Colleen Corby
- Actress
Very fetching and slender 5'7" brunette Colleen Corby was born on August 3, 1947 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The eldest daughter of Robert and Peggy Corby, Colleen grew up in Luzerne, Pennsylvania. Corby started her modeling career posing for back-to-school advertisements for The Boston Store. Colleen eventually moved with her family to New York City in 1958. Corby's modeling career subsequently took off after she signed on with the Ford Modeling Agency in the summer of 1959. Two weeks after signing on with the Ford Modeling Agency Colleen did a cover shoot for the magazine "Girl Scout Equipment." Corby's parents enrolled her in Manhattan's Professional Children's School to better enable her to pursue a full-time modeling career.
Colleen appeared on the cover of "Seventeen" magazine for the first time in April, 1964. Corby was featured on the cover of "Seventeen" an unprecedented fifteen times altogether, with five covers in 1964 alone as well as was featured in the magazine's fashion spreads on an almost monthly basis. Among the other publications Colleen graced the covers of are "Teen," "Co-ed," "Ingenue," and "American Girl." Moreover, in 1963 Corby signed a multi-year contract with Universal that ultimately went nowhere. However, Colleen nonetheless also did TV commercials and continued modeling for both catalogs and magazines alike throughout the 1960's. Come the 1970's Corby was still appearing in such magazines as "Glamour" and "Mademoiselle" and modeling in catalogs for Sears and JC Penney among others. Colleen retired from modeling in 1979 in the wake of marrying businessman Peter Bernuth, but made a brief return to modeling in the early 1980's before retiring a second and final time after the birth of her second child. Corby settled down in Florida and went on to work in Alumni Relations and Development at the University of Miami School of Business in Coral Gables, Florida.
Colleen appeared on the cover of "Seventeen" magazine for the first time in April, 1964. Corby was featured on the cover of "Seventeen" an unprecedented fifteen times altogether, with five covers in 1964 alone as well as was featured in the magazine's fashion spreads on an almost monthly basis. Among the other publications Colleen graced the covers of are "Teen," "Co-ed," "Ingenue," and "American Girl." Moreover, in 1963 Corby signed a multi-year contract with Universal that ultimately went nowhere. However, Colleen nonetheless also did TV commercials and continued modeling for both catalogs and magazines alike throughout the 1960's. Come the 1970's Corby was still appearing in such magazines as "Glamour" and "Mademoiselle" and modeling in catalogs for Sears and JC Penney among others. Colleen retired from modeling in 1979 in the wake of marrying businessman Peter Bernuth, but made a brief return to modeling in the early 1980's before retiring a second and final time after the birth of her second child. Corby settled down in Florida and went on to work in Alumni Relations and Development at the University of Miami School of Business in Coral Gables, Florida.
