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Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is also featured as herself. The plot was inspired by Argentine-French writer Julio Cortázar's 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo", which was later retitled "Blow-Up" to tie in with the film. [5]
Blow-Up (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Veruschka von Lehndorff ... Verushka (as Verushka)
Veruschka von Lehndorff. Actress: Blow-Up. Her father was a Prussian count (Count von Lehndorff-Steinort) who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year, when Vera was three. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps.
Sep 25, 2014 · Blow-Up. In the fashion world, Michelangelo Antonioni’s cult 1966 film, Blow-Up, is best known for the brief, titillating scene in which Veruschka writhes on the floor as a leering fashion photographer — played by David Hemmings — eagerly snaps away. It’s the scene that transformed the model, who was 27 at the time, from Vogue cover ...
Mar 7, 2014 · Photo: Jonny Moncada. In the early ‘60s, the German-born countess Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort moved to New York and changed her name to Veruschuka — a name that would eventually become as iconic as her image. Her role as a writhing model in the 1966 film Blow-Up catapulted her to supermodel status; she would be dubbed ...
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Jul 25, 2017 · Veruschka von Lehndorff and David Hemmings in Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP (1966). Courtesy Film Forum via Photofest. Playing Friday, July 28 through Thursday, August 3.
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Veruschka von Lehndorff in Café Cadore, Munich, 1960. She studied art in Hamburg and then moved to Florence, where she was discovered at age 20 by the photographer Ugo Mulas and became a full-time model. In Paris, she met Eileen Ford, head of the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency. In 1961 she moved to New York City, but soon returned to Munich ...
