Biography

Lauren Hutton

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Following her success as a top fashion model for the Ford Modeling Agency and Revlon cosmetics, Hutton was selected to play the only major female character in Paper Lion (1968). After a semi-successful starring role in American Gigolo (1980), Hutton's modeling career took a slide in the 1980s, and she was relegated to B-movie roles. Her modeling career was resuscitated in 1989 with photos in catalogs for Barneys and J. Crew. In 1995, she started a new job as talk show host.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray Hamel

Was a Playboy bunny.
When she began working at the Playboy Club upon first arriving in Manhattan, she was still going by her birth name, Mary. There were already several bunnies named Mary, however, so management suggested that she choose another name. Using actress Lauren Bacall as her inspiration, she shortened her middle name of Laurence to Lauren, and went with that.
21 October 2000 - admitted to the hospital after a motorcycle accident. She was riding with fellow stars Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons among others on a 100-mile ride celebrating the planned Guggenheim motorcycle exhibit. She was listed in serious but stable condition with multiple leg fractures and cuts and bruises. The accident could have been far more serious. Hopper insisted that she wear motorbike leathers, and Irons gave her a full-face helmet just minutes before her crash.
Was the first model to negotiate a major cosmetics deal.
Was the original "Charlie" perfume girl in the long running ad campaign.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. I don't think I will ever cut my face, because once I cut it, I'll never know where I've been.
I hope to do modeling till I am 100. There is a chance. My mom just turned 96.
I feel a bit like a fantastic granny to all the gap-toothed models today. There's this British one, Adwoa Aboah, who founded Gurls Talk (2016). She's deeply beautiful. She's the most wonderful, shocking beauty to come around in a long time.
[her beauty advice] Drinking as much water as you can. Eight glasses a day. Sleep. Taking pleasure for yourself, being your own good mother -- mother yourself. With the forces of life, we often neglect ourselves too much. I try to go out and see movies I care about. An awful lot are worth it. I like to read and see my friends and my sweetheart. Take time for what moves you and what will make you happy.
Parasite (2019) -- I saw it three mornings in a row, at Sixth Avenue. That movie, every word was important. You see both sides very equally. You see where they made terrible divergences and why it happened. I would like to see that movie for the rest of my life. I love that movie because I learned something, and that's what keeps me young, as long as I can keep doing it.

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