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Model-actress Suzy Parker, one of the most recognizable faces of the 1950s and a forerunner of the supermodel, has died. She was 69.

Parker, known in later life as Suzy Parker Dillman, died Saturday night at her home in Montecito, according to her stepdaughter, Pamela Dillman Harmon.

Parker, known for her full, red hair and beautiful bone structure, was the signature face for designer Coco Chanel, photographed by the likes of Richard Avedon and Milton H. Greene. Greene once said Parker helped redefine the word "elegance" in magazines.

Author Eleanor Dwight, in her 2002 biography "Diana Vreeland," about the famed fashion editor who gave Parker her start, said Parker was "the" model of the 1950s. She was at one time the highest paid model, earning $200 an hour.

"I believe in the gold standard," Parker told The Washington Post in the early 1960s. "I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down."

In 1957, Parker made her Hollywood debut in the musical "Funny Face," starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. She danced in a number called "Think Pink" that spoofed fash

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“I can tell you about the day I first met Suzy,” says founder of the eponymous modeling agency Eileen Ford. “One day Dorian Leigh, one of the top models in the world at that time, called and said, ‘I will come with your agency if you tell me now you’ll take my little sister Suzy sight unseen.’ To get Dorian Leigh I would have taken Gargantua. So we all agreed to meet at a restaurant on 55th Street. And Jerry [Eileen’s husband] and I were sitting there waiting for Dorian and her little sister. In came Dorian, followed by five-foot-ten, redheaded, blue-eyed Suzy Parker. Jerry and I almost fainted with delight.”

Suzy was signed, and her earnings would rise to $100,000. How important was the fledgling model to Ford’s fledgling business? “How would you like to guess the answer to that?” asks Eileen with a laugh. “Wildly. There aren’t many Suzys in the world. God didn’t create them.”

“Don’t forget,” says actress Ali MacGraw, who styled a shoot with Suzy in the 60s, “this is the day before anyone got retouched. You could not go out and make a Suzy Parker.”

And Suzys can be scary. That

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Suzy Parker

American model and actress (1932–2003)

This article is about the American model and actress. For the song by British band The Beatles with the same title, see Suzy Parker (Beatles song).

Suzy Parker
Suzy Parker in 1963
Born	Cecilia Ann Renee Parker (1932-10-28)October 28, 1932 Long Island City, New York, U.S.
Died	May 3, 2003(2003-05-03) (aged 70) Montecito, California, U.S.
Other names	Suzy Parker Dillman
Occupation(s)	Model, actress
Years active	1947–1970
Spouses	Charles Staton (m. 1950; div. 1953) Pierre de la Salle (m. 1958; div. 1961)
Children	4
Relatives	Dorian Leigh (sister)

Suzy Parker (born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker; October 28, 1932 – May 3, 2003) was an American model and actress active from 1947 until 1970. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s, when she appeared on the covers of dozens of magazines and in advertisements and movie and television rol