Actress Sharon Jordan

Sharon Jordan the actress (not to be confused with model Sharon Jordan, whom I featured on this blog in February 2022) is well-known to Disney audiences.

She played Irene the Concierge in the Disney sitcom "Hannah Montana" (starring . . . I won't say her name, but it rhymes with "Wiley Virus")  and played that same role in "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody."

Ms. Jordan has also performed in the Los Angeles production of the play Welcome Home, Soldier, one of the longest-running plays in that city.

Model Inger Heindl

Inger Henidl is a model from the 1980s.

She appeared in numerous fashion editorials, including the New York Times' fashion supplement, from which the above picture was taken.
 

Like most models, Inger Heindl had in her day an incredible versatility, as she could go from by glamour . . . 

. . . to innocence.

Actress Lily Gladstone

Lily Gladstone is an actress of Native American heritage.

Of Blackfoot and Nez Perce ancestry as well as Anglo-Saxon heritage. she made a big name for herself by playing portraying Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman who survived Osage Nation murders in 1920s Oklahoma, in Martin Scorsese's 2023 crime drama film Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.  Ms. Gladstone won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award from the 2024 Golden Globe for her performance, and she was also nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for it.

Ms. Gladstone has also appeared in a couple of TV series, including episodes of HBO's "Room 104" and   FX's "Reservation Dogs," a comedy-drama about Native American teeangers in Oklahoma.

Fun Fact: Lily Gladstone is a descendant of a first cousin of nineteenth-century British prime minister William Gladstone. 

Actress Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Ferguson is well-known to fans of the Mission: Impossible movie franchise.

She has played Ilsa Faust, an MI6 agent, in three of those movies,  Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ,Mission: Impossible - Fallout, and the most recent (as of this writing) movie, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.  One can only wonder when Part Two will come out.  😊   

Among Ms. Ferguson's other movies are two Dune films as Lady Jessica, as well as Kathleen Weatherley in 2016's Florence Foster Jenkins, about the New York socialite of that name known for her philanthropy (Meryl Streep, an earlier honoree on this blog, was in the title role), the villainous enchantress Morgana in 2019's The Kid Who Would Be King, and as Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman, a biographical movie about P.T. Barnum, with Hugh Jackman as Barnum.

Fun fact:  Rebecca Ferguson was born and raised in Sweden, and she uses her British mother's surname.  Her mother helped the Swedish pop group ABBA translate their lyrics to their early songs into English. 

Actress Erin Cahill

 Erin Cahill is an actress with an extensive record in both movies and TV.

While her movie roles have been mostly supporting roles, she's been a bigger presence in television, having had guest parts in drama series such as "Crossing Jordan" and "General Hospital."  Ms. Cahill has played roles in episodes of shows such as  "Cold Case," "CSI: Miami,"Grey's Anatomy," and "House." 

More recently, Ms. Cahill has been a doyenne of Hallmark movies, such as A Timeless Christmas, Every Time A Bell Rings, and Hearts of the Game. At this writing, her most recent film is another Hallmark movie: A Taste of Love.

Model Deborah Brener

 Deborah Brener is a model from the 1980s who came from Illinois. 

She mostly appeared in print ads, but she also did some catalog work as well. 

Both the picture immediately above and the picture below are from the JW Robinsons Fall 1987 catalog.

While not a household name, Ms. Brener had a very successful modeling career, appearing in numerous publications.

Model Carol Asmann

Carol Asmann is a model from the late seventies and early eighties who successfully evoked hot glamour and cool beauty.

This steamy pose in the June-July 1979 issue of the Paris edition of Vogue, certainly demonstrates the former. 😁

Ms, Asmann could afford to be lustily sultry for French audiences, but in America in 1981 - where a return to measured prudishness had been ushered in at the ballot box in the most recent federal elections - she had to tone it down somewhat, as this sleepwear picture for a fashion editorial in the special August 30, 1981 edition of the New York Times Sunday magazine demonstrates.

A far more conservative pose, in the same New York Times magazine issue, is this close-up of Ms. Asmann modeling jewelry. 

