Doe Avedon Dead: Model, Actress and 'Funny Face' Inspiration Dies at 86

Once the story of Dorcas Nowell -- and her rise in the New You are able to office manager inside the 19 forties with a famous fashion model and celebrity -- appears just like a Hollywood production, enjoy it actually was: Dorcas, an element-time model, caught the interest of famous fashion digital digital photographer Richard Avedon, changed her title to Doe Avedon after marriage, in addition to their whirlwind romance wound up being the building blocks of 'Funny Face,' the 1957 film with Katherine Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Doe Avedon died on Sunday at 86, following complications from pneumonia. Doe and Richard were only married for five years, but that was the required time on her behalf to alter into an actress on stage, film and television. Furthermore with a recurring role inside the 19 fifties television series 'Big Town,' Avedon also came out in 'The High as well as the Mighty' opposite John Wayne, additionally to 'Love Streams' for director John Cassavetes. For 'Funny Face,' her friend Leonard Gershe written the 1957 film musical, which told the story from the famous fashion digital digital photographer named Dick Avery (Astaire), who falls deeply deeply in love with a Greenwich Village bookshop salesgirl (Hepburn) and turns her in to a world-famous fashion model. (Before meeting Richard, Doe works at the office jobs because it gave her more hours to determine.) Directed by Stanley Donen ('Singin' inside the Rain'), 'Funny Face' really was also modified from Gershe's less efficient musical, 'Wedding Sensors.' To this day, it possibly remains most legendary for that scene where Katherine Hepburn dances, which was later co-chosen for just about any Gap commercial in 2006. Doe Avedon is managed to get by four children, all from her marriage to director Don Siegel ('Dirty Harry'), a stepson, seven grandchildren, five great grandchildren and her longtime companion, actor Michael Lisco. [via NYT, THR] [Photo: Everett] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook