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DRAMA QUEEN

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Jane Seymour has always presented the thinking man with a rosy-cheeked dilemma. You see, there is something eternally virginal, ethereally pure, perpetually prim about the actress. So what the hell is she doing in your filthy little spank-bank?

Relax, you’re not alone in thinking you had a swelling Dr. Quinn could attend to.

Behind the hauteur, there’s always been hotness. Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg — a name more akin to minor royalty than Bond-girl-to-be — in 1951, the 5’4” actress originally had her heart set on becoming a dancer. That was until. She was cast as Solitaire, a psychic tarot reader with a talent for both divining the future and low-cut gossamer tops with which it was impossible to wear a bra.

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