Showing posts with label Dorothea McGowan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorothea McGowan. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Qui ĂȘtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?



Starring Dorothea McGowan. Directed by William Klein.

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FROM TIME, DECEMBER 22, 1961: DOROTHEA MCGOWAN is the exception in the new crop [of international models]: she speaks only English and was bom in Brooklyn. Her pre-modeling life took her as far from home as Staten Island, where she finished her freshman year at Notre Dame College before taking a summer job modeling $2.98 house dresses. A few months later, her first photographic try at a cover made Vogue; this year she set some kind of a record by appearing on four Vogue covers in a row (nobody but her mother or agent could have told that it was the same girl). Twenty-year-old Dorothea ("My middle initial is E, and Dorothy sounded so ordinary") makes $60 an hour, has her own apartment in New York, studies French at Manhattan's French Institute twice a week ("so that when my dream of living in Paris comes true, I'll be ready for it"). In the relentless search of fashion editors for bizarre backdrops, Dorothea has been sent, all expenses paid, to be photographed in front of the great architectural monuments of Europe, among Middle East bazaars and under Caribbean palms, is absolutely "infatuated with the idea of being paid to travel."