Madelon Mason

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Madelon Mason as the cover girl for Yank Magazine, June 1945

Madelon Mason (born July 4, 1921 in Cleveland , Ohio as Madelon Samandl , † September 14, 2011 in New York City , New York ) was an American model who was active in the 1940s and 1950s and throughout his career as Covergirl was featured on several renowned US magazines.

Life

Childhood and youth

Madelon Mason was born Madelon Samandl on July 4, 1921, the only child of Jerry and Virginia Samandl in Cleveland. Madelon's mother, who was only nineteen at the time, worked as a model before the birth of her child; her father was the son of Czech migrants. The couple separated just months after giving birth, but never officially divorced. While the father moved to Chicago , Madelon and her mother went to Lowell , Massachusetts .

After graduating from high school, Madelon attended college in Boston , where she also worked as a model for the first time. She had her last name changed to Mason and a little later moved to New York , where she soon got major assignments.

Career as a photo model

In September 1944, Mason was featured on the cover of the first issue of teenage magazine Seventeen . In July 1945 she became the pin-up girl of the weekly Yank, the Army Weekly , published by the US military . In March 1947 Mason became the cover girl of the renowned Life magazine , on which she posed with a hat in front of the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet .

Mason achieved great fame in the United States through her work as a model. Among other things, she was voted America's Cover Girl of 1946 by several daily newspapers . Mason also received several offers from film studios, but they all turned them down. Her only role she took on in the short film Dear Miss Gloria on the side of Gloria Swanson .

From 1955 to 1958, Mason was a model on the television show The $ 64,000 Question, produced by CBS Television . She then ended her modeling career.

Later years

Mason had been married to reporter Frank Foster since 1956. She last lived in New York, where she died on September 14, 2011 at the age of 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stella Star: MADELON MASON. January 2, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
  2. ^ Searching for teen face. In: The Pittsburgh Press. February 12, 1984, accessed July 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Week of March 31, 1947. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ America's Cover Girl ... 1946. In: The Deseret News. December 29, 1945, accessed July 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Dear Miss Gloria. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Madelon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samandl, Madelon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2011
Place of death New York City , New York