ProfileFiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, formerly Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, (born 25 June 1932) is a New Zealand-born British model. She had a successful career in the 1950s, and one of the three greatest British models of their time together with Barbara Goalen and Anne Gunningn. Named the most beautiful model of Vogue, Fiona Campbell was photographed by Henry Clarke, Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, Henry Paisley, George’s Dambier, etc. Fiona Campbell-Walter became the third Baroness Thyssen after marrying Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva. Biography1932 Fiona Campbell-Walter (born Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter) was born on 25 June 1932 in Auckland, New Zealand. 1950s In the 1950s, Fiona was one of the most famous and photographed models, as the favorite muse of Cecil Beaton, she was also the protagonist under the camera of other famed photographers like Henry Clarke, John French, David Bailey, Norman Parkingson etc. As one of the top models of her day, she did not just appear in the major women's magazines like Vogue, but also the salons of the top Couturiers like Christian Dior, and Jacques Fath and Elsa Schiaparelli. 1956: Baroness von Thyssen On 17 September 1956, in a small Italian village of Castagnola, Fiona was married to Baron Hans Henrik Agost Gabor Tasso Friherr Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon et Imperfalva, mostly known as Heini von Thyssen, who was heir to a fortune made from steel and arms, and a major art collector whose collection was said to be second only to Queen Elizabeth II. After her marriage, she lived with her husband in Villa Favorita beside Lake of Lugano, a life of elegance, culture and power. She had two children with Heini von Thyssen, one daughter named Francesca in 1958, and a son Lorne in 1963, and not long afterwards, she divorced her husband and moved to London with her two children. Since 1969, Fiona was involved romantically with Alexandre Onassis, the son of Aristote Onassis. who tried to stop the love affair because Fiona was 16b years older than his son Alexandre, but after the death of Alexandre in January 1973, he realized the two never really parted. Named the most beautiful model of Vogue, Fiona Campbell-Walter had a relative short career, mostly in the 1950s before her marriage, and occassionlly in the 1960s after her divorce, but she remained one of the greatest British models in that epoque, together with Barbara Goalen and Anne Gunning. And during her short career, Fiona von Thyssen, she has worked with most of the greatest photographers of her time: Henry Clarke, Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, Henry Paisley, Georges Dambier, John Deakin, Frances McLaughlin-Gilln, John French, Milton Greene, and David Bailey. Further interestArticles:
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David Mackenzie Ogilvy CBE (23 June 1911 – 21 July 1999) was a British advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the "Father of Advertising". Trained at the Gallup research organisation, he attributed the success of his campaigns to meticulous research into consumer habits. BiographyDavid Mackenzie Ogilvy was born on 23 June 1911 at West Horsley, Surrey in England. His mother was daughter of a civil servant from Ireland. His father was a stockbroker. He was a first cousin once removed of the writer Rebecca West and of Douglas Holden Blew Jones, who was the brother-in-law of Freda Dudley Ward and the father-in-law of Antony Lambton, 6th Earl of Durham. Ogilvy attended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, on reduced fees because of his father's straitened circumstances and won a scholarship at age thirteen to Fettes College, in Edinburgh. In 1929, he again won a scholarship, this time in History to Christ Church, Oxford. His studies were not successful, however, and he left Oxford for Paris in 1931 where he became an apprentice chef in the Hotel Majestic. After a year, he returned to Scotland and started selling AGA cooking stoves, door-to-door. His success at this marked him out to his employer, who asked him to write an instruction manual, The Theory and Practice of Selling the AGA Cooker, for the other salesmen. Thirty years later, Fortune magazine editors called it the finest sales instruction manual ever written. After seeing the manual, Ogilvy's older brother Francis Ogilvy—the father of actor Ian Ogilvy—showed the manual to management at the London advertising agency Mather & Crowther where he was working. They offered the younger Ogilvy a position as an account executive. In 1938, Ogilvy persuaded his agency to send him to the United States for a year, where he went to work for George Gallup's Audience Research Institute in New Jersey. Ogilvy cites Gallup as one of the major influences on his thinking, emphasizing meticulous research methods and adherence to reality. During World War II, Ogilvy worked for the British Intelligence Service at the British embassy in Washington, DC. There he analyzed and made recommendations on matters of diplomacy and security. Eisenhower’s Psychological Warfare Board picked up the report and successfully put Ogilvy’s suggestions to work in Europe during