Carol Asmann is a woman whose beauty needed to be accordingly re-interpreted for a different audience, but nothing was lost in translation. 😊     

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Special Post!

Consider this an Easter egg. 😃

Pictured below is a 1981 ad for Foxland winter attire, showing three models at the heights of their careers from the height of the modeling profession itself, that is, the early eighties, a period in modeling so relevant to popular culture that Time magazine devoted a 1981 cover story to it.

The models in question were superstars within the profession itself but were anonymous faces to outsiders - maybe because they didn't marry rock stars or appear in Pirelli calendars.  They were bread-and-butter fashion models who appeared on ads for many different products.  All of them have been featured here before.

Pictured from left are Joan Gocha (actress Kate French's mother), whom I last featured in January 2014; Kim Acee, whom I last featured in June 2020, and; Debra Halley, whom I last featured in . . . January 2024! Hey, why not feature her again now, it's worth it!

Happy Easter.  A new A-Z round begins this week. 

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Louise Vyent

Full disclosure requires me to state that, while I once said that I have met Louise Vyent, whom I last featured here in June 2022, it's a little more complicated than that.  I proposed writing an article about her post-modeling work, which at the time was photography.  Unfortunately, she turned me down. 

So why do I keep posting pictures of her here?  You would think I was disappointed in her, right?  Please.  I could never be disappointed with someone like Louise Vyent.  You've heard the cliché "beautiful inside and out?"  You might have heard it before applied to the wrong woman.  Believe me when I say that, in the case of Louise Vyent, it's accurate.   

While a private person by nature, she's also very unassuming and modest,as shown above in a photo from 1986.  What you see with her is what you get.   

The photo below, from 1990, at the height of Ms. Vyent's modeling career, may be my favorite one form her entire portfolio.  just look at how much joy and happiness she radiates.

  

And not too many women can radiate joy and happiness for a camera like Louise Vyent can. 😊

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The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Linda Tonge

I haven't posted any pictures of Wisconsin's Linda Tonge since June 2019, but recently I've come across a whole trove of pictures from her portfolio.  These four pictures of the Badger State beauty are just a tiny sample of what I've found.  And no, I am not going to reveal my source.  

But these pictures are quite revealing of Ms. Tnge as a model as versatile as Margrit Ramme or Catherine Roberts.  It makes sense that they were at their most  active at the same time, mainly the late seventies and early eighties. 

The photo above shows Linda Tonge's Everywoman persona, from the cover of the 1983 Sportspages catalog.

 

And above is a 1993 close-up from Good Housekeeping that is neither from an ad nor an editorial.  It's from a profile article on Linda Tonge herself, serving as a reminder that models are people, not just images on a page on a TV screen.

Of course, Ms. Tonge could always turn on the glamour, as the picture from the Cosmopolitan editorial above shows.

  

And finally, she sports a more professional look in the 1981 photo abe from a Lord & Taylor catalog.  This is the Linda Tonge you'd meet today in her home state of Wisconsin, where she now lives and works as a real estate agent. 😊

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Catherine Roberts

And here's another model I'm featuring after having last featured her only seven months previously.

Catherine Roberts has an extensive portfolio, and I have a long way to go before I exhaust it.  The three pictures I offer here are a good cross section of her work as a model.

The photo above shows Catherine in her glamorous persona, from an Avon catalog ad for perfume.  In the picture below, however, she turns on the sex appeal in a smoldering black-and-white image of her applying mascara.  

 

Ooh, yeah!

The picture is from a Saks Fifth Avenue newspaper ad.

Going back to Catherine's work in Avon catalogs, she sports a warm, informal, nice-lady-next-door look to promote Avon jewelry. 

 

There is no pose Catherine Roberts cannot pull off. 😊

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Margrit Ramme

It's only been seven months (since August 2023) since I last posted pictures of Germany's Margrit Ramme on this blog, and I've been posting pictures of her since April 2011, but I have so many pictures of her on file that I can certainly feature her again so soon. 

She was such a versatile model that she could not only project ,a soft wholesome image as seen in the black-and-white picture in this post . . . 

 

. . . she could be downright sexy as in this silver-metallic jumpsuit!

I have yet to find a bad picture of Margrit Ramme from her vast portfolio.

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Beverly Lee

Once upon a time, finding pictures of the groundbreaking East Asian model Beverly Lee was a difficult task. Now I've been able to find more pictures of her as I get to know where to look. 😃 

 

That's why I get to feature her again only seven months after last doing so (in August 2023).

The photo above is a colorized close-up of Beverly from 1986.  While she can and does appear to be very formal in many of her photo shoots, in the picture below we see the Beverly Lee you'd literally see on the street - relaxed, carefree and accessible. 

And to think this is from a fashion shoot and not a candid shot.

The gentleman in the background represents just about every man who ever saw Beverly Lee come into their presence.  We can't help but be attracted to her.

That's why I feature her so darn much. 😊 

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Kiara Kabukuru

The last time I featured Kiara Kabukuru on this blog, in October 2011, she had only returned to modeling part time after a long absence caused by an injury.

 

 

In 2012, however, she returned to modeling full time.

She is currently associated with IMG Models, an agency with locations in New York, Paris and Sydney, as well as with agencies in Germany and South Africa.

And as the above photo indicates, it's good for modeling that Ms. Kabukuru returned to the profession. 😊 

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Rosalind Johnson

When I first featured Rosalind Johnson on this blog in August 2019, I noted that she was called "perfection on the runway."  Here's some more of her brand of perfection. 💖

Mercy!

And if you think she looks incredibly sexy in the photo above, dig the photo below, in which she appears to be ready to take flight! 

Mmmmmmmmm!

Rosalind Johnson is certainly a woman who can send me pretty far.  😍 

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Regine Jaffry

Here I feature Regine Jaffry for the first time since April 2017, and in doing so, I feature a photo that focuses not on her outfit but her hair.

For many models, modeling hairstyles was their bread and butter. With gorgeous brunette bangs such as these, it must have been Regine Jaffry's six-course dinner. 😃  

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Mélissa Doucouré

Although Mélissa Doucouré was more dominant on the Paris runways than in print ads and editorials, the former French model by way of Mali has still left a great photographic legacy.

And if the above photo is any indication, she also has great hair. 😊 

Which she had to cover up on occasion for an assignment when modeling hats. For Paris is known for being a premier millinery center.

But Mélissa Doucouré looks great all the time, whether she looks like she's ready to fly in living color . . . 

. . . or is well-grounded in black and white.  

 

I last (and initially) featured Mélissa Doucouré on this blog in August 2019.

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition: Lisa Cooper

Lisa Cooper was possibly the blondest of all of the great blonde top models of the 1970s, and she left behind an amazing portfolio after leaving modeling to become a high-end real estate agent. 

The color picture above is from December 1976, when Ms. Cooper was at the top of her game as a model.

Her glamour is obvious, and it also translated well onto black-and-white film, as evidenced below. 

And yes, she knows how to smile.  The picture shows her flashing a smile as beautiful as she is. 

The last time I featured Ms. Cooper was way back in January 2020 - back before this bug called COVID attacked the whole globe.  Yes, it's been that long.  

This Month: The Beauty of Retrospect, March Model Edition!

Because I've abandoned my commitment to posting pictures of a hundred new subjects a year on this blog, I suddenly have a lot of extra space to publish blog posts for women I've featured here before, so I am going to spend the month of March doing that.  This month is devoted to models I've previously featured before, and some of the pictures here are among the best of the respective portfolios of these women.  

Back in a couple of days with my first post of the month.

The Beauty of Retrospect: Four Nancys

For this Leap Day, February 29, which comes once every four years, I offer four pictures of four different models from the 1980s - all of them named Nancy.  (And their surnames all happen to begin with the letter D.)

Above is Nancy Decker, one of the loveliest and most overlooked beauties from the modeling profession in the 1980s.  The Wisconsin-born Ms. Decker was with the Elite agency in the early part of the decade, and she did numerous ads and editorials. 

Above, in a sexy gold lamé dress, is Nancy DeWeir, who, in addition to doing many editorials and magazine covers, was a regular in cosmetics ads as well.

   

Next we have the timelessly beautiful Nancy Donahue, as evidenced from the recent picture above.  She turned 65 last February, but passing the "senior" threshold hasn't left a mark on her or slowed her down.  As a friend of hers, I ought to know. 💕 

  

Finally, this is Nancy Dutiel, who in the late seventies and early eighties, was the face of Lancôme in the United States.  This image, in fact was taken from a Lancôme TV commercial.  She did more than a few of those, but I've only found one on YouTube so far.   

I love Leap Day. 😊

For March, I'm going to take a break from new subjects and feature . . . more retrospectives!  Be back soon.

Actress Traci Wolfe

Traci Wolfe is an actress who was ubiquitous in the late eighties and the nineties - primarily in one role.

She played Rianne Murtaugh, the daughter of Danny Glover's character, in all but the first of the four movies in the Lethal Weapon franchise. 

Ms. Wolfe had started out as a model in the Wilhelmina agency and did assignments for clients such as Avon, the picture above being from an Avon catalog.  In addition to the Lethal Weapon movies, she also appeared in two episodes of "The Cosby Show" and played Virgil Tibbs' niece in an episode of the TV series "In the Heat of the Night."

Ms. Wolfe stepped away from acting in 1998 but returned to face the cameras in a 2020 in an episode of the musical comedy/drama TV series"Katy Keene," and in 2022 she appeared in episodes of "Blue Bloods" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."

Actress Lauren Vélez

 Lauren Vélez is an actress who has been active since the mid-nineties.

She's nest known for playing Nina Moreno, a police detective, in Fox's "New York Undercover," which ran from 1955 to 1999, and she also played Gloria Nathan, a prison doctor, in the HBO prison drama "Oz," which ran for six years beginning in 1997.

Playing roles related to law enforcement must come naturally for Lauren Vélez., as she also played Captain Maria LaGuerta in the Showtime serial-murder series "Dexter," which ran for six years beginning in 2006. 

Actress Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie is an actress who has appeared in both the movies and television.

 

She's best known for playing medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," and she's also played Monica Graham in CBS's police drama Blue Bloods."

Ms. Tunie's film work includes two movies with Al Pacino, 1996's City Hall, in which Pacino played the mayor of New York and Ms. Tunie played his press secretary, Leslie Christos, and a lawyer's demonically possessed wife of a partner in his law firm in 1997's The Devil's Advocate.

Ms. Tunie has also played a real-life person - singer Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, in the 2022 film Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. 

And if you think as a result of the picture above that Ms.Tunie could play Vice President Kamala Harris, she already has - in a play the debuted in London, The 47th, titled in reference not to Kamala Harris's status as the forty-seventh U.S. Vice President - she's the forty-ninth, in fact - but on who will succeed Joe Biden as the forty-seventh U.S. President.

Actress Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney is a young American actress making her name in television.

She started out as a child actress before  appearing in the satirical Netflix show "Everything Sucks!", which aired in 2018.  Ms. Sweeney gained a great deal of attention playing promiscuous  teenager Cassie Howard in the HBO drama series "Euphoria," about high school students in a California town dealing with intense personal issues.  That year, she also played a Manson Family member in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Ms. Sweeney has also played a cynical college sophomore in another HBO series, the black comedy "White Lotus," and she played a young and obedient girl in the dystopian series "The Handmaid's Tale." More recently, she appeared in the promotion video for the Rolling Stones single "Angry." 

Model Micaela Sundholm

Micaela Sundholm is a 1970s-1980s model from Sweden, a place a lot of models seem to come from. 😊

She appeared on the covers of Glamour and Seventeen magazines.

In addition, she also appread in ads for Max Factor and Vidal Sassoon, as well as in catalogs. 

Fun fact: Ms. Sundholm was the third winner of the third Miss Young International pageant (in 1975).