Other names Doe Years active 1949–1964 Occupation model, actress Children Alison Murray | Name Dorothy Horan Movies Funny Face Role Model | |
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Full Name Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba Born December 11, 1927 ( 1927-12-11 ) New York City, New York, USA Spouse Casper West Hollingsworth (m. 1983–1986) Similar People Suzy Parker, Stanley Donen, Roger Edens | ||
JEAN PATCHETT "THE BIG THREE" DOVIMA SUZY PARKER JEAN PATCHETT FASHION ICONS
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), later known as Dorothy Horan, and best known as Dovima, was an American model during the 1950s.
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- JEAN PATCHETT THE BIG THREE DOVIMA SUZY PARKER JEAN PATCHETT FASHION ICONS
- History of models from 1940 1960 american beauty hyper stylized fashion featuring models dovima a
- Biography
- Filmography
- References
History of models from 1940 1960 american beauty hyper stylized fashion featuring models dovima a
Biography
Born in Queens, New York, to a Polish-American policeman and an Irish-born mother, she was the first model to use a single name. The name Dovima is composed of the first two letters of her three given names.
Dovima was discovered on a sidewalk in New York by an editor at Vogue, and had a photo shoot with Irving Penn the following day. She worked closely with Richard Avedon, whose photograph of her in a floor-length black evening gown with circus elephants—Dovima with the Elephants—taken at the Cirque d'hiver, Paris, in August 1955, has become an icon and sold for $1,151,976 in 2010. The gown was the first evening dress designed for Christian Dior by his new assistant, Yves Saint-Laurent. Dovima was reputed to be the highest-paid model of her time; she commanded $60 per hour when most of the top models were receiving anything up to $25 per hour. She became known as the Dollar-a-Minute Girl.
She had a minor role as an aristocratic-looking, but empty-headed, fashion model with a Jackson Heights whine: Marion in Funny Face (Paramount, 1957).
Dovima gave birth to a daughter named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan. Allison's father was Dovima's second husband, Allan Murray.
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. Eventually, by the 1970s, she found herself moving in with her parents who had relocated to Florida, and was working as a hostess in The Two Guys Pizza Parlor in Ft Lauderdale, Florida by the 1980s.
She died of liver cancer on May 3, 1990 at the age of 62.