the last year of the war. Also during World War II David Ogilvy was a notable alumnus of the secret Camp X, located near the towns of Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. After the war, Ogilvy bought a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and lived among the Amish. The atmosphere of "serenity, abundance, and contentment" kept Ogilvy and his wife in Pennsylvania for several years, but eventually he admitted his limitations as a farmer and moved to Manhattan. Having worked as a chef, researcher, and farmer, Ogilvy now started his own advertising agency with the backing of Mather and Crowther, the London agency being run by his elder brother, Francis, which later acquired another London agency, S.H. Benson. The new agency in New York was called Ogilvy, Benson, and Mather. David Ogilvy had just $6,000 ($59,726.72 in 2016 dollars) in his account when he started the agency. He writes in Confessions of an Advertising Man that, initially, he struggled to get clients. Ogilvy & Mather was built on David Ogilvy's principles; in particular, that the function of advertising is to sell and that successful advertising for any product is based on information about its consumer. He disliked advertisements that had loud patronizing voices, and believed a customer should be treated as intelligent. In 1955, he coined the phrase, "The customer is not a moron, she's your wife" based on these values. His entry into the company of giants started with several iconic advertising campaigns: former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, did a commercial for Good Luck Margarine in 1959. In his autobiography, Ogilvy On Advertising, he said it had been a mistake to persuade her to do the ad – not because it was undignified, but because he had grown to realize that putting celebs in ads is a mistake. "Pablo Casals is coming home – to Puerto Rico", a campaign which Ogilvy said helped change the image of a country, and was his proudest achievement. One of his greatest successes was "Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream". This campaign helped Dove become the top selling soap in the U.S Ogilvy believed that the best way to get new clients was to do notable work for his existing clients. Success in his early campaigns helped Ogilvy get big clients such as Rolls-Royce and Shell. New clients followed and Ogilvy's company grew quickly. He was widely hailed as "The Father of Advertising" In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry". Ogilvy & Mather linked with H.H.D Europe in 1972. In 1973, Ogilvy retired as Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and moved to Touffou, his estate in France. The Château de Touffou is a castle, converted into a mansion, in the commune of Bonnes 18 km east of Poitiers, 3 km north of Chauvigny in the Vienne département and on a long tall bank of the River Vienne, France. The château was constructed over several centuries. The Medieval Wing includes Romanesque and gothic elements (the keep). The east half dates back to the 12th century while the west half was constructed in the early 15th century. The Renaissance Wing was added during the 16th century by the Chasteigner family. The main difference between these two epochs in castle construction is that in the Middle Ages, a castle was built for defense. In the Renaissance however, a castle was a home for nobles. Rather than defense and protection, the castle-dwellers in the Renaissance strived for classy, fashionable residences. Today, the Medieval Wing is used to accommodate large business meetings and seminars, and the Renaissance Wing is the private residence of the castle proprietor. The castle has been privately owned throughout its existence. It passed from the Oger family (1127-1280) to the Montléon family (1280-1519) and eventually to the Chasteigner family (1519-1821). Jean Chasteigner III, a Chamberlain to Francis I, oversaw most of the castle’s renovation in the early Renaissance. Once the Chasteigners sold the castle, Touffou changed hands several times, finally being purchased in 1966 by David Ogilvy from the "de Vergie family". The castle is still owned by the Ogilvy family, even after David's death in 1999. In 1923 the castle was recognized as a monument historique, and in 2004 its gardens were classified as among the Notable Gardens of France by the French Ministry of Culture. While no longer involved in the agency's day-to-day operations, he stayed in touch with the company. His correspondence so dramatically increased the volume of mail handled in the nearby town of Bonnes that the post office was reclassified at a higher status and the postmaster's salary raised. “IT TAKES A BIG IDEA TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF CONSUMERS AND GET THEM TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT. UNLESS YOUR ADVERTISING CONTAINS A BIG IDEA, IT WILL PASS LIKE A SHIP IN THE NIGHT. I DOUBT IF MORE THAN ONE CAMPAIGN IN A HUNDRED CONTAINS A BIG IDEA.” Ogilvy came out of retirement in the 1980s to serve as chairman of Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather in India. He also spent a year acting as temporary chairman of the agency’s German office, commuting weekly between Touffou and Frankfurt. He visited branches of the company