That moment when Joan Caulfield wins the main role in Petty Girl outrunning 260 other contestants

Beatrice Joan Caulfield was one of the most beautiful blondes at Hollywood. This New Jersey, long-legged, round-hipped, broad-shouldered and always smiling beauty first appeared in beer advertisings, followed by appearences in the Esquire magazine, after she was discovered by the great pin-up artist George Petty, George Brown Petty IV - on his full name.

In 1950 she entered a competition alongside 260 other beautiful girls to get the main role in the Technicolor musical romantic comedy "The Petty Girl", produced by Columbia Pictures.

Her measurements, talent and a gorgeous, sensual photo on one of the californian beaches played a definitive role in the judges decision.