Who is Colleen Corby, Sixties Super Model
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Sixties Super Model
If you were a teen girl in the sixties and you read teen magazines, you probably recognize her. Even though she has not made a public appearance since her 2000 appearance on Oprah, she has fan clubs and message boards dedicated to her on the internet. She still has many faithful fans.
Colleen Corby's first magazine cover
Why I like Colleen Corby
Sixties Super Model
Seeing Colleen Corby's photos brings back a lot of memories of my teen years. I thought she was really beautiful. She wore the newest fashions, traveled the world and made $50 an hour. It seemed like a glamorous dream life to a teen age girl growing up in the Midwest.
I realize now that the life of a teen super model did have its downside. Colleen Corby was booked with modeling assignments all day and had little time to meet boys, let alone date them. She had to make sure she got plenty of sleep lest dark circles appear under her eyes or her complexion look gray. Her diet had to be restricted so she didn't gain weight as her employer, Eileen Ford, insisted that the camera added ten pounds. Colleen was quoted as saying that even though she loved Italian food, pork chops and steak, she ate a lot of fish because it was much lower in calories.
Collen Corby ~ American Girl Cover ~ 1961
Colleen Corby on Wikipedia
Colleen Corby, (Born August 3, 1947) was one of the world's first supermodels, years before the term was widely used. One of the most well known and beloved teen models of the Sixties, Colleen's modeling career began in 1959 when she was just eleven years old. Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job) Colleen was sent on her first modeling assignment. That "summer job" would last for the next twenty years. Colleen's career took off right from the start. By the end of that first summer her assignments were coming so steadily that her parents enrolled her in Manhattan's Professional Children's School, which allows for the irregular schedules of actors and models. By her last year of High School she was so busy she hardly ever attended classes.Read the Wikipedia article here.
Colleen Corby ~ Ingenue Magazine ~ 1962
Colleen Corby's First Seventeen Cover
Books on the Sixties and Fashion
Colleen Corby ~ Cover Girl Ad ~ 1963
A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History
A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History
Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
In this eclectic study, Cavallo, history professor at Adelphi University, relates the youth culture of the 1960s to longstanding American strains of individualism and autonomy. Even the supposed "organization men" of the 1950s raised their children to thrive as competitive individualists, he argues, while Beat-era hippies followed mythic visions of the wild American West.
Other Baby Boomer Lenses
Colleen Corby ~ Seventeen Cover ~ 1964
Molly Corby
Also a model.
Colleen's younger sister Molly was also a model and cover girl. As far as I can tell she did not have the long career that Colleen had..
Molly Corby ~ Teen Magazine Cover
Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out
Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out
Amazon Price: $74.36 (as of 02/17/2012)
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups put Britain at the center of the modern musical map. Please Please Me offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry during the seminal period of 1956 to 1968, based on personal recollections, contemporary accounts, and all relevant data that situate this scene in the economic, political, and social context of postwar Britain
Twiggy (Lesley Hornby)
Twiggy, the English model, came upon the New York modeling scene in 1967. She was 90 pounds and painfully thin. She looked anorexic but her little boy look became wildly popular. She was known for her very short haircut and wide eyed look with lower eyelashes drawn beneath her eyes. She modeled for only four years and then ventured into other areas. She was a successful singer, actress and currently, in her fifties, has a line of bed linens, a line of clothing and has been a judge on America's Next Top Model.Visit Twiggy's Official Website.
Jean Shrimpton
Jean Shrimpton, "The Shrimp", another UK model was a world famous cover girl and for a brief time was the "face of Yardley of London", a cosmetics company. She and her husband are currently innkeepers in Penzance, Cornwall. Shelley Hack
Shelley Hack was a teen model who went to work for Revlon in the 70's and then embarked upon a TV and movie career. Who was your favorite cover girl of the era?
America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History
America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History
Amazon Price: $30.00 (as of 02/17/2012)
Unlike other works, America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives, providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the manifestos of both the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Americans for Freedom, the most prominent radical and conservative student groups of the time. Further, in addition to selections by such individuals as Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, it contains pieces by figures often associated with other times, such as Reverend Billy Graham and Ronald Reagan. Seeking to immerse readers in the decade's key issues in a balanced manner, the book covers the civil rights movement, Vietnam, the counterculture, and the women's movement and looks at some of the 1960's most memorable moments.
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Colleen ~ Seventeen Cover ~ 1966
Collen Corby's Long Career
Collen Corby ended her modeling career in 1979 when she married Peter Bernuth, a businessman. He died in 1994. She has 3 sons, Alexander, Christopher, and Nicolai who are grown now. She lives in Florida. Do you remember Colleen Corby? Were you a fan?
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Jean Waites-Howard
Jan 27, 2011 @ 2:28 pm | delete
- I was a great fan of Colleen's as a teen! I always looked for her in magazines. She was a peer that made it too modeling! The first successful African American model attended by high school. She was the first African American to appear on the cover of Seventeen. Colleen was the first that I noticed!
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Colleen Corby
Jan 22, 2011 @ 8:40 pm | delete
- I'm so pretty!
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Genevieve
Jan 7, 2011 @ 9:39 pm | delete
- She was so natural, not artificial looking like modelsof today.
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Bellabella1
Jan 2, 2011 @ 10:19 pm | delete
- Back in the 1960's when I was a teenager I used to walk to the local drugstore every day in anticipation of a new issue of both Teen and Seventeen magazines. I remember that Seventeen magazine cost 50 cents and Colleen Corby's picture was everywhere in it - sometimes on the cover but the ads were sprinkled throughout. I used to study each page - carefully reading every ad and article as this was my only lifeline to the outside world as I grew up in an extremely small town with older parents. I miss those days as they seemed sweeter and kinder and the world moved at a much slower pace. Colleen made that time in the 1960's a much more imaginative time when teenage girls could dream of a being on the cover of Seventeen magazine and being the next Colleen Corby.
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David Valdez
Nov 27, 2010 @ 8:37 pm | delete
- I fell in love with colleen's face when she appeared in the seventeen magazine with those daisies in her hair and she is looking side ways with her eyes. i cut out that picture from the magazine and stilli have it put away today,that was forty five years ago.
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Maria Eugenia Davila Purcell
Sep 29, 2010 @ 6:48 pm | delete
- Since I was 13 I admired her in all ways.I follow her style wearing my hair as she does and makeup and all that.Finding her now in Internet makes me feels so happy and in all these years i was asking me the question whatever happened to Colleen Corby.and playing with my computer i have receive such a blessing .My next dreamed try to contact her by e-mail or some other new technology.Your loyal fan from Puerto Rico,Maria Eugenia,lots of love.
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arabesque
Aug 8, 2010 @ 10:28 pm | delete
- Colleen was also my role model; I bought every magazine that had her picture on the cover...and that was almost all of them ! I admired everything about her look and did my best to copy it.
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Susied44
May 1, 2010 @ 4:29 pm | delete
- Colleen was my role model. I could never figure out how to get as thin as her! I tried, I really tried! Now that I am 54, I actually look better than most of them now - how ironic! I'm one of "those" women who weighs what they wiehged when they were 18. Sweet revenge?
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Suzi Creme Cheeze
Dec 24, 2009 @ 1:47 am | delete
- Colleen Corby was my favourite model and Seventeen was may favourite magazine. She was my idol! Colleen was a lovely girl and remains a lovely woman to this day. It was said that she had the perfect face. And those beautiful eyes!!!!
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Dec 2, 2009 @ 12:54 pm | delete
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