around the world, and continued to represent Ogilvy & Mather at gatherings of clients and business audiences. In 1989, The Ogilvy Group was bought by WPP Group, a British parent company, for US$864 million in a hostile takeover made possible by the fact that the company group had made an IPO as the first company in marketing to do so. During the takeover procedures, Sir Martin Sorrell, the founder of WPP, was described by Ogilvy as an "odious little shit", and he promised to never work again. Eventually he became a fan of Sorrell, and he was quoted as saying, 'When he tried to take over our company, I would liked to have killed him. But it was not legal. I wish I had known him 40 years ago. I like him enormously now.' Ogilvy was made a Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE) in 1967. He was elected to the U.S. Advertising Hall of Fame in 1977 and to France's Order of Arts and Letters in 1990. He chaired the Public Participation Committee for Lincoln Center in Manhattan and served as a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 100th Anniversary Committee. He was appointed Chairman of the United Negro College Fund in 1968, and trustee on the Executive Council of the World Wildlife Fund in 1975. Mr. Ogilvy was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1979. David Ogilvy died on 21 July 1999 at his home, the Château de Touffou, in Bonnes, France. Further interestWebsites: Articles: THE 10 BEST DAVID OGILVY QUOTES ACCORDING TO BRIODavid Ogilvy was a pretty smart dude. Often called the father of advertising, he’s responsible for some of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time – success he attributes to his meticulous research into consumer habits. His philosophies on creativity and brand identity are legend, and many believe he is the inspiration for Don Draper, Jon Hamm’s character in Mad Men. In addition to building a wildly successful advertising empire, he also wrote numerous books, each containing their fair share of pearls of wisdom. read full article 10 Rules for Writing from David OgilvyFor over a half century, David Ogilvy was the dapper executive behind New York’s powerhouse marketing firm Ogilvy & Mather. He was also the original “Mad Man,” a martini-slugging, pipe-puffing male now personified by Don Draper and idealized by a generation of guys who, like myself, have gone on one too many outings to Pottery Barn. full article Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself to it. I was the French cliche.” ProfileLouis Jourdan, nom de scène de Louis Gendre, est un acteur français né le 19 juin 1921 à Marseille1 et mort le 14 février 2015 à Beverly Hills. Après avoir débuté en France, il s'expatrie aux États-Unis dès la fin des années 1940 et fait ensuite l'essentiel de sa carrière dans le cinéma américain. BiographyHe was born Louis Gendre on July 19, 1921, in Marseille. He studied acting at Ecole d'art Dramatique, and his first movie role came in Le Corsaire (1939), a French film that was never completed because of World War II. After his father, a hotelier, was arrested by the Gestapo, Jourdan joined the French Underground. After World War II, A talent agent recommended Louis Jourdan to the famed producer David O. Selznick, who cast him in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). It was Jourdan's first Hollywood movie and the only one he made with Selznick. It was a failure, and the director Hitchcock believed it was due to casting "The pretty pretty boy" Jourdan. For the next decades, however, "The pretty pretty boy" became very popular in Hollywood and matured into "The French Lover". In 1948, he starred in Max Ophuls' Letters From an Unknown Woman, playing a Viennese concert pianist who received a letter from a woman(played by Joan Fontaine) he once had a love affair with but no longer remembered. Then he starred in Vincente Minnelli's version of Madame Bovary (1949) opposite Jennifer Jones; in Bird of Paradise (1951) with Debra Paget; and as a pirate in Anne of the Indies (1951) with Jean Peters and Paget again; In Three Coins in the Fountain he played the suave lead as a predatory prince, and in 1956, he portrayed a commoner who falls in love with a princess (Grace Kelly) in The Swan. But it was in Gigi(1958), MGM big-budget musical directed by Vincente Minnelli where he played a wealthy bon vivant in love with a beautiful courtesan-in-training (played by Leslie Caron) that eternalized his image of French love of Hollywood. The film won the best picture Oscar and eight other Academy Awards. After the huge success of Gigi, Jourdan was being cast in similar role in a number of films, such as The V.I.P.s (1962), opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; and the Gallic romp Made in Paris (1966), with Ann-Margret. The late 1960s and '70s, with a changing sensibility toward romance in moviemaking, did not serve up the kinds of roles that Jourdan was known for. Which fit Louis Jourdan perfectly as he hated the Hollywood's typecasting. He was relieved to be able to play villains, such as in Octopussy (1983), Counterforce (1988) and The Return of the Swamp Thing (1989). Other than films, Louis Jourdan also worked in TVs and theatre, with theatre being his favorite. I must confess I love the theater best, though. I've never done a play I didn't like, but one often does movies just to keep functioning. They're less important to me than plays. After almost 50 years in show business, Louis Jourdan retired from Hollywood and lived in Los Angels. His last film was a comedy, Peter Yates' Year of the Comet (1992), telling the story of looking for the most valuable wine in the world, made in France. A fitting farewell for someone who is invaluable to Hollywood, also made in France. In July 2010 Louis Jourdan was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by France. Contrary to his on screen image of French love, in real life, he was married only once. On 11 March 1946, Louis Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique. They had a son Louis Henry Jourdan born in 1951 who died of a narcotics overdose at the age of 29 in 1981. And his wife Berthe Jourdan died in 2014. Louis Jourdan died at his home in Beverly Hills on 14 February 2015 at the age of 93, an almost comic coincidence: It seems he has taken on his leave on the day of love to match up with his "French Lover" reputation. BiographieLouis Jourdan est le fils d'Henry Gendre et d'Yvonne Jourdan, propriétaires d'un hôtel. Dès 17 ans, il témoigne de son désir de devenir acteur. Il est élevé en France, en Turquie et en Angleterre, et s'exerce en tant qu'acteur à l'École dramatique, faisant ses débuts à l'écran en 1939. Pendant l'occupation allemande, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il continue à faire des films, surtout avec Marc Allégret et Marcel L'Herbier qui l'ont fait débuter; flirtant avec Danielle Darrieux dans l'immense succès Premier Rendez-vous, fiancé (au moins par les journaux) avec Micheline Presle, sa partenaire régulière, Jourdan s'impose comme le jeune premier numéro un du cinéma français. Néanmoins, refusant de participer aux productions cinématographiques de propagande nazie, il rejoint la Résistance française. Son père est arrêté par la Gestapo. Après la Libération, Louis Jourdan épouse Berthe Frédérique, avec qui il a un fils. Repéré par David O. Selznick, l'acteur tente ensuite l'aventure du cinéma américain, faisant l'objet d'un grand battage publicitaire qui le rend célèbre avant même qu'il ait tourné un film en Amérique. Après un rôle central (proche de l'amant de Lady Chatterley) au milieu d'une distribution impressionnante (Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Alida Valli), dans Le Procès Paradine (1947), un film d'Alfred Hitchcock qui n'obtient pas le succès escompté, il tient l'année suivante, face à Joan Fontaine, le principal rôle masculin de Lettre d'une inconnue, réalisé aux États-Unis par Max Ophüls. Louis Jourdan mène dès lors une seconde carrière à Hollywood, où il joue des personnages de « French Lover » à la manière d'un Charles Boyer, avec pour partenaires Jennifer Jones (Jourdan est Rodolphe dans Madame Bovary), Debra Paget, Jean Peters, Doris Day, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, souvent dirigé par des cinéastes prestigieux (Vincente Minnelli à plusieurs reprises, Delmer Daves, Jacques Tourneur...). En 1954, il joue au théâtre avec James Dean. Comme des acteurs américains des années 1950-1960 pouvaient l'être, il est rompu à plusieurs disciplines et chante en anglais et sans doublage dans les comédies musicales auxquelles il participe outre-Atlantique (Gigi avec Leslie Caron et Maurice Chevalier et Can-Can aux côtés de Shirley MacLaine et Frank Sinatra) ou lors d'une scène romantique comme son duo avec Ann-Margret dans Made in Paris (1966). Il revient occasionnellement tourner en Europe, en France pour notamment Rue de l'Estrapade de Jacques Becker, La mariée est trop belle avec Brigitte Bardot, une adaptation en deux époques du Comte de Monte-Cristo réalisée par Claude Autant-Lara, Mathias Sandorf d'après Jules Verne, en Grande-Bretagne (Le Prisonnier du temple au côté de Belinda Lee), en Italie (le péplum Les Vierges de Rome, Le Désordre de Franco Brusati), mais continue de mener principalement une carrière américaine. Dans les années 1980, il travaille avec Wes Craven et interprète le rôle du méchant dans un film de la série des James Bond, Octopussy (1983), puis interprète le rôle de Pierre de Coubertin à la télévision américaine (où il avait déjà joué D'Artagnan, Dracula et un meurtrier dans un épisode de Columbo la décennie précédente) en 1984. Louis Jourdan prendra sa retraite de comédien en 1991, juste après le tournage du film Year of the comet, de Peter Yates, qui sortira en 1992. Louis Jourdan a l'honneur peu courant d'avoir deux étoiles à son nom (musique et télévision) sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard. Le 22 juillet 2010, Louis Jourdan reçoit la Légion d'honneur des mains de l'ambassadeur français Pierre Vimont. Il est marié avec Berthe Frédérique Pacart dite « Quique », du 11 Mars 1946 jusqu'à son décès en 2014. Durant les années 60, il entretient une liaison avec Denise Le Mentec, avec qui il a un fils non reconnu. Son fils, Louis Henry Jourdan, est né le 6 octobre 1951. Il décède à l'âge de 29 ans le 12 mai 1981 d'une overdose. Louis meurt le 14 février 2015, à son domicile de Beverly Hills, situé au 1139 Maybrook Drive, dans le Comté de Los Angeles. Further interestArticles Books
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