by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.)
Hit Parader, February 1945 issue
Photograph: Monogram Pictures (publicity)
Art Directors: Lee Greef, Tony Wilson
Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design
Just an aside on fleeting celebrity, the cover’s alluring starlet, Acquanatta (or Aquanetta), likely sang one of the many hit songs featured in this issue, but it’s beyond me as the songs are credited to their writers and “you” would know who the singer was—that is, if you were a radio listener on the homefront. Tagged with the moniker “The Venezuelan Volcano” (for her exotic good looks, natch) Burnu Aquanetta (1921-2004) was apparently an orphaned Arapaho from Ozone, Wyoming. Things are never quite as they seem in Hollywood, eh? The late-1980s proto-Riot Grrrl rock band, The Acquanettas, adapted their name from hers.
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