Babette March
{{Short description|Cover model for Sports Illustrated}}
Babette March (born 1941), pronounced Marx, born Barbara Marchlowitz, formerly Babette Russell, or simply Babette,{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068175/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213071338/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068175/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2011 |title=The Pixie Pioneer: Impish Babette March put on that white bikini and launched an institution| magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=7 February 1989| last=Lidz | first=Franz | access-date=2009-08-08}} who is known by the name Babette Beatty,{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Past-Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-Issues-Sports-Illustrated-Mick-Jagger-Andy-Warhol/ss/events/sp/021109pastswimsuits/im:/ydownload_ap/20090210/photos_net_ap_yn/1234321545/print|title=Cover model Babette Beatty holds the Jan. 20, 1964 Sports Illustrated|access-date=2009-08-10|work=Yahoo! News}} was the first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model.{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2113612/ |title=The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: An intellectual history |last=Curtis |first=Bryan |access-date=2007-11-13 |date=2005-02-16 |publisher=Washington Post Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC |work=Slate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127013208/http://slate.com/id/2113612/ |archive-date=27 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20060705-bikini-swimming-suit-louis-reard-micheline-bernardini-paris-brigitte-bardot.shtml |access-date=2007-11-13 |publisher=American Heritage Inc. |title=60 Years of Bikinis |author=Hoover, Elizabeth D. |date=2006-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113142052/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20060705-bikini-swimming-suit-louis-reard-micheline-bernardini-paris-brigitte-bardot.shtml |archive-date=13 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine| url=http://www.sicollection.com/html/swimsuit_issues.html|access-date=2007-11-13|magazine=Sports Illustrated|title= Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues 1964–2006|publisher=sicollection.com| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071020022357/http://sicollection.com/html/swimsuit_issues.html| archive-date= 20 October 2007 | url-status= live}} She was on the swimsuit issue cover of the January 20, 1964, issue,{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/swimsuit/coverfeatured/7854/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810204830/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/swimsuit/coverfeatured/7854/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 10, 2009|access-date=2007-11-13|title=SI Cover Search: 1964 swimsuit|publisher=Time Inc.|year=2007}} which has been credited with making the bikini a legitimate piece of clothing.{{cite web | url=http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/07/28/sunday_am/doc44bec4c0d94a5233525588.txt | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706155241/http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/07/28/sunday_am/doc44bec4c0d94a5233525588.txt | archive-date=2008-07-06 | title=The bikini celebrates 60 years | date=22 July 2006 }}
Early life
According to Sports Illustrated, she was born in Berlin and raised in Brazil, Germany and Canada. According to her website, March was born in Berlin in 1941, moved to Rio de Janeiro 1949, traveled from 1959 to 1961, lived in Manhattan from 1961 to 1979, lived in Montreal from 1979 to 1986, resided in Palm Beach, Florida, and Naples, Italy, from 1986 to 1992, after which she moved to Halfway, Oregon.{{cite web|url=http://www.babettegallery.com/bio.htm |title="Exuberant" "Inspiring" "Captivating" |access-date=2009-08-10 |publisher=Babette Beatty |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821200113/http://www.babettegallery.com/bio.htm |archive-date=2009-08-21 }}
Modelling career
She started modelling in early 1962, beginning with a shoot for Weekend Magazine.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} By 1963 she was working for leading fashion magazines.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} She moved to a Park Avenue New York City apartment; eventually, she and her boyfriend settled in New York City.
According to a Sports Illustrated retrospective and other corroborating sources,{{specify|date=February 2015}} in her prime, she was the "highest-paid model of her day" while working for Ford Models.{{failed verification|date=February 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d6IyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1470,1624707&dq=babette+ford+models&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124145209/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d6IyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1uwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1470,1624707&dq=babette+ford+models&hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-24|title=Three Girls On The Go|access-date=2010-02-01|date=1965-10-15|work=Ottawa Citizen|last= Klyn |first = Doyle|page=16}} In the mid-1960s, she was earning $85,000 a year.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JJ8tAAAAIBAJ&pg=1956,4328792&dq=babette+ford+models&hl=en|title=The Joys of Being Flat-chested |access-date=2010-02-01 |date=1967-03-18| work=The Montreal Gazette | first=Epstein |last= Anita|page=48}} Eileen Ford describes March as the first elite photographic model that she recalls with gapped teeth.{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/598714882.html?dids=598714882:598714882&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+29%2C+1970&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=That+Impish+Look&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825081224/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/598714882.html?dids=598714882:598714882&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+29%2C+1970&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=That+Impish+Look&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 25, 2009|title=That Impish Look|access-date=2009-08-10|date=1970-09-29|work=Chicago Tribune |last= Ford | first= Eileen|page=A2}} She was known for living the high life and for partying with the likes of Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol.
After modelling
In 1976, she retired from modelling, then moved to a {{convert|54|acre|ha|adj=on}} farm outside Montreal where she raised pedigreed cattle, 40 sheep, 80 chickens and ducks, three horses, 14 dogs, and 18 cats. She then married Dale Beatty, an architect, and settled in Halfway, Oregon, where she and her husband opened a bakery, restaurant, and art gallery.{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20000305/4008243/former-fashion-model-plunges-wholeheartedly-into-halfway|title=Former fashion model plunges wholeheartedly into Halfway| last= Young |first= Amalie | access-date= 2009-08-09 |date= 5 March 2000 |work=The Seattle Times}} She has become a highly regarded chef, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.{{cite web|url=http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/episodes/view/324|title=Episode 324: Thursday March 28, 2002|access-date=2009-08-10|date=2002-03-28|work=Oregon Art Beat|publisher=Oregon Public Broadcasting| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090806092827/http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/episodes/view/324| archive-date= 6 August 2009 | url-status= live}} Her renovation, restoration and rejuvenation of the landmark bed & breakfast, art centre, bakery and restaurant was featured on a 30-minute Home & Garden Television channel show.{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:ORGB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB08AF9EC44C0D9&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Sexiest Woman In America Goes Half, Not All, The Way|access-date=2009-08-10|date=1998-06-17|work=The Oregonian| last=Nicholas |first= Jonathan}} Her art work has been featured on the label of a line of wines.{{cite web|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:IDSB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=12129E69F1D93B00&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB579A3BDA420|title=Divas - of Treasure Valley winemaking| access-date= 2009-08-10 |date= 5 June 2008 |work=The Idaho Statesman}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522113401/http://babettesgallery.com/ Babette's Gallery - official web site]
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Category:American female models
Category:People from Halfway, Oregon
Category:German emigrants to Brazil
Category:German people of Brazilian descent