In 1940 LIFE magazine had a photographic essay about a working girl in a big city based-on the “White Collar Girl” of the Christopher Morley's best-selling novel Kitty Foyle which was adapted into a film starring Ginger Rogers. The photographs were taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt featuring Carol Lorell, a Ginger Rogers look-alike whose life happened to mirror Kitty Foyle's: “Like Kitty, she came from Philadelphia, ran away from home, first lived in a lonely female hotel.” Lorell's…
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