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Her husband was convicted, despite claiming burglars had done the crime, and he hung himself in his jail cell.Дuring the 20s Munson wrote a series of articles for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, mostly about modeling and modern standards of beauty.В вЂњAll girls cannot be perfect 36s, with bodies of mystic warmth and plastic marble effect, colored with rose and a dash of flame,вЂќ she wrote. She kicked the Munsons out not long after the wife turned up murdered. Munson and her mother ended up staying with a wealthy Long Island doctor and his wife after a while the wife began to suspect her husband had fallen for the famous model. Munson in Heedless Moths, her final film, also lost. And Hedda Hopper, later to become Hollywood's nastiest gossip columnist, also stars.

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It's another movie that has Munson playing a model - this time herself - but Munson contributed to the story this time. In 1921 she made one last movie, Heedless Moths, which is notable for a couple of things. The movies were successes (I found a San Francisco newspaper article touting the arrival of PurityВ at local theaters, claiming thousands were turned away during the New York run), but Munson moved back to New York in 1919. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. Purity (Munson), a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. The film's synopsis gives you a sense of what Munson's films were like: The four movies were thought lost, but apparently a single copy of PurityВ exists - although it has not been shown to the public. The mixture of high art and nudity forced the censors to back off, and Munson's future films were all in the same vein - young girl disrobes as a high art model. In the film she appears naked a number of times, re-enacting famous poses from paintings. The movie was Inspiration, and Munson was cast as a sculptor's model. Munson's breakthrough was to be the first naked woman in a non-porn movie. Munson in Inspiration,В a lost film from 1915 By the time that Munson was in California there was already a stag film industry, possibly located in South America but definitely also taking advantage of the young girls moving out to California. In this case it was a recording of a striptease in 1899, with the earliest record of a hardcore porn film in 1908. This may require a bit of explanation: as you would expect, one of the first things to be made using a film camera was pornography. New to Hollywood she broke a major barrier, becoming the first nude woman to appear in an American movie. In 1915 Munson moved to California, probably on the heels of her experience modeling for the Pan Pacific Exposition statues. The photographer introduced Munson to the famed sculptor Isidor Konti, and from there she quickly became one of the most sought-after models in all of New York. Munson was 15 and dreamed of being a dancer one day while walking the streets she met a photographer who, struck by her beauty, took her on as a model. Munson and her recently divorced mother arrived in New York City (either from upstate New York or Rhode Island, accounts vary) in 1906. She's also immortalized in dozens of other sculptures around the country, and her figure made up 75% of the female sculptures at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 (the World's Fair, essentially).Д¬ivic Fame, atop the Manhattan Municipal Building

Perhaps the most notable is the USS Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, or the golden statue Civic Fame atop the Manhattan Municipal Building (most famous for movie nerds as where the Ecto-1 drives when visiting the Mayor in Ghostbusters). Munson's career began as a sculptor's model, and her likeness is enshrined in at least 15 statues dotting the island of Manhattan. While it's unlikely that you've ever seen any of Munson's films (she appeared in four silent movies, all thought lost until recently, when one was discovered in a French archive) you may have seen her face - at least if you've ever been to New York City. Her life ended like an existential horror movie.

Audrey Munson's career began like a fairy tale.

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