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Jean Shrimpton
Birth nameJean Shrimpton
Date of birth7 November 1942 (1942--) (age 65)
Place of birthBuckinghamshire, England,
Height5'7
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorBlue
Dress size8
Shoe size4
Spouse(s)Michael Cox
Jean Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a former English Supermodel (the word was created in the 60's to describe Shrimpton) and actress, who graduated from Lucie Clayton's modelling school at the age of 17 in 1960. Nicknamed 'The Shrimp', she was an icon of Swinging Sixties London, possessing some of the gamine features that also made a huge success of the younger Twiggy. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the 1967 movie Privilege, and was name-checked in the Smithereens song, Behind the Wall of Sleep.

In 1965, Shrimpton caused a sensation in very conservative Melbourne in Australia when she arrived for the Victoria Derby race during Melbourne Cup week. She shocked everybody by wearing a daring white shift dress which ended high above her knees, a forerunner of the miniskirt which became a worldwide craze (this dress was designed and made by the young fashion designer, Colin Rolfe). To make things worse she wore no hat, stockings or gloves and wore a man's watch, which was very controversial at the time. Shrimpton was blissfully unaware she would cause such reactions among the then staid and prim Melbourne community and media.

In her article "The Man in the Bill Blass Suit," Nora Ephron tells of the time when Jean Shrimpton posed for a Revlon ad in an antique white Chantilly lace dress by Blass. Minutes after the lipstick placard hit the drugstores, the Revlon switchboard lit up with calls from women demanding to know where they could buy the dress. (Ephron article reprinted in "Wallflower at the Orgy," a Bantam Book, July 2007.)

The fashion trendsetter was also a heartbreaker to many glamorous men she knew during her time as a world famous cover girl (including a stint as the face of Yardley of London). She was once engaged to 60s photographer David Bailey, on whom the David Hemmings character in the movie Blowup was based. They met on a shoot for a Cornflakes advertisement. His friend told him she was too posh for him, but Bailey was undeterred and the two subsequently had a relationship for four years. Her other celebrated romance was with actor Terence Stamp. As one of the most beautiful couples among the trendy denizens of Carnaby Street, and other hang-outs of Mod London, the two seemed a perfect couple to outsiders, but Shrimpton dumped him, citing the actor's narcissism. Stamp has said that the break-up pushed him into anguish and despair, while she was quoted in a newspaper interview saying she doubted he ever loved her.

Shrimpton eventually found a more enduring love with her photographer husband Michael Cox, with whom she has a son, born in 1981. They currently run a small hotel in Penzance, Cornwall. Her younger sister Chrissie was also an actress, romantically linked to both Mick Jagger and Steve Marriott of The Small Faces.

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Year 1942 (MCMXLII
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945

Year 1942 (MCMXLII
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High Wycombe

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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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supermodel is a highly-paid elite fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling.[1] The term took hold in the popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

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Their 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive.
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London
Canary Wharf is the centre of London's modern office towers
London shown within England
Coordinates:
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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Gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child.

The word was used in English from about the mid 19th century (for example, by Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches), but, in the 20th
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Leslie Hornby (Popularly known as Twiggy) (born 19 September 1949) is an English supermodel, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson.
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Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942, in Portsmouth, England) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio and television presenter.

In 1962, Jones became resident-singer with Alexis Korner's Bluesbreakers (alongside Long John Baldry, both towering out
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Smithereens may refer to:
  • A collection of small fragments[1]
  • Smithereens, a 1982 film by Susan Seidelman
  • The Smithereens, a rock band from New Jersey
  • Smithereens a book by Shaun Micallef

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Behind the Wall of Sleep
(1995) Dahmer
(2000)

Behind the Wall of Sleep is an EP by Macabre released in 1994 by Nuclear Blast Records.
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Melbourne
Victoria

Location of Melbourne in Australia

Population:
• Density: 3,744,373 (2006 estimate) (2nd)
479.
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Location Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne, Australia
Inaugurated: 1861
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website: Flemington Racecourse
Race information
Distance 3200 metres (1.
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The miniskirt (often hyphenated as mini-skirt) is a skirt with a hemline well above the knees (generally 20 cm—about 8 inches—or more above knee level). The mini was the defining fashion symbol of "Swinging London" in the 1960s.
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David Bailey CBE (born January 2, 1938 in Leytonstone, London) is a celebrated and famous English photographer.

Early life

Although born in Leytonstone, his family were forced to move to Heigham Road, East Ham when a World War II bomb destroyed the family home.
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David Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003) was an English movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup
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Blowup (also rendered as Blow-Up) is an award-winning 1966 British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and was that director's first English language film.
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Terence Stamp

Born July 22 1938 (1938--) (age 69)
Stepney, London, England

Terence Henry Stamp (born July 22, 1938[1]) is an English actor.
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Carnaby Street is a leading fashion and lifestyle street in London, located in the area of 'Carnaby' in the district of Soho, near Oxford Street, and just to the east of Regent Street.
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Penzance
Cornish - Pensans

Arms granted to the municipal borough of Penzance in 1934
Penzance ()
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Cornwall
Kernow

(Flag)
Motto: Onen hag oll
(Cornish: One and all)

Geography
Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Region South West England
Area
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Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is one of the world's most famous celebrities, best known as the frontman of the rock band The Rolling Stones.
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Stephen Peter Marriott (January 30 1947 - April 20 1991) popularly known as Steve Marriott, was a successful and versatile singer-songwriter and lead guitarist. He is best remembered for his loud singing voice which belied his small stature and for his lead guitar
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Small Faces were a group from East London, England heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues.[1] Founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston (replaced by Ian McLagan).
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990 and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com.
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