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TWIGGY
1949
Berühmte Schauspielerin, Model / Famous actress,
model
The one and only übermodel of the late 1960s
who made skinny an "inny" was born Leslie Hornby in Twickenham, Middlesex,
England on September 19, 1949, one of three daughters of William Norman
and Helen Hornby. By blending pop art with fashion, the doe-eyed, pouty-lipped
gamin with the angelic puss and boyish crop took the industry by storm
at age 17 defining the age of "flower power" almost singlehandedly. She
was the unassuming Cockney lass who "launched a thousand shapes" and forever
replaced the voluptuous image of what modeldom had once been all about.
She originally was nicknamed "Sticks" because of her reed-thin figure,
but then switched it to "Twigs" and, finally, "Twiggy." A model for a scant
four years, she had never even walked the runways by the time she exploded
onto the scene. Educated at the Kilburn High School for Girls, her look
and image was an instant globular sensation. She was even imitated by Mattel
when they issued a "Twiggy Barbie" in 1967 and by Milton Bradley who created
a board game out of her. Lunch boxes, false eye lashes, tights, sweaters,
tote bags and paper dolls -- all these bore her famous moniker. In her
prime she graced the covers of Vogue and Tatler, and even had her own American
publication "Her Mod, Mod Teen World." The "psychedelic '60s" would not
have been the same without her.
In 1970, Twiggy was able to parlay her incredible
success into a respectable career in film and TV and on the musical theater
stage. It was the iconoclastic director Ken Russell who instilled in her
the ambition to move away from modeling and study acting, voice and dance.
An extra in his movie The Devils (1971), Russell ushered her front-and-center
with the jazz-age musical The Boy Friend (1971), his homage to the Busby
Berkeley Hollywood musicals. Taking on the role originated on stage by
Julie Andrews, Twiggy was awarded a Golden Globe for her efforts.
Her second feature, the thriller W (1974) cast
her with future husband Michael Witney, who was nearly two decades her
senior. They married in 1977 and later appeared together in There Goes
the Bride (1980). She also cameoed in The Blues Brothers (1980) with Dan
Aykroyd and John Belushi. Following Witney's untimely death in 1983, she
appeared in The Doctor and the Devils (1985) and the comedy Club Paradise
(1986) with Robin Williams before meeting her second husband, actor Leigh
Lawson, while filming Madame Sousatzka (1988) in which she played a singer.
Though Twiggy has worked from time to time on
TV. She hosted a couple of self-titled shows in England and co-starred
in the very short-lived sitcom "Princesses" (1991) here in America, but
not too much else. The singing stage is a different story. She made her
West End debut as "Cinderella" in 1974 and played Eliza Doolittle in a
legit performance of "Pygmalion" in 1981. In 1983 she reunited with her
"Boy Friend" co-star Tommy Tune and together dazzled Broadway audiences
as a tapping twosome with "My One and Only," a warm, nostalgic revamping
of the Gershwin classic "Funny Face." The charming waif went on to appear
in a 1997 London revival of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," then played
star Gertrude Lawrence alongside Harry Groener's Coward in the song-and-sketch
musical "Noel and Gertie" (later retitled "If Love Were All"), which focused
on the close "blendship" between the two icons all to the accompaniment
of 20 Coward songs.
Back to her modeling ways, Twiggy came out of
retirement to be photographed by the likes of John Fwanel and Annie Liebovitz
in the 90s and has recently joined the professional elite of judges led
by Tyra Banks on the reality show "America's Next Top Model" (2003), her
warmer, more unassuming demeanor filling in for the aggressive, vitriolic
Janice Dickinson.
Filme:
The Boy Friend (71) W (74) Twiggy (75) Bonkers!
(79) The Blues Brothers (80) Pygmalion (81) Club Paradise (86) Sun Child
(88) Madame Sousatzka (88) The Diamond Trap (88) Istanbul (89) Body Bags
(93) Edge of Seventeen (98) Woundings (98)
Here is a rare original signed picture 3.5 x 5.5
(ca. Postkartenformat) Price in Euro 22.- (selten)
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