But with a worrisome mother, it meant she spent seven years bedridden, homeschooled, and coddled into a state of perpetual vulnerability. Sagittarius. She struck up a friendship with Audrey Hepburn and appeared as a model in Funny Face, in which Fred Astaire played an Avedon-inspired fashion photographer. Though she was the face of both Christian Dior and Balenciaga throughout most of the 1950s, not to mention on the cover of every fashion magazine, the vulnerability of her childhood seeped into her personal life. When she was 20, her life changed: she was scouted on Lexington Avenue by a fashion editor and thrown into a photoshoot that afternoon. Dovima gave birth to a daughter named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan. She was an actress, known for Funny Face (1957), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Very full pink silk skirt with a chiffon overlay, full-length, bearing a "Paramount" label inscribed, "Dovima," worn by model Dovima for her role as Marion, the model of the moment whose popularity is usurped by the earthy Audrey Hepburn. She was married to Casper West Hollingsworth, Alan Murray and Jack Golden. At a time when most models would consider $25 per hour a top rate, she commanded $60, becoming known as the Dollar-a-Minute Girl. Not that she kept any of it: when her second husband divorced her (and, a few years later, told the cops she had kidnapped her own daughter and had her arrested), she was broke.As the Swinging ‘60s swung into fashion, Dovima knew her time in front of the camera had come to an end. A Dovima skirt from Funny Face.
When the marriage to Murray ended in divorce, causing her to become penniless, Dovima first tried acting then attempted working as an agent during the 1960s. Funny Face: A Woman Who Thinks (Marion / Dovima) March 25, 2013 It was about time I started photographing and posting the Funny Face dolls, who have been arriving home one after another in all their elegance and finesse. With Dovima while filming 'Funny Face', 1957. Dovima gave birth to a daughter named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan. now playing Funny Face (1957) (Movie Clip) She s A Thinker Having difficulty making their model (Dovima) look brainy, fashion editor Maggie (Kay Thompson) and photographer Dick (Fred Astaire) seize a Greenwich Village bookstore, finding co-star Audrey Hepburn as clerk Jo, early in director Stanley Donen s Funny Face, 1957. Only it really isn’t me.” She succumbed to liver cancer in 1990, the world of Paris haute couture far but not forgotten; a poster of Avedon’s “Dovima with Elephants“ remained on display in the pizza parlor’s back room.The Queens-born model Dovima became the template for high fashion in the 1950s, before her American Dream tale turned tragic.As if Dion wouldn’t stand out on her own while walking in Paris, she put on a a bright floral pantsuit just to be safe.Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox.
She was an actress, known for Funny Face (1957), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Designed by Edith Head. Personal Details Born. It was a haughty smile that was compared to the smirk of the It’s a testament to her talent in front of the camera that Dovima’s visage spelled unattainable glamour, even when her personal life was in the dumps.
She was married to Casper West Hollingsworth, Alan Murray and Jack Golden.
Allison's father was Dovima's second husband, Allan Murray. title details and video sharing options. Explore Dovima-2010's photos on Flickr. (1964) and Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963). She struck up a friendship with Audrey Hepburn and appeared as a model in By the 1980s, the woman who had single-handedly defined the notion of beauty in the middle of the 20th century was working as a hostess at the Two Guys pizza parlor in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Hers is a story of fashion fairy tale and tragic American Dream, filled with haute couture and melodrama.Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of a Polish-American policeman and his Irish-born wife. Dovima was born on December 11, 1927 in New York City, New York, USA as Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba. “Dovima with Elephants,“ originally published in the September 1955 issue of But, what of the woman outstretched amongst these wondrous creatures?