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Bombshell (sex symbol)
The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" and originally used to describe popular female sex icons. In modern usage, bombshell refers to a very attractive woman.〔(Merriam-Webster Dictionary )〕〔(Oxford Dictionary )〕 The ''Online Etymology Dictionary'' by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942, and in the meaning of "shattering or devastating thing or event" since 1860.
==History==
The first woman to be known as a bombshell was Jean Harlow, who was nicknamed the ''blonde bombshell'' for her 1931 film ''Platinum Blonde''.〔''Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow'' by David Stenn, page 151, 162〕〔''The Guide to United States Popular Culture'', 2001, ISBN 0879728213, (p. 922 )〕〔Grant David McCracken."Marilyn Monroe, the Inventor of Blondeness", ''Culture And Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, And Brand Management'', page 93, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780253345660〕 Two years later she starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film ''Bombshell''.〔 One of the blurbs on posters was ''Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom.''〔Richard HAvers, Richard Evans, ''Marilyn'', 2010, ISBN 1849120269, p. 16. 〕
The epithet rose sharply in popularity after the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, and declined in popularity in late 1960s due to emerging ideological conflicts.〔
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.〔Katie King and Debra Walker King, ''Body Politics and the Fictional Double'', page 157, Indiana University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780253108326〕 Some of the film stars, largely of 1940s-1960s, referred to as bombshells include Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, Carroll Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Kim Novak, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, and Ursula Andress.〔〔Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin, '', page 344, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ISBN 9781444357592〕
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