Colleen corby age
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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 ba
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Colleen Corby
American model
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Corby in the 1960s | |
| Born | (1947-08-03) August 3, 1947 (age 77) Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Hair color | Dark Brown |
| Eye color | Green |
| Agency | Ford Models |
Colleen Corby (born August 3, 1947) is an American retired model. She is best known for her work as a teen in the 1960s, as well as for her modeling work in department storecatalogs from the 1960s and 1970s, including those of Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, and others. Corby's modeling career began in 1959 when she was eleven years old.
Early career
Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job), Corby was sent on her first modeling assignment. By the end of that first summer, she was steadily booking assignments and her parents enrolled her in Manhattan's Professional Children's School, which allows for the irregular schedules of actors and models. By her last year of high school, she was so busy she hardly eve
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COLLEEN CORBY was one of the all-time favorite SEVENTEEN models.
Starting her career at a very young age, posing for American Girl, The Girl
Scout magazine, Co-ed,Teen, Ingenue, she was already an experienced
model by age 16 when she first appeared on the cover of Seventeen in April
1963. The editors for all teenage oriented magazines knew they had a hot
property in COLLEEN CORBY.
And what a young beauty she was. She had that amazing dewiness, the
perfect glowing skin, hair and innocent on-camera movement that gradually
became more stylized as this young model grew into herself and her
signature look.
Colleen Corby: loved working with the camera and the camera simply
loved her. She knew exactly where her best light was and always
played to that. She was one of the first young models who capitalized
on the sultry look while retaining that innocent sweetness in the same
breath, a la junior VOGUE. By the time she’d been in Seventeen
regularly for a year or so, she would only crack a big smile if she was
asked to do so
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