Over the decades, many women have claimed to be the "Torch Lady" featured in the studio logo.

Stars from different generations, they all had one common costar onscreen: Lady Liberty, also known as the "Torch Lady" featured in the Columbia Pictures logo.

THE story behind the iconic Columbia Pictures “torch lady” logo can be traced back to a graphic designer who posed in a photoshoot wearing bedsheets. In 1991, Times-Picayune reporter Kathy ...

Columbia Pictures' 'Torch Lady' has introduced us to films since 1924, but in 1991 New Orleans artist Michael Deas was commissioned by the film studio to update its iconic logo.

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Photographer Kathy Anderson revealed how she and her former colleague Jenny Joseph came together for a 1992 photoshoot that artist Michael Deas then turned into Columbia Pictures' logo ...

Jenny Joseph wasn’t a model. She wasn’t an actress. She had never posed professionally before or after. But, following one serendipitous shoot, the doe-eyed British woman became one of the most iconic ...

Ehsan Khoshbakht on Locarno’s Columbia Retrospective ‘The Lady With the Torch’: ‘This Film Will Never Play Again in My Lifetime’ ...

Joseph, as you can see, is instantly recognizable as Miss Liberty, the torch-wielding figure in the Columbia Pictures logo that flashes before each of the studio’s movies.