Dovima

Dovima ( born December 11, 1927 in New York, New York; † 3 May 1990 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; actually Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba ) was an American fashion model. In the 1950s, she was next to Lisa Fonssagrives, Sonny Harnett, Dorian Leigh, Suzy Parker and Jean Patchett of the best known and highest-earning female models.

Life

Childhood and discovery as a model

Dovima, Irish- Polish descent, was founded in 1927 (according to other sources 1926) in New York as Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba born and grew up in Jackson Heights, in Queens, New York on. The daughter of Peggy and Stanley Juba, a police officer in Manhattan, suffered at the age of ten years, rheumatic fever, whereupon it the next few years was cared for by her mother. Doe, as she was called by her family, began during her confinement to bed with the painting and agreed by phone with other ailing children. She invented at that time an imaginary friend called Dovima, a play on words from the two initials of their three first names, they should use it as a stage name later. Her first husband Jack Golden lived as a neighbor in the same house as them. Pale and clumsy as she was, she never considered herself a beautiful woman as she later reported.

1949, the employees of a candy store when leaving a Manhattan restaurants machine was approached by an employee of the fashion magazine Vogue, which inquired as to whether she had ever worked as a photo model. Then she was invited to test shots and just one day later photographed by the famous photographer Irving Penn. Dovima, as they called themselves from now on, closed while working with Penn always her mouth because she was missing a piece of a front tooth since childhood. But this very fact was the one who made ​​it seem as mysterious recordings and why her smile with the Mona Lisa was compared. After a year's work became a high fashion model Dovima with a fee of $ 30 per hour to the talented model agency Ford Later, should the credit of the U.S. American, who was celebrated as a symbol of over sophistication, even double. Dovima worked in the 1950s along with the relevant photographer and appeared five hundred times on the front pages of all the major fashion magazines. A close collaboration she joined with the photographer Richard Avedon, who in retrospect remembered her as one of the last great elegant, aristocratic beauties. With Avedon took in August 1955 Harper 's Bazaar her most famous photo, " Dovima with the Elephants ". The picture was taken in Paris Cirque d' hiver and shows the seemingly fragile Dovima between two circus elephants, which she wears a black robe with white sash of Dior, the first designed evening dress then-unknown assistant Yves Saint Laurent. Copies of the image are now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Conclusion of the modeling career

1957 celebrated the 1.73 m wide Dovima with the part of the underexposed photo in Stanley Donen model Marion Funny Face her debut as an actress. The film, 1958 nominated four times for an Oscar, loosely based on the life of Richard Avedon and tells the story of a successful fashion photographer (played by Fred Astaire ), which is on the search for a new type of woman in a young bookseller ( Audrey Hepburn ) infatuated. Almost five years later retired Dovima in 1962 with 35 years in the business model from the ground that she did not want to wait for the camera would be aimed cruel to her. While they later own modeling agency led, established himself at her London "young junior look" with Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy and Penelope Tree as its most prominent representative.

Dovima was married three times. By Jack Golden she divorced in the late 1950s. From 1957 she was married in second marriage with Allan Murray, to whom she confided to her husband as already previously managing their entire finances. The compound from which emerged their daughter Allison was marked by violence and broke in the 1960s, as Dovima moved to Los Angeles in order to establish itself as an actress. She lost at this time custody of her daughter to her ex- husband and a career in Hollywood failed when she appeared in television dramas such as the Kraft Suspense Theatres and the series The Man from UNCLE (both 1964) does not it past. From 1974, Dovima to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to be close to their parents, who had set themselves to rest. Here she earned her living by doing odd jobs such as sales of cosmetics and a job as a hostess at the local pizzeria The Two Guys, who also served as a mascot for a softball team. In 1983, she married for the third time, the bartender West Hollingsworth, who died of cancer in 1986. From this loss is not Dovima recovered. In 1990 she died of liver cancer at the age of 62 years.

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