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Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, considered to be "America's first supermodel." In her time, she was variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus."She was the model or inspiration for more than twelve statues in New York City, and many others elsewhere.
Aug 6, 2022 · Audrey Munson was born in 1891 in Rochester, New York, to a father who was an itinerant real-estate speculator, according to James Bone's "The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson."Her mother, Kittie, raised Audrey by herself after divorcing when Audrey was 8 over her husband's philandering, per "The Curse of Beauty."
Dec 15, 2022 · Audrey Munson in the film “Purity” (1916). She was the first American leading lady to appear nude in a mainstream movie. Credit... Library of Congress
Audrey Munson. Audrey Munson was a model and actress who achieved fame in the early part of the 20th Century in the United States. Born on June 8, 1891, in Rochester, New York, Munson was the only child produced by the marriage of Edgar Munson and Katherine Mahoney Munson. After her parents divorced, Munson was raised by her mother.
Audrey Munson died at the age of 104 on Feb. 20, 1996. She was buried in an unmarked grave in New Haven Cemetery in New Haven, N.Y. But on her 125 th birthday, her family placed a simple tombstone on her grave. With thanks to The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel by James Bone.
Apr 17, 2016 · Born in 1891, Audrey Munson was blessed with a classically beautiful body and the courage to bare it—or, as she put it, to “brazen it out”—in the service of art. In the new book The Curse ...
Jun 23, 2020 · The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted millions of women in the U.S. the right to vote. T...
Apr 15, 2016 · Audrey Munson was the model for the gilded statue of Civic Fame atop the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan (the city’s second-tallest statue, after Lady Liberty); Columbia Triumphant at the ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Audrey Marie Munson was born on June 8, 1891, in Rochester, New York. Her father, Edgar Munson, was a real estate broker who was descended from one of the founders of New Haven, Connecticut, and ...
Audrey Munson. Actress: Purity. Audrey Munson was a model and actress who achieved fame in the early part of the 20th Century in the United States. Born on June 8, 1891, in Rochester, New York, Munson was the only child produced by the marriage of Edgar Munson and Katherine Mahoney Munson. After her parents divorced, Munson was raised by her mother. At age 17, she and her mother moved to...
