About Rosa Domaille
Rosa Domaille was a British pin-up model who posted with other pin up models, such as Lorraine Burnett, Paula King, Fiona Callum, and Marion Holmes. Started her career at age 17. Also worked as a compere for stage shows.
Rosa was born as Rosa Annie Domaille in Norton Radstock in Somerset, the cider county. In her youth, she worked as a stitcher in a shoe factory but dreamed of being a fashion model. Her dream came – well, almost; she became a knickers and stocking model, one of the most iconic glamour pin-ups of her day.
ToCo must have looked back when in its prime and taken great pride in the fact that, according to the blurb in 66 No 30 at least, her first step into modelling was as a result of the recruiting campaign the company ran to entice undiscovered talent out of their country farms and city bedsits and into the studio. It stretches the imagination to breaking point to think that these rustic innocents didn’t realise they would be down to their knickers before the photographers had taken his lens cap off. Anyway, she sent in some snaps and, before you could say “sleaze”, she was on the pages of the June 1957 editions of both Spick and Beautiful Britons. Once established as a model and looking to go down the path of film and TV, she changed her name to Eve Eden.
A confusing model, she is difficult to categorise. Domaille did a very broad spectrum of modelling work ranging from nudist magazines (Health and Efficiency) to blatant pornography, though only solo – the sort of stuff sold in the ‘60s in sleazy Soho shops in small cellophane envelopes. She was one of the earlier ToCo models, appearing regularly in all the titles from the mid-‘50s to early ‘60s and very popular, especially so, perhaps, after she was signed up by Bill Watts (who first saw her in Spick), London’s leading glamour agent in early 1958. Watts also ‘looked after’ Sabrina and Shirley Ann Field. But, first and foremost, she was one of Harrison Marks’ most featured models, regularly appearing in his collection of publications such as QT, Kamera and Solo where she did much hairier stuff than in the ToCo pin-ups – actually much less hairy would be closer to the mark as she is shaven in nearly all that work. She also found moderate success in the film and TV world, even getting a part in the Beatles 1965 film Help!.
The confusion arises from the fact that, despite all the ‘legit’ work, there was a phase in her career when she was seen in many sequences that are much more pornographic (some of it surprisingly erotic despite its lack of subtlety), including a number of bondage shoots tied up in a cellar clad in stockings, knickers (often halfway down her thighs) and suspenders.
ToCo claims her hobbies were cycling, cooking and dancing. Photo editor Robin Brewster also said that Rosa shared a flat with another ToCo model – Fiona Callum, the blonde with whom she did duo shoots.
She married Claudio Marinelli in 1969, and has been living in Nevada in recent years.
Amber (many issues)
Art and Camera No 1
Bamboo 1
Bandit. (Harrison Marks Reprints)
Beau
Beautiful Britons 23
Beautiful Britons 27 (Jan 1958)
Beautiful Britons Spring Extra 1958
Beautiful Britons.
Camera Model Guide (Vol 1 No 6)
Carnival July 1958
Carnival Sept 1958
Carnival 1957 Winter Special
Carnival 1958 Summer Special
Carnival 1958 Autumn Special
Castanet
Cathy. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Cavalcade of Glamour
Connoisseu's Choice and Modelling Review (several issues)
Contour 3
Contour 1
Coral (many issues)
Electra (cover girl) [one-off Russell Gay mag]
Escapade (US mag, August 1965
Fan Fare.
Feline Vol 1 no 3
Feline Vol 1 no 6
Fiesta 1958 Autumn Special
Fiesta (Best of). As Eve Eden
Fling (digest) (#15, 1959)
Fling Vol 12 (March 1963)
Folies de Paris et Hollywood
Foto 39
Foto 42
Foto 44
Funfare No.21 (issue entirely devoted to Rosa)
Girly no.8
Helen. (Harrison Marks Reprints)
Hi-Life.
Hush.
Jade 2
Kamera 13 (inc cover and centrefold)
Kamera 17
Kamera 19
Kamera 30
Kamera 35
Kamera Special No 2
Kamera Special No 3
Klix 1
Knave.
Ladies 17
Lovelies (several issues)
Lucy
Man's Adventure (US mag, cover girl)
Men Only (cover girl, October 1965)
Men's Digest Volume 11 no.4 (January 1966)
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Modelstudier 68. Danish Publication. Harrison Marks Reprints
Modern Man (Edition not known but 1965)(US Mag)
Modern Man Quarterly No 13 (Winter 1958)
Naturama No 2 (cover girl - French Mag)
Parade (many issues inc 17/11/62 and 24/07/65)
Parade Escort
Photo Studio 2
Picturegoer 1959
Pin Up No 26
Playboy.
Practical Photographer 1960
QT 3 (1957, feature and centrefold as 'Rosa Delmai')
QT 4
QT 5
QT 8
QT, Best of
Sapphire
Sarah. (Harrison Marks Reprints)
Scene - US Magazine
Silky 24
Sixty Six 26
Sixty Six 27
Sixty Six 30
Sleek.
Solo 3
Span 42 with Fiona Callum
Span 44
Span Extra Summer 1958 (with Fiona Callum)
Spick 51 (with Fiona Callum)
Span 63
Span 104 (as Eve Eden)
Spick Extra Spring 1958
Spick Extra Summer 1958
Spick Extra Winter 1958
Spick and Span Holiday Special No 2 1958
Spick and Span Extra No 7 (as Eve Eden) 1958
Spick
Spicy
Spotlight
Strip Lingerie 12
True Adventures - Feb 1965 (US Mag)
Velvet
X For Men
