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Camilla Antoinette Clifford (29 June 1885 – 28 June 1971), known professionally as Camille Clifford, was a Belgian-born stage actress whose short theatrical career was highlighted by her performance as "Miss New York" in the Henry W. Savage production of The Prince of Pilsen, a role in which she impersonated a "Gibson Girl"-like woman.
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891 The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]
Gibson died of a heart ailment in 1944, aged 77, at 127 East 73rd Street, his home in New York City. [1] After a private funeral service at the Gibson home in New York, he was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [22] His widow died at her home in Greenwood, Virginia in April 1956 at the age of 83. [12]
A creation from the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), the Gibson Girl came to be viewed as an ideal image of youthful femininity in the early 1890s. Statuesque and athletic, she was a contemporary incarnation of the beautiful, desirable, and modern woman.
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Feldman appeared on the radio periodically. She is noted as reprising her role in a radio version of the play Counsellor-at-Law with Paul Muni in 1935. [10]After her stage career ended, Feldman's major activity was serving as president of the Ziegfeld Club, an organization of alumnae of Ziegfeld musical shows from 1939 to 1965.
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