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| | Model Citizen - Suzy Parker (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Unlike her publicly mute confreres — of models, Parker once remarked, "You never met a skinnier, meaner bunch of people" — she was chatty, expansive, and outspoken on politics, culture, and social mores. |
 | | (A playful dissembler, Parker invented histories, so records often state that she was born in Texas and attended high school in Florida.) Her older sister, Dorian Leigh, already a successful cover girl, introduced Parker, only 15, to modeling doyenne Ford, who declared her too tall at 5-foot-9 but offered her contract anyway. |
 | | But Parker never seemed particularly at ease away from the still camera, and she abandoned acting altogether by 1966, having married Dillman three years earlier; the pair settled in Montecito, Calif., near Santa Barbara, in 1968, where they raised a family. |
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