Rider in Ghost Town", "In Old Oklahoma" and "The Powers Girl" (both
1943), the 1945 "Booby Dupes", and 1945's "The Shadow Returns".
â€" July 22, 2010), was an American film actress and radio
personality. She appeared in approximately 50 films between 1940 and
1956.She was a popular G.I. pin-up girl during the 1940s and did
several layouts, including one for Esquire magazine. She did a stint
as "The Coca-Cola Girl" in advertisements and was a disc jockey for
the Armed Forces Radio Services and hosted a show called "Radio
Calling". In the 1950s, Rebel discovered that a New Orleans stripper
began using her name and she had to legally stop her.According to an
interview with Mike Barnum in the December 2009 issue of "Classic
Images", she got her initial start after winning a scholarship to the
Max Reinhardt Workshop in Hollywood where she appeared as Queen
Titania in a version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream. Once a John Robert
Powers model before going to Hollywood. Born and raised in Chicago,
and graduated from Foreman High School.A glamorous brunette, she is
remembered for her several dozen cinematic appearances from the early
1940s thru the mid 1950s. After making a name for herself doing radio
commercials, she moved to Hollywood where she made her 1940 silver
screen bow in "Turnabout". Working as a Paramount contract player, she
was seen in numerous features of the day, among them 1941's "The Lone
Rider in Ghost Town", "In Old Oklahoma" and "The Powers Girl" (both
1943), the 1945 "Booby Dupes", and 1945's "The Shadow Returns".
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