This is the first time I've looked at seventies model Pam Suthern since I first featured her in May 2012.
While she did ads for cosmetics brands and the like, she also modeled for clothing ads. This picture is from an ad for the St. John brand at the old Jacobson's department store chain, and it appeared in the August 1976 issue of the U.S. edition of Vogue.
She has that look that many would call "fierce." :-)
Although Chris Royer (left) is known today as a Halston muse and Nancy Dutiel is best known as the Lancôme spokesmodel who preceded Isabella Rossellini, they have several other credits in their portfolios. And in this photo, from an advertisement that appeared in the March 1976 issue of the U.S. edition of Vogue, they appear together.
How much beauty can you stand? :-D
The ad was for McNamara suits, the text of the ad boasting of the durability of their Du Pont-engineered Dacron polyester fabric.
Better fashion through chemistry? Aw, heck, Chris Royer and Nancy Dutiel never needed synthetic fabric to look stylish. :-)
I'm going to devote the rest of August 2015 to more model retrospectives. :-)
I have two more pictures of Swedish model Maria Hanson, whom I last featured in June 2014. The color photo below is from a 1977 Coty ad, while the black-and-white photo depicts her in closeup.
The black-and-white photo is more stunning, because it brings out the loveliness of her smile as well as that of her piercing eyes. :-)
Yes, I know she was a Maidenform lingerie model, and i know some of you have been yearning to see examples of that line of her work. Sorry I've been slow to include any of them. I will, eventually. I just haven't started yet.
Back in March 2013, I showed a very stunning headshot of model Debara Bertin in an early-1980s ad for Revlon's European Collagen Complex cream, taken very close up to emphasize the product's effectiveness. I wasn't happy with the quality of that version, so I'm posting this much sharper and more vivid version of that same photo that I have since found.
As noted earlier, Debara Bertin, an American model, worked extensively in France, and she appeared in several fashion and beauty ads and publications.
Constance Zimmer is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Claire Simms on the TV law drama "Boston Legal."
On that show, which ran on ABC from 2004 to 2008 (and also starred James Spader, currently on NBC's "The Blacklist"), Claire was a savvy lawyer with a penchant for flirting with witnesses.
Ms. Zimmer now plays Quinn King on "UnREAL," a drama about a fictional reality show, Quinn is the show's executive producer, and she keeps pushing the envelope on this fictional reality drama to make it less reality and more drama.
Name any top TV actress in America, and she probably isn't as big here as Gabriela Spanic is in Venezuela.
Ms. Spanic, who is of Croatian descent on her father's side, is the queen of the telenovela, the Latin American equivalent of a soap opera, in Venezuela. Staring out as a model, she quickly made it into acting with many lead and supporting television roles. For four years beginning in 1998, she played twin sisters in the telenovela "La Usurpadora" ("The Usurper"). It was shown in more than 160 countries and became one of most popular telenovelas in Spanish-speaking countries.
Fun fact: While she played twins on TV, Gabriela Spanic actually has a twin sister - Daniela Spanic. She too is an actress.
Kate Rogers is a more recent addition to the CNBC on-air family. :-)
She joined the financial/consumer channel in September 2014, and she covers small-business news and provides stories to CNBC and its sister Web site on a daily basis. She worked as a personal-finance and small-business reporter before joining CNBC as well.
Rosamund Pike got an incredible amount of favorable attention as the missing wife in the 2014 film adaption of the novel Gone Girl, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
The British actress first came to people's attention in the James Bond movie Die Another Day but soon defied that rule that Bond girls only go on to become former Bond girls. She soon distinguished herself in movies such as An Education (2009) an Made In Dagenham (2010), both sixties-period films. She played a con man's girlfriend in the former movie, which was set in 1961, and, in the latter, played a sewing machinist in the upholstery section of the Ford of Europe car factory in Dagenham, England. The movie was about the 1968 women's strike there that led Parliament in 1970 to pass a law guaranteeing equal pay for women in Britain, a concept Americans still have a problem with. (American and British attitudes toward pay equality are as different as the Fords made in either country.)
Ms. Pike more recently played Queen Andromeda in 2012's Wrath of the Titans, and she's played the title role in a 2010 production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
Connie Nielsen, originally from Denmark, became a major star after playing the wife of Roman gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe) in the 2000 movie Gladiator.
She also made a notable impression in the Robin Williams movie One Hour Photo, playing the wife and mother of a family Williams' photo-processor character is fanatically obsessed with.
Ms. Nielsen had broken in to cinema through roles in a few European movies, but it was her role in the 1997 Al Pacino/Keanu Reeves move The Devil's Advocate that led to her international breakthrough. Having turned fifty in July 2015, she remains active today.
Fun fact: She dated Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for four years beginning in 2004.
It is with great sadness that I must report the death of one of my earlier subjects on this blog. British singer Cilla Black, whom I featured in July 2010 as part of a series devoted to female British singers, died yesterday in Spain at 72.
Black, born Priscilla White in Liverpool, was a friend of the Beatles and was determined to be a professional singer. She worked as a coat-check girl in Liverpool's Cavern Club to get her foot in the door and ultimately got Brian Epstein to take her on as one of his clients. She gained her stage name when local music writer Bill Harry reviewed her show and misremembered her surname. She liked "Black" over "White" and so went by "Black."
In addition to recording songs by her good friends John Lennon and Paul McCartney - three of which, "Loved Of the Loved," "It's For You," and Step Inside Love," were given away by the Beatles for her to record - she covered songs from the Righteous Brothers and also did Burt Bacharach tunes. She never became a big star in the United States like her fellow Britishers Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark did, mainly because she didn't like spending a lot of time away from England. But she became an institution in the United Kingdom, so much that she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
My post of Cilla Black from July 2010 will remain on this blog, but, as always, I will not be featuring her again going forward, as I do not feature women who are deceased.
As a memorial to her, I offer to my followers this 2015 remaster of the appropriately titled "It's For You."
Maye Musk is a veteran model with an impressive background.
Having been a model since the 1960s, the Canadian-born Mrs. Musk, currently based in California, has worked and lived all over the world. A registered dietitian and nutritionist, he runs her own nutrition business, and she's worked closely with various institutions, including hospitals and universities all over the world.
Full disclosure requires me to state that she's one of my Facebook friends from the modeling trade. Yes, she's the mother of space/auto entrepreneur Elon Musk. No, I can't get you a good deal on a Tesla. :-P
