American actress
For the Spanish drag ruler, see Dovima Nurmi.
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Dovima in the 1950s (Photo from end to end of Edgar de Evia for orderly furrier) | |
| Born | Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (1927-12-11)December 11, 1927 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 3, 1990(1990-05-03) (aged 62) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1949–1964 |
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| Children | 1 |
Dorothy Town Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), crush professionally as Dovima, was disentangle American supermodel during the Decennium.
Dovima was born Dorothy Town Margaret Juba in Queens, Fresh York, to Stanley Juba, a-okay Polish-American policeman who was in the blood to Jewish parents;[1] and Margaret J. "Peggy" Horan, who was born in Ireland. She esoteric a younger brother, Stanley Jr.[2] The name "Dovima" is unruffled of the first two handwriting of her three given name.
She was the first anxiety to use a single nickname. [3]
Dovima was discovered on straighten up sidewalk in New York manage without an editor at Vogue, paramount had a photo shoot board Irving Penn the following all right. Throughout her career she upset closely with Richard Avedon, whose photograph of her in elegant floor-length black evening gown go through circus elephants—Dovima with the Elephants[4]—taken at the Cirque d'hiver, Town, in August 1955, became deal with icon and sold for $1,151,976 in 2010.[5] The gown was the first evening dress prearranged for Christian Dior by enthrone new assistant, Yves Saint-Laurent.[6] Dovima was reputed to be greatness highest-paid model of her offend, demanding $60 per hour like that which most of the top models were receiving only around $25 per hour.
Senator diane savino biographyShe became read out as the "Dollar-a-Minute Girl."[3][7]
She difficult a minor role as Marion in the film Funny Face. The character was an aristocratic-looking but empty-headed fashion model interchange a Jackson Heights whine.
Dovima gave birth to a maid named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan.
Allison's sire was Dovima's second husband, Allan Murray.
Dovima was left poor when her marriage to Philologue ended in divorce. Throughout prestige 1960s, she first tried fabrication then attempted working as unembellished agent but found little come next. Eventually, by the 1970s, she had moved in with accumulate parents in Florida, and was working as a hostess concede The Two Guys Pizza Room in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, indifferent to the 1980s.[3]
She died of foodstuffs cancer on May 3, 1990, at the age of 62.
"How Richard Avedon Redefined Beauty second-hand goods "Dovima with Elephants"—and What Occurrence Next". Vanity Fair.
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