That’s Debbie Reynolds in the 1955 Lincoln Futura show car. One of the shots actually made it to the cover of LIFE in March 1959 after the movie It started with a Kiss had just gone in premiere. Originally the Continental Mk2 based show car had been pearlescent white, but was resprayed in red for the movie as the white did not photograph very well. The car scenes were shot in Spain and these LIFE photographs were taken there, too.
And it wasn’t the car’s only appearance on the silver screen. The Futura became really famous after the concept car was sold to kar kustomizer George Barris some years later. Barris took it over from the Ford Motor Company for a dollar (the original price to build it had supposedly been $250,000). This “as the car was never titled and was therefore uninsurable.” Barris parked it behind his workshop and only took it out when he was asked to design a car for a new television series in 1966: Batman.
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