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Early in her career, actress Elinor Donahue actually dyed her dark brown hair blond and posed for what were then the near-obligatory cheesecake photos expected of every young starlet.

Just don’t tell Jim Anderson. We’re not sure which would upset him most – that his “Princess” posed in a bathing suit or that she dyed her hair!

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