Doe Avedon
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Also Known As
Doe Avedon Siegel,
Dorcas Nowell
Birth Place
Old Westbury, New York, USA
Born
April 07, 1925
Died
December 18, 2011
Cause of Death
Pneumonia
Biography
Life Events
1944
Married Avedon and became his muse
1949
Won a Theater World Award for "The Young and Fair," a drama by N. Richard Nash, in which she played the mean girl at a college for young ladies; also appeared in the Broadway comedy "My Name Is Aquilon"
1954
Film debut, "High and the Mighty" opposite John Wayne
1954
Appeared in the biographical feature "Deep in My Heart"
1955
Landed a recurring role on "Big Town," a noirish newspaper drama
1957
Relationship with ex-husband Avedon, whom she divorced in 1949, loosely inspired the romantic "Funny Face," starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire
1984
Returned to feature films after an almost eighteen-year hiatus in John Cassavetes's "Love Streams"; final film credit
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