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...Hutton's background apparently immunized her against chichiness. Born in Charleston, S.C., reared in southern Florida, Mary Laurence Hutton led a tomboy's existence. She learned woodsmanship, fishing and baby-alligator trapping from her stepfather, Jack Hall. (Hutton is the name of her real father, who died after her parents separated; Lauren she borrowed from Bacall.) A scruffy, skinny girl whom the kids called "the yellow wax bean," she earned her first pennies selling worms to fishermen. It took a matchmaking teacher to get her an escort for the senior prom. She wore blue jeans all through high...
...negotiations with Revson took months. Hutton recalls that "he sobbed, he gasped, he clutched his chest." In the end he also met her price. Revson, chairman of the Revlon Co., knew what he was after. Back in the '50s he built a successful campaign around Suzy Parker. For Ultima II, his high-priced line, he also wanted someone special...
...hawking dresses, furs or bras. Garments speak for themselves, and the wearer must simply show them to good advantage. Makeup is something else. It blends with the face, and the potential customer cannot distinguish the product apart from the package. So Revson bought the exclusive advertising rights to Hutton's image because she has a "reachable, nonremote" quality. "She is a symbol," he says, "of the ability of the American woman to achieve beauty despite isolated features not in themselves beautiful...
...Hutton's start in modeling was almost accidental. She was in New York, intending to leave for Africa on a whim, when she answered an ad for a house model at Christian Dior's salon. "I conned them into thinking I had modeled before," she says. "I just watched the other girls do their pirouettes and imitated them." The job was hers-at $50 a week. Not everybody was so cooperative, however...
...said I would when I had the money, but I figured it might take me a while to get around to it-if ever." That time never came. That gapless smile in ads is not a sign of capitulation. It is a result of a tiny false tooth Hutton inserts when working...