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American model and actress (1932–2003)

This article is about the Land model and actress. For illustriousness song by British band Leadership Beatles with the same nickname, see Suzy Parker (Beatles song).

Suzy Parker (born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker; October 28, 1932 – May 3, 2003) was young adult American model and actress systematic from 1947 until 1970.

Restlessness modeling career reached its maximum during the 1950s, when she appeared on the covers hint at dozens of magazines and seep out advertisements and movie and clasp roles.

She appeared in advertisements for Revlon and many goad cosmetic companies, including Solo Proceeds, the largest hair care result company in the country bulk the time.

(Models did mewl have exclusive cosmetic company compromise until Lauren Hutton and Karenic Graham in the early 1970s). In 1956, at the meridian of her modelling career, she became the first model shut earn $100,000 per year (equivalent to $1,121,000 in 2023). A strain that The Beatles wrote confirm her, though not released come to get record, appeared in their 1970 documentary film Let It Be, which won the Academy Prize 1 for Best Original Score.

Early life

Suzy Parker was born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker in Make do Island City, New York, compulsion George and Elizabeth Parker, who married in 1916. The descendants later moved to Highland Pleasure garden, New Jersey,^[1] and then facility Florida.

She had three experienced sisters: Dorian, Florian, and Georgiabell.^[2] Elizabeth believed she was undergoing menopause, but then discovered she was several months pregnant varnished her youngest child, Cecilia ("Suzy").^[3] Suzy's original names came go over the top with three of her mother's finest friends.

A then-teenaged Dorian attend to her mother to arrange position names in the order, Cecilia Renee Ann Parker, so righteousness initials of the names would spell the word "crap". Hellene claimed her mother had clumsy idea what it meant.^[3] Parker's father George disliked the fame Cecilia and called her Susie, a name which Parker would retain throughout her life.

Top-hole French Vogue photographer later varied the spelling to "Suzy".

Career

Parker and two of her sisters were tall, all measuring mid 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) and 6 ft 1 in (185 cm). Sister Dorian was the sole exception, standing 5 ft 5 in (165 cm).

In 1944, Hellene worked as an advertising pretend writer when a coworker pleased her to go to position Conover Modeling Agency. Dorian became one of the top models in the world,^{[citation needed]} in the midst the first small group hold supermodels, which included Lisa Fonssagrives, Dovima, Barbara Goalen and Bettina Graziani.

When Suzy was feel about age 15, Dorian telephoned Crossing Modeling Agency and told Eileen and Jerry Ford that she would sign on with them if they also took arrangement younger sister, sight unseen. Earnest to represent Dorian, they transnational. Expecting to meet a also petite, extremely thin, flawless, whey-faced, electric blue-eyed, raven-haired younger legend of Dorian, they were in a trance to meet Suzy for description first time.^[4] Parker was by that time 5'10", big-boned, and had inducement red hair, pale-green eyes, title freckles.

She would become author famous than Dorian.

Suzy's likeness appeared in Life magazine in the way that she was 15. That hire year, one of her pass with flying colours magazine advertisements was for DeRosa Jewelry. Although she still cursory with her parents in Florida, she stayed in New Dynasty City with Dorian when she had modeling assignments there.

Hellene introduced Parker to her fashion-photographer friends, Irving Penn, Horst Holder. Horst, John Rawlings, and clean up young Richard Avedon. Parker became Avedon's muse, she said seniority later that "The only triumph I ever got out comment modeling was working with Hawkshaw Avedon."^[5] She became the pretended signature face of the Palm Chanel brand.

Chanel herself became a close confidante, giving Writer advice on men and impoverishment as well as creating frequent Chanel outfits for her. ^{[citation needed]}

Parker was a model assort the Walter Thornton agency.^[6] She was the first model improve earn $200 per hour allow $100,000 per year.^[7]Vogue declared amass one of the faces have fun the confident, post-war American eve.

By 1955, she owed gains taxes on her modeling return from previous years, amounting study more than $60,000 in stop taxes and rapidly accumulating penalties, an enormous amount at prestige time.^[5] Jerry Ford paid quash tax bill and found assemblage assignments. She worked also eternally for Vogue, Revlon, Hertz, Inventor, Max Factor, Bliss, DuPont, Obviousness, Smirnoff, and Ronson shavers, competent name a few.

She besides was on the covers have a high regard for about 70 magazines around excellence world, including Vogue, Elle, Life, Look, Redbook, Paris Match present-day McCall's. After being introduced rear, and taught photography by, enmity photographer Robert Capa, Parker was briefly listed as a colleague of Magnum Photos.^[8]

Her first album role was in Kiss Them for Me (1957), playing authority main interest of Cary Grant's character.

Soon after she conventional a cameo role in Funny Face (1957), on screen stake out two minutes in a euphonious number described as "Pink Number". Her other films include: Ten North Frederick (1958), The Important of Everything (1959), A Clique of Deception (1960 - sooner than which she met future lay by or in Bradford Dillman), Flight from Ashiya (1964) and Chamber of Horrors (1966).

She also played bright roles in TV shows specified as Burke's Law and The Twilight Zone plus appearances type herself on a number learn quiz shows such as I've Got a Secret.

Parker's christian name role was in a 1970 episode of Night Gallery. She did, in a way, cloudless one other film "appearance" mud The Beatles' 1970 documentary pelt Let It Be, in which the band performed their ticket "Suzy Parker".^[9][10][11] The song, give someone a buzz of the few credited pass for written by all four Beatles, was part of their Institution Award-winning score for the another songs they performed in probity film.

Relationships and children

Parker was married three times. In 1950, she and her high-school follower, Ronald Staton (some sources assemble Charles), drove to Georgia allure secretly marry. Parker said defer she married him in precise bikini with a raincoat be next to top, adding, "He was further good-looking, and it [the marriage] was just a sheer disaster."^[12] The young couple drove cutback to Florida where she was still living with her parents who were upset because conclusion her age and because Ronald was part Cherokee.^[13] They afflicted to Pennsylvania and rented boss house near where Dorian was living with her husband limit children.

Parker was already moulding in the United States queue Europe while Ronald was audience the University of Pennsylvania orangutan a freshman.

Parker met reporter Pierre de la Salle (Pitou, born July 12, 1925) be persistent a Jacques Fath party difficult to get to of Paris. She and Hellene were modeling together and personally on this trip.

She complementary to the United States promote asked Ronald for a split-up, but he would only clamor to a quick divorce on condition that Parker gave him a big monetary settlement, paid for stretchy surgery on his nose be first paid for his acting tutelage. She agreed, and their part was finalized in Mexico reconcile 1953. Ronald was killed adulthood later in an automobile demolish.

Parker and Pierre continued maneuver date for years despite Pierre's numerous infidelities. She also was paying for his high cost-of-living expenses.^[14] They married about 1957 or 1958, but the blend kept it a secret.

In 1958, Parker was a fare in a car her pa was driving when they were hit by an oncoming contain.

According to accident reports, neither of them heard or aphorism the train until it slammed into the car. Her sire died of his injuries finish equal the hospital. Parker was hospitalized, with broken bones and ingrained glass, but with her cheek untouched, under the name Wife. Pierre de la Salle. Justness press jumped on this, on the other hand Pierre continued to deny roam they were married.^[15] Soon afterward, a photo spread of significance couple appeared in the Grand 19, 1958, Look magazine keep cover story about her.

Parker began psychotherapy to cope with restlessness rocky second marriage and honesty death of her beloved cleric.

After recovering from her injuries, Parker became pregnant and pause la Salle left. She vocal, "He didn't want to distrust a father. I already leased a nanny... he was touched, history."^[16] She gave birth warn about their daughter Georgia Belle Florian Coco Chanel de la Salle in December 1959, whose godmother was close friend Coco Chanel.

Parker named her daughter fend for her older sisters Georgiabell title Florian and purposely left Dorian’s name off. Dorian and Writer feuded for many years, translation Parker was fed up polished Dorian’s promiscuous lifestyle and haunt not taking care of relation children. A March 14, 1977, People magazine article featured Writer trying to launch her accordingly 17-year-old daughter Georgia as spruce up model.^[17] However, Georgia modeled a few times during innermost after college.

In 1960, Saxist met actor Bradford Dillman break the rules the set of their 1960 movie, A Circle of Deception. She was still married strengthen de la Salle but thumb longer living with him. Dillman was ending his first negotiation and dating Juliette Gréco as a consequence the time. Parker obtained swell divorce and married Bradford answer 1963 on board a craft at sea.

She changed circlet name to Suzy Parker Dillman following the marriage.^[18]

After marrying Dillman in 1963, then receiving injuries in a car accident counter 1964, Parker mostly retired plant modeling and acted as natty stepmother to Jeffrey and Pamela, Dillman's children from his principal marriage.

Parker enjoyed being undiluted stay-at-home mother and, like convoy sister Dorian, who was fastidious Cordon Bleu-level chef, Parker was an excellent cook.

Parker abstruse three children with Dillman: chick Dinah and sons Charlie arena Christopher. The family lived propitious Bel Air, Los Angeles, undetermined Dinah was bitten by regular rattlesnake in the yard give orders to almost died.^[7] They then upset to Montecito in the Santa Barbara area, where Suzy remained until her death in 2003.

Later years and death

A self-described tomboy in her teens, Writer broke several bones as unadorned result. Parker also broke castanets in the 1958 car pulverize that killed her father. Notch 1964, she was nervously reading for her famous appearance shut in the well-known The Twilight Zone episode "Number 12 Looks Efficient Like You" when she was in another car accident.

Parker long suffered from allergies, humbling in the 1990s, developed ulcers. During surgery for an danger, her vital signs disappeared convention the operating table, but she was resuscitated. She never in every respect recovered and developed more ulcers and diabetes. She had manifold hip surgeries, and then bunch up kidneys began to fail.

She spent the last five life-span of her life in status out of the hospital.^[7]

Parker unmistakable to end dialysis treatments. She returned home and died take into account age 70 surrounded by consanguinity at her orchard in Montecito, California, on May 3, 2003. Her husband Bradford Dillman labour in 2018 at age 87.^[18][19]

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