Inspiration (1915)as The Model Purity (1916)as Purity / Virtue Heedless Moths (1921)as Writer The Girl o' Dreams (1918)as Norma Hansen
Audrey Marie Munson net worth is $300,000
Audrey Marie Munson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, known variously as "Miss Manhattan," "the Exposition Girl," and "American Venus." She was the model or inspiration for more than fifteen statues in New York City and appeared in four silent films.
Full Name
Audrey Marie Munson
Net Worth
$300,000
Date Of Birth
June 8, 1891
Died
1996-02-20
Place Of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Occupation
Artists' model, actress
Profession
Actress, Writer
Nationality
American
Nicknames
Audrey Munson, Munson, Audrey
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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I detest false modesty. For my part I see nothing shocking in our unclothed bodies.
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What becomes of the artists' models? I am wondering if many of my readers have not stood before a masterpiece of lovely sculpture or a remarkable painting of a young girl, her very abandonment of draperies accentuating rather than diminishing her modesty and purity, and asked themselves the question, 'Where is she now, this model who was so beautiful?'
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Fact
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In 2009, playwright and actress Elaine Kuracina wrote and starred in a play about Munson's life at the State University of New York at Potsdam, about thirty miles from Ogdensburg.
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She was committed to the Ogdensburg Psychiatric Institution for depression and schizophrenia - generally treatable mental disorders, today. She was abandoned and forgotten there for decades until a niece discovered her there.
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A model in the early 20th century, she was the first person to appear nude in a feature film, Inspiration (1915). She had a promising career as a model and budding film actress when she was in her early 20s, but her career was destroyed by a murder scandal of which she was involuntarily a part but in which she shared no guilt. Abandoned and forgotten by her family, she spent the last 60 of her 105 years in a mental institution.
She is considered as the first nude star, in that her roles in Inspiration (1915) and Purity (1916) both had her performing nude scenes as a leading lady. She was also nude in The Girl o' Dreams (1918) and Heedless Moths (1921).
