1950s sultry star Gloria Pall dead at 85

1950s sultry star Gloria Pall dead at 85

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Gloria Pall, known as "Eyeful Tower" or "Miss Cleavage" to her fans, died from heart failure at age 85 on Dec. 30. 

Gloria Pall, the host of a 1950s television show booted off the air because viewers thought it was too raunchy, has died at age 85.

Pall, called the “Eyeful Tower” or “Miss Cleavage” by fans, graced the silver screen in 1954 as a busty host for KABC-TV’s weekly romance movie series.

In the show, the sultry star played the character “Voluptua,” posing suggestively and making risqué remarks as she introduced each weekly flick.

“Welcome to my boudoir, I want you to feel that it's your special hideaway,” she would coo at the start of each show. “Relax, take off your shoes, loosen your tie.”

Pall didn’t stop there. She would seductively change clothes throughout the show and ended each episode wearing just a man’s pajama top.

“You put that on television and people went crazy,” R.H. Greene, a Los Angeles author who once developed a radio feature about “Voluptua,” told the Los Angeles Times.

“They were simultaneously titillated and appalled. Gloria was way too hot to handle.”

Indeed, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native was thought to be a bit too much for TV during the conservative era.

Protests from religious and parents groups, as well as poor advertising revenue, forced the station to cancel the controversial show just seven weeks after it debuted.

Despite her short stint on air, Greene credited Pall with making a major impact on mid-twentieth century television.

"She was quite openly in touch with her sexuality, and that was an incredibly dangerous thing to do," Greene said. "We don't have too many stories for that time that illustrate that, and Gloria's does."

Pall continued to make a name for herself once her time as “Voluptua” ended. She snagged spreads in Playboy and Life â€" and even made her way onto the big screen in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Crimson Kimono.”

Pall eventually said goodbye to Hollywood and went on to be a real estate agent.

"I decided that I ought to do something with my life besides going to parties and doing occasional modeling work," Pall told The Los Angeles Times back in 1962.

"I've finally got my name in lights on the Strip."

She died from heart failure on Dec. 30 at a hospital in Burbank, Calif.

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