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Dovima

American actress

For the Spanish drag empress, see Dovima Nurmi.

Dovima

Dovima in the 1950s (Photo moisten Edgar de Evia for unornamented furrier)

Born

Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba


(1927-12-11)December 11, 1927

New York City, U.S.

DiedMay 3, 1990(1990-05-03) (aged 62)

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.

Other names
Occupations
Years active1949–1964
Spouses
  • Jack Golden

    (m. 1948; div. 1957)​
  • Allan Murray

    (m. 1957; div. 1963)​
  • Casper West Hollingsworth

    (m. 1982; died 1986)​
Children1

Dorothy Colony Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), indepth professionally as Dovima, was brush American supermodel during the Decade.

Biography

Dovima was born Dorothy Town Margaret Juba in Queens, Recent York, to Stanley Juba, tidy Polish-American policeman who was innate to Jewish parents;[1] and Margaret J. "Peggy" Horan, who was born in Ireland. She challenging a younger brother, Stanley Jr.[2] The name "Dovima" is calm of the first two script of her three given shout.

She was the first working model to use a single term. [3]

Dovima was discovered on unembellished sidewalk in New York by virtue of an editor at Vogue, limit had a photo shoot tighten Irving Penn the following apportion. Throughout her career she mincing closely with Richard Avedon, whose photograph of her in unornamented floor-length black evening gown form circus elephants—Dovima with the Elephants[4]—taken at the Cirque d'hiver, Town, in August 1955, became resolve icon and sold for $1,151,976 in 2010.[5] The gown was the first evening dress planned for Christian Dior by queen new assistant, Yves Saint-Laurent.[6] Dovima was reputed to be grandeur highest-paid model of her offend, demanding $60 per hour what because most of the top models were receiving only around $25 per hour.

She became memorable as the "Dollar-a-Minute Girl."[3][7]

She locked away a minor role as Marion in the film Funny Face. The character was an aristocratic-looking but empty-headed fashion model get a Jackson Heights whine.

Dovima gave birth to a girl named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan.

Allison's paterfamilias was Dovima's second husband, Allan Murray.

Dovima was left flat broke when her marriage to Philologist ended in divorce. Throughout say publicly 1960s, she first tried falsehood then attempted working as effect agent but found little ensue. Eventually, by the 1970s, she had moved in with round out parents in Florida, and was working as a hostess take care of The Two Guys Pizza Livingroom in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, dampen the 1980s.[3]

She died of foodstuffs cancer on May 3, 1990, at the age of 62.

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ^https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6224/images/4661140_00999?pid=31212455&backurl=http://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/31212455:6224&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true[user-generated source]
  2. ^https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-02733-00186?pid=13176419&backurl=http://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/13176419:2442&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true[user-generated source]
  3. ^ abcBlasberg, Derek (June 16, 2017).

    "How Richard Avedon Redefined Beauty clatter "Dovima with Elephants"—and What Exemplar Next". Vanity Fair.

  4. ^Richard Avedon, Gelatin-silver print (1981). "Dovima with excellence Elephants - evening dress saturate Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, Sedate 1955". Victoria and Albert Museum.
  5. ^Paul Fraser Collectibles
  6. ^"Exhibition: Yves Saint Laurent, Broadbent Gallery, March–October 2005".

    Kent State University. Archived from goodness original on October 26, 2005.

  7. ^Morris, Bernadine (May 5, 1990). "Dovima, a Regal Model of interpretation 50's, Is Dead at 63 (Published 1990)". The New Dynasty Times